Making a cup of coffee， Maybe the switch that turns on the work mode for many people every day.
When you tear open the packaging bag and throw it into the trash, have you ever thought that if you pile up all the coffee packaging bags thrown away every day, it is estimated that it can become a hill. All these proofs of your hard work (paddling), where did they all go?
You must never have imagined that it will actually appear in every corner of your life again. Don't be surprised if one day you're told that the bag you're carrying is made from a coffee bag you once discarded. Coffee packaging bags can also be turned into trendy items, and plastic materials are all around us!
I believe everyone is familiar with Nescafé 1+2. From the beginning of the student days, to study in the morning, stay up late to prepare for exams, to the first time in society, stay up late to catch up with the construction period... This small packet of Nescafe 1+2 has accompanied us through many days and nights. It is a part of many people's life. first cup of coffee.
How can learning be without "coffee"?
From the original conventional packaging bag to the current recyclable packaging, the packaging of Nescafé 1+2 is becoming more and more compact, lightweight, environmentally friendly and sustainable. Reflecting the development trend of plastic packaging since its birth:
After inventing plastic, the inventor found that plastic can be reused and not easily damaged, so it is very suitable for the general public to use as a packaging bag every day. At the moment of birth, plastic bags with such characteristics were indeed given the mission of "environmental protection".
With the development of the commodity society, human beings have entered an era in which the quantity and types of commodities have increased sharply, and plastics have gradually occupied the absolute main force of packaging materials. At this time, people gradually discovered the environmental problems caused by plastics - most plastics cannot be recycled and reused, and the disposal methods are no more than landfill and incineration. The plastic buried in the soil will degrade at an extremely slow rate, broken into small plastic particles, and dispersed in the soil; if it is incinerated, it will also produce components that pollute the atmosphere.
Plastic Waste Pollution
Although plastic has brought us a lot of convenience, the characteristic of "burying the polluted land and burning the polluted air" is really a headache, and it also deviates from the original intention of the inventor.
Using technology to return to the original intention of material environmental protection.
In order to reduce the resource consumption and environmental pollution caused by plastics, without losing its convenient and easy-to-use value, the current mainstream practice is to increase the frequency of repeated use of plastic products. In the field of food and beverage packaging, plastic packaging is efficient and safe, and cannot be replaced by other materials for the time being. At this time, finding ways to make these plastic packaging into recyclable and renewable packaging has become a research hotspot.
As a company that cares about the harmony between human beings and nature, Nescafé has always been committed to reducing the harm caused by its products to the environment. Developing more environmentally friendly products and packaging has naturally become one of the important tasks of Nescafé's engineers. This time, they started with the small package of Nescafé 1+2! The improved Nescafé 1+2 bag uses 15% less total plastic weight than the pre-improved packaging. Not only that, but the material structure has also been replaced, making it a plastic product that can be recycled and reused.
Schematic diagram of the material structure of the Nestlé 1+2 coffee packaging bag.
The picture on the left is the old packaging structure, and the picture on the right is the new packaging structure丨Provided by Nestle Coffee
A Fantastic Journey of Recycled Plastics
Do you think that replacing the non-recyclable materials in the packaging is all there is to it? No, this is just the beginning of the Nescafe plastic circular value chain and the beginning of the fantastic journey of renewable plastics.
series of processing. 丨Provided by Nescafé
When the Nescafé 1+2 packaging bags are thrown into the recyclable trash can, they will first be sorted, and these recyclable packaging bags will enter the plastic recycling and reuse processing plant. Here, the bags are pulverized, ground, and turned into small particles, which are then washed and dried to remove residual coffee and other impurities. These clean plastic particles are then further broken up. Finally, the plastic particles are extruded and deformed, reprocessed, and become the raw material for plastic processing.
After the above series of processes, the Nescafé 1+2 packaging bags are transformed into plastic processing raw materials and enter the factory again. When we meet again, they have been transformed into plastic products such as clothes hangers and eyeglass frames, which have become part of everyone's life, and even become a trendy and cool Nescafé coffee green bag.
Trendy bags made by Nescafé 1+2 recycling and recycling丨Nescafé provides
I didn't expect that an inconspicuous coffee package that you threw away would meet you again in such a cool way. Can you still find the Nescafé 1+2 in this trendy bag?
Protect the earth, start from learning to throw garbage
It's easy to say, but it really takes a lot of effort to change from a Nescafé 1+2 bag to a cool trendy bag.
The development and recycling of environmentally friendly packaging requires higher human and material costs to ensure the full recovery and reuse of packaging. Nestle Coffee chooses to undertake such a social responsibility, which is to guide more consumers to choose more environmentally friendly packaging and convey the concept of renewable resources.
In the fantasy journey of plastic recycling, we, as ordinary consumers, are actually a key part.
Marine creatures can easily eat plastic waste丨Figure Worm
Throwing away one less non-renewable plastic straw may save one more crying sea turtle; consuming one more bag of recyclable-packed coffee may save a mother whale's stomach from a piece of plastic. Walking through the colorful commodity society every day, when you walk into a convenience store, please choose recyclable packaging as much as possible.
Remember to throw the Nescafé 1+2 bags that you have drunk into the recyclable trash can丨Real shooting
Let's act together and contribute to the environment. Next time, remember to throw the Nescafe 1+2 bags that you have drunk into the recyclable trash can. With your participation, the plastic material will make a big difference!
Post time: May-31-2022
