Wuhan Commerce and Industry Joint Initiative Does Not Over Pack

Yesterday, 31 commercial enterprises in Wuhan jointly proposed: Appropriate packaging, moon cake, wine, wine, tea and other commodity packaging costs should not exceed 15% of commodity prices.

Anti-overpacking initiatives include enterprises with hundreds of warehousing companies, mass merchants, Chinese business parity, Wuhan Plaza, and China Merchants Plaza. There are also foreign retailers Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Metro, etc., which basically include the major cities in Wuhan. Business enterprise.

They suggested that the use of moderately-packaged content should be incorporated into the terms of the company's purchase and sale contract. Manufacturers should join hands to ensure that over-packaged goods manufacturers do not produce goods, businesses do not enter, and counters do not sell.

"The wine bottle is more expensive than the wine, and the box is heavier than the product." Such over-luxury packaged goods are not uncommon in the market. Yesterday, deputy director of the Wuhan Commercial Bureau, Jiang Hanqiu, gave a box of “American ginseng”. The outermost carton had the size of a schoolbag, while the reference tablet had only 10 pieces of the size of a fingernail cover; a certain brand of liquor was sold at an equivalent price of only 300 yuan. With a beautiful bottle, the price jumped to over 600 yuan.

According to statistics, Wuhan City produces more than 5,000 tons of domestic waste annually, of which 20% are various types of packaging. "It can be seen that over-packaging not only infringes on the interests of consumers, but also pollutes the environment," said one person in the industry.

According to the person in charge of the Wuhan General Chamber of Commerce, over packaging, the United States, Germany, Japan and other countries already have packaging regulations, regulations require: where the volume of commodity packaging exceeds 20% of the volume of goods, or the value of packaging exceeds the value of the goods 15% Both are considered over-packaged and the government can impose large fines and levy package taxes.