The excessive packaging of tea wine before the Spring Festival is still serious

With the improvement of people’s living standards, the quality of goods is no longer the only standard for consumers to choose their products.

The luxurious appearance and unique design will also make some consumers willingly pay out. After the same product was packaged in luxury, it immediately changed from "civilian" to "noble." Excessive packaging of goods still stands out in books, wine, tea, and health products.

In a large department store tea counter, we learned that buying bulk tea leaves can be accompanied by exquisite tea buckets. The materials are porcelain and tin, porcelain is relatively cheap, each tea bucket can be put 3 to 4 two tea, a pair of porcelain tea bucket is priced at 1400 yuan.

When asked how much the price of tin tea bucket, the salesman smiled and said that the quality of the tin is even more expensive, the cheapest one has more than 900 yuan, there are 1,200 yuan a, can hold two tea.

In a tea store, a luxurious gift box with a price of almost 10,000 yuan attracted our attention. Its red gift box is beautiful, generous and festive. Inside the gift box, there are two unique shapes of tin tea buckets carved with hollow patterns. When asked how many tea leaves were in the gift box, the salesman said two or two. We asked, "Is there a barrel filled with 2?" The salesman said: "No, one barrel contains one or two, a total of two two." At our request, the salesman took A wooden gift box with tea and tin cans is weighed on a scale and 2,500 grams! 2 Two (100 grams) of tea actually deserve a 5 pound box! In another brand's tea counter, only one box is installed 200 grams of tea gift box, gift box beautifully wrapped in a box with a painting of the Chinese painting process, tea priced at more than 6,000 yuan.

At present, excessive packaging of goods still exists in large quantities, and consumers actively or passively act as "big heads." Excessive packaging of goods in China has resulted in the waste of resources, environmental pollution, and the promotion of social unhealthy practices that harm the interests of consumers. Therefore, in recent years, curbing excessive packaging of goods has become a consensus of the society.

According to Dong Jinshi, executive vice president and secretary general of the International Food Packaging Association, although excessive packaging of goods has been rectified for several years, the effect is not ideal. The reason is that: First, bad consumption concepts are difficult to reverse. Chinese people have a good face, love vanity, beautifully packaged gift boxes to meet this concept of consumption; Second, the lack of laws and regulations caused the failure to pursue excessive packaging activities. At present, China has not introduced laws and regulations that specifically regulate excessive packaging of goods. Law enforcement agencies cannot punish companies that manufacture and sell excessively packaged goods. As a result, excessive packaging of goods such as tea, wine, moon cakes, rice dumplings, and health products has occurred. Nothing less; Third, public spending, public money gifts play a role in fueling excessive packaging. In the survey, we repeatedly heard the waiter say that the government unit purchases the “big family”.

According to media reports, China has become the most over-packed country in the world. The value of packaging waste thrown away each year reaches 400 billion yuan, and 80% of packaging waste is landfilled together with domestic waste. Dong Jinshi said that packaging waste is a waste of resources, but recycling it will cause secondary pollution. The cost of recycling waste paper is also no small expense. Recovering one ton of waste paper and recycling paper, only the utility bill and return charge will be more than 1,000 yuan. For every ton of waste paper recovered, 850 kg of paper can be made. Therefore, the recovery of packaging is not the fundamental solution to the waste of excessive packaging resources.

To curb the excessive packaging of goods, we must change people's distorted consumption concepts, improve laws and regulations, use public funds to save money, and give gifts. This requires the joint efforts of the entire society.