Why are aluminium foil lunch boxes replacing plastic packaging?

Why are aluminium foil lunch boxes replacing plastic packaging?

According to the Biodegradable Plastic Packaging Products Industry Standard (HJ/T209-2005), plastic bags with a 180-day biodegradation rate greater than or equal to 15% are considered qualified, which is still a certain gap from international standards, EU standards and US standards. China has about a quarter of the annual oil production and imports for the production of products, of which about 30% belong to food packaging, disposable plastic drinking utensils, shopping bags, etc., which in turn has 40% of the products about 6 million tons eventually become "white pollution", causing enormous pressure on the environment.

According to public data, the total order volume of takeaway platforms in about 20 million orders, according to statistics, each single takeaway consumes an average of 3.27 disposable plastic lunch boxes / cups, which means that the daily consumption of takeaway boxes more than 60 million, a year is more than 20 billion, these takeaway food packaging boxes, bags are mostly disposable plastic products, basically can not be reused, the atmosphere, water, soil This directly or indirectly increases pollution.

Although there are already many catering categories that use aluminium foil boxes, and even businesses that specialise in stir-fry are also using them, there are still a significant number of catering companies that are on the fence about aluminium foil boxes, in large part because of the cost.

However, in the packaging industry, the price of aluminium foil boxes is not high, and with their good insulation performance and recyclability, they have been chosen by various catering enterprises and are widely used in a number of catering categories.