Increased Domestic Spending in Asia Drives Packaging Regulations Says New Report
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According to the report “Asian Environmental Packaging Laws – A Compliance Guide” available at http://www.reportbuyer.com/go/PWA00009 Asian countries have introduced a raft of new legislation, tweaks to existing laws and policy changes that will impact the way packaging is produced, used and recovered.
The report’s author, and 15 year packaging industry veteran, Stuart Hoggard says, “Before the economic crisis the export oriented economies of Asia, particularly China, had little incentive to legislate packaging waste, since most of it was being shipped overseas.”
With a focus on China and Japan, the report analyses the key laws, standards and packaging codes which currently regulate the industry in Asia. It provides commentary and places them in the cultural context that will see a common harmonised set of regulations implemented across the region.
Compliance with national laws will be mandatory and will restrict what packaging and materials will be permitted to be used and produced in Asia. Packaging of products produced outside Asia and exported to the region will also have to be in compliance or be refused entry.
China’s Green Packaging Laws
Following a 2007 Beijing directive to create sustainable packaging master-plan, the administration has introduced more than 16 new Laws and amendments since January 2008 that regulate package materials, production and packaging waste disposal.
These range from the law restricting the production of plastic retail shopping bags, new food-contact laws that prohibit colorants and plastic additives acceptable elsewhere in the world, to a draft law defining and restricting production of ‘Excessive Packaging.’
Amendments to the Criminal Code now mean that company directors and senior management can be held personally and criminally, liable for breaches of environmental regulations – regardless of whether they are based in China or overseas.
That’s just the tip of China’s environmental packaging iceberg.
“The implications for the global packaging sector are wide-ranging,” says the report’s author, Stuart Hoggard “Overseas companies looking to export to China will have to comply with regulations far more strict than the EU’s packaging laws.”
The report “Asian Environmental Packaging Laws – A Compliance Guide” is available from Report Buyer at:
http://www.reportbuyer.com/industry_manufacturing/packaging/asian_environmental_packaging_laws.html
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