New Trends in Green Packaging for Food and Beverage: Shanghai Promotes the Big Role of Small Paper Cups!

Shanghai, an innovative international city in pursuit of sustainable development, is translating the concept of ‘green mountains are golden mountains’ into practical action. Against this backdrop, the seemingly mundane disposable paper cup has become a key medium for promoting environmental protection concepts and practices.

Disposable paper cups are almost everyone has to use the catering tools, we usually drink coffee and tea drinks are inseparable from the disposable paper cups. According to statistics, the annual use of disposable paper cups up to 100 billion, millions of tonnes of paper resources, and the key problem is that these used paper cups almost can not be reused, due to the inner wall of the paper cup coated with a layer of PE film to block leakage and other functional issues, resulting in the recycling of the whole paper cup is greatly reduced. Paper cups coated with PE film can not be degraded, most of the paper cups are discarded can only choose to incinerate, which has a clear impact on the environment and waste of resources! Disposable paper cups have the highest quality fibres and can be recycled many times. Jinguang Paper APP, together with BASF, Dubai City and LILO Technology supply chain partners, has put into practice the replacement of PE lamination with water-based coating. This small paper cup brings a new trend and hope for the green and low-carbon upgrading and transformation development of the circular economy, and brings new vitality to the development of waste-free urban construction.

With the March 28, the State Ministry of Commerce together with nine departments issued the ‘Guidance on Promoting High-Quality Development of the Catering Industry’, which particularly emphasises the role of the catering industry in solid waste reduction and resourceful reuse. On the same day, the Standing Committee of the 16th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress also passed the Regulations on the Construction of Waste-Free Cities in Shanghai, which addresses the current situation of solid waste management in Shanghai, and explicitly puts forward the following requirements: to establish a management system for the whole industrial chain of solid waste, to achieve traceability of the classification and recycling of solid waste, to promote the resourceful reuse of the sources of solid waste, and to promote the zero-fill landfill of solid waste. This regulation will be formally implemented from 5 June, marking an important step in the construction of a waste-free city in Shanghai and in the field of circular economy, reflecting the firm determination of Shanghai, as the economic centre of China, to promote low-carbon environmental protection and sustainable development.

Successfully held on 3 April in Shanghai Foreign Investment Association, the new path of circular economy - small paper cups big future, water-based coated paper cups recycling and greenhouse gas emission reduction practice seminar, but also for the innovative development of urban waste-free construction in Shanghai to bring the market innovation and vitality. The forum was co-organised by Shanghai Foreign Investment Association, Jinguang Paper (China) Investment Company Limited and BASF (China) Limited, and co-organised by Dubai City Group Limited and LILO Technology. The forum was supported by the Institute of Circular Economy of Tongji University, Shanghai Chengtou Environmental Resources Utilisation Co., Ltd, Shanghai Energy Conservation, Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Centre, Shanghai Research Institute of Quality Supervision and Inspection Technology, TUV Rheinland, Shanghai Jianke Inspection Co., Ltd, and the China Packaging Federation's End-User Special Committee. The forum also attracted the participation of representatives from well-known domestic and foreign catering chains and other related enterprises, Starbucks, KFC, Ruixing Coffee, Whole Family Convenience Stores, Shanghai Auntie, CoCo Milk Tea, Nova Coffee, Fresh Life, Yiho Tang, Shanghai Railway Materials and other well-known catering company representatives and industry leaders, to participate in this cross-sectoral synergistic carbon-reducing development plan, aimed at building a green and low-carbon supply chain synergistic emission reduction, to It aims to build a green and low-carbon supply chain to reduce carbon emissions, promote the innovation mode of carbon reduction of the whole industrial chain starting from recycling disposable paper cups, and jointly help achieve the goal of zero waste and all-around carbon reduction action in the urban environment.

Just like the small paper cup that the whole industry chain focuses on together, everyone can use this small environmental protection paper cup to play a role in environmental protection and sustainable development, whether it is the government, organisations, enterprises or you and me. Mr Wang Lexiang, CEO of APP Large Paper Division of Jinguang Group, appealed at the forum, let's join hands and contribute to building a beautiful China and a better home on earth.