In recent years, the explosion of raw materials has caused the boycott of the users, and the large amount of solid waste produced in the packaging has made the government departments have a headache.

Therefore, many people of insight put forward many concepts to reduce the burden brought by packaging to the environment. Some put forward circular packaging, some try to reduce packaging, and some enterprises carry out biodegradable packaging. However, in Europe and the United States and other developed countries, the "unpackaged supermarket" has been introduced directly.

This trend is really worth the attention of the people in the printing industry. So, what are these so-called "unpackaged supermarkets"?

In Austen, Texas, there is a small grocery store named In.gredient. The grocery store looks very indifferent, but because it is the first to carry out "no package shopping" in the world, it has been selected as the 50 green innovation list awarded by WWF in 2011.

In In.gredients, all the food and drinks are packed in different large containers and sold by weight. Customer to In.gredients when shopping, to bring food and beverages with Sheng into the container, weighing weighing, payment.

In Berlin, as the first "supermarket without packaging" -- Original Unverpackt (hereinafter referred to as OU supermarket), goods here can not find luxury packaging, only "no packaging" and "simple packaging". In the wine counter, most of them are middle and high quality wine, but there is no packaging. A customer bought a bottle of wine. He said he would go home with a color wrapping paper and a ribbon that could be sent to him. The commodity in the chocolate counter is also a "simple package", and its prices are mostly from tens to one or two euros to the civilian price. Even some luxuries are not packed here, with a paper bag at most.

"This kind of packing in the store has been carried out for many years". Muller, a supermarket manager, told reporters that according to the German Packaging Law, the volume of packaging is obviously higher than that of the commodity itself, and the packaging cost is obviously higher than that of the commodity 30%. It should be judged as a "commercial fraud" that infringes the consumers' rights and interests. 10% The more luxurious the packaging is, the more the packaging will be paid by the manufacturer.

If it's best for a consumer to buy something in your own container, you may not take anything away. Before you go shopping, weigh the container with your own container, so it is convenient to reduce the weight when paying the bill. What if the consumer is careless and forgot to take the jar and is waiting to buy it home in a hurry? The OU supermarket will provide consumers with a clean multi - purpose container, which only needs a temporary delivery of the deposit to be cleaned and returned.

Is it not convenient to take the outer packing bag? It doesn't matter. The supermarket also offers recyclable canvas bags and paper bags.

"Unpacking" seems to be a challenge for modern people with convenient convenience. But the guests to patronize the OU supermarket to overcome this point have style all their own, someone with a hat nuts away, someone with a barrel to buy pasta Pringles chips.

OU supermarket is not only accepted by people, but also very hot in business. The concept of "zero waste", which it advocates, also penetrates every link of the supply chain.

At present, there are 5 such zero packing shopping shops in Europe, and the other 4 are:

Unverpackt-Laden in Kiel in Germany

Day by Day, France

Italy Effecorta

LOS Market, Copenhagen

In China, some e-commerce giants such as rookie, Jingdong, Shun Feng and suning.com are also making no effort to reduce packaging and even explore unpackaged solutions.

Facing the rising and rising raw materials, facing the great environmental pressure, facing the terrible trend of "unpacking", Chinese printer needs to be prepared as soon as possible.