Aside from the plastic and cardboard wrapping the products come in, there are the boxes, the labeling and the paper wrapping or foam packing meant to protect what is nestled inside. It’s not unusual to end up with far more packaging than stuff, and the sheer amount of waste that results is staggering.
The increase in the amount of packaging produced, consumed and disposed as waste is only expected to increase as developing nations industrialize and gain additional economic power and as their consumers increasingly demand packaged products. China in recent years has become the world’s largest market for disposable plastic and containers and South Korea and Japan have been overwhelmed with packaging wastes that have proliferated as their
economies have rapidly industrialized and their landfills have increasingly filled up more quickly. Consequently, in these developing countries drastic regulations have been implemented to curb non-biodegradable packaging materials and to enforce empty-space ratios in packaging.
The increase in the amount of packaging produced, consumed and disposed as waste is only expected to increase as developing nations industrialize and gain additional economic power and as their consumers increasingly demand packaged products. China in recent years has become the world’s largest market for disposable plastic and containers and South Korea and Japan have been overwhelmed with packaging wastes that have proliferated as their
economies have rapidly industrialized and their landfills have increasingly filled up more quickly. Consequently, in these developing countries drastic regulations have been implemented to curb non-biodegradable packaging materials and to enforce empty-space ratios in packaging.
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