From its humble beginnings as a portable product, it has evolved into the modern, sustainable packaging that today combines display, portability, and publicity, which has evolved over a long period of time.
In primitive societies, due to the low level of production skills, all packaging came from natural rough processing, such as hollow bone tubes chosen to protect the bone needles used in sewing in primitive societies, rattan and leaves taken from nature for easy carrying, and gourd scoops made for easy access to water.
Because of the simplicity of this packaging and the ease of taking materials, there are still many applications in the present day.
In the late Neolithic period, as human productivity had developed considerably, the art of making pottery by firing in clay emerged during this period, a simple and easy-to-manufacture method that allowed the original model of reliance on nature to shift to the beginnings of self-sufficiency and the development of packaging.
This period is represented by a variety of rope packaging than was refined with thatched vines as the raw material for processing clay as the raw material for pottery jars.
During the Eastern Han period, Cai Lun invented papermaking, making paper, a packaging material that would later make a splash, and appear in front of the world for the first time.
Together with the maturity of iron smelting technology, a variety of refined packaging made from nature as raw material emerged, such as the emergence of various bamboo baskets produced from bamboo as raw material, and because of the skillfulness of this packaging, a certain number of occupational models have emerged, bamboo makers, craftsman, etc.
It was not until the Industrial Revolution in Britain, when machines replaced people as the mainstay of production, that the product became so plentiful that packaging as propaganda took the stage of history for the first time, and with the continuous changes in technology and leaps in printing technology.
In June 1992, at the United Nations "World Environment and Development" conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 183 countries and more than 70 international organizations unanimously adopted the International Environmental Protection Programme, formally establishing that "sustainable development" is the theme of human society.
The theme is "Sustainable Development". Countries around the world have begun to recognize the damaging effects of packaging waste on the environment and resources, requiring the reduction or stopping of solid waste emissions, their full and effective recycling, and the development of new materials for the benefit of mankind.
Nowadays, environmental protection packaging has become an irreversible trend in today's packaging industry and world trade.
Many developed countries in the world have introduced laws and regulations on environmental protection and environmental packaging as well as specific implementation measures, and the International Organization for Standardization has unified the will of all countries in the world to develop the ISO/CD14000 environmental management standard, which contains 24 standards.
