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Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of China jointly issued a key standard – GB/T 46685-2025 Technical Guidelines for Packaging of Fresh Edible Agricultural Products. As a supporting document to GB 43284-2023 Requirements for Restricting Excessive Packaging of Commodities – Fresh Edible Agricultural Products, this technical guideline will take formal effect on May 1, 2026, providing scientific and systematic technical guidance for the packaging of fresh agricultural products.

🔍 Key Highlights of the New National Standard: Green Packaging Shifts from "Recommended" to "Mandatory"

The Technical Guidelines cover common fresh agricultural products such as vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry meat, aquatic products and eggs, and clearly put forward four fundamental principles for packaging:

• ✅ Protection First: Effectively protect products and reduce storage and transportation losses
• ✅ Resource Conservation: Reasonably control costs and eliminate resource waste
• ✅ Easy Identification: Ensure packaging is clear and easy to understand, guiding rational consumption
• ✅ Green Environmental Protection: Prioritize the use of recyclable and biodegradable materials

It is particularly noteworthy that "green environmental protection" is explicitly listed as one of the overall packaging principles, marking that sustainable packaging is no longer an "optional extra" but a "must-do" for industry development.

Annex: Technical Guidelines for Packaging of Fresh Edible Agricultural Products

🌱 Greendomain New Materials: Anaerobic Biodegradation Redefines "Green Packaging"

Among various environmental protection technology routes, the anaerobic biodegradation technology brought by Greendomain New Materials differs from traditional plastic degradation methods. Greendomain's innovatively developed "degradation formula" composite system can efficiently enrich microorganisms and build an ideal degradation environment. By implanting the "degradation formula" during the plastic production process, the material can be fully degraded under natural anaerobic conditions. The final products are only carbon dioxide, methane and a small amount of inorganic salts, without leaving microplastics, truly achieving the goal of "coming from nature and returning to nature".

📈 Policy Dividends Unleashed: Green Packaging Gains Dual Impetus

The implementation of the new national standard, coupled with the introduction of multiple policies restricting traditional plastics, has brought unprecedented development opportunities for biodegradable packaging materials:

1. Comprehensive Upgrade of Domestic Policies

Systematic Legal Foundation

• 📌 The Eco-Environmental Code (Draft) marks the entry of China's environmental protection rule of law into the "code era". It provides long-term and stable legal guarantee for the development of the biodegradable materials industry, changing the previous situation where environmental protection regulations were scattered across multiple laws.

Standardization of the Domestic Market

• 📌 The Technical Guidelines clearly support recyclable and biodegradable materials, pointing out the direction for enterprise technology R&D.
• 📌 The Measures for the Administration of Operators' Use and Reporting of Disposable Plastic Products in the Commercial Sector strengthens the regulatory closed loop and improves the transparency and cost of traditional plastic use.
• 📌 Local legislation in Hainan, Shanghai, Anhui, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, Guangdong, Jilin and other regions is accelerating implementation, forming a regional demonstration effect and driving rapid market transformation.

Expansion of the International Market

• 📌 The Implementation Opinions on Expanding Green Trade specifically focuses on the import and export of green products such as biodegradable materials, helping domestic enterprises participate in international competition and extending domestic policy dividends to the global market.

2. Tightening International Supervision Creates New Thresholds

• 📌 Ban by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ireland: A comprehensive ban on oxo-biodegradable plastics, explicitly rejecting any "false biodegradable" materials that rely on additives to cause oxidative fragmentation, with emphasis on true biodegradable performance.
• 📌 EU Ban: Special law enforcement actions have been launched against bio-based filled tableware that claims to be environmentally friendly but whose plastic components cannot be degraded, covering 21 EU countries.
• 📌 Differentiation of Global Standards: The European and American markets have stricter definitions of "biodegradable", requiring materials to be fully degraded without generating microplastics.

💡 Leading Technology: How Does Greendomain Meet the Strict Requirements of Fresh Food Packaging?

Compared with common biodegradable materials on the market, Greendomain's anaerobic biodegradation technology has unique advantages:

• 🚀 Wide Applicable Scenarios: Degradable in low-oxygen/anaerobic environments such as landfills, soil and underwater.
• 🚀 Broad Application Fields: Applicable to various industries including plastic packaging, catering/hotel supplies, home/daily chemical products, sanitary products, medical supplies, children's toys and agricultural supplies.
• 🚀 Uncompromised Performance: Does not change the physical properties and production processes of traditional plastics.
• 🚀 Cost-Friendly: No need to build new production lines, enabling easy technological replacement.
• 🚀 Thorough Environmental Protection: Complete degradation without microplastic residues.

These characteristics exactly meet the multiple requirements of fresh food packaging for protection, cost and environmental friendliness. Greendomain's technology not only does not change the production process, mechanical properties and application scenarios of traditional plastics, but also does not require additional factory construction and equipment investment, featuring high cost performance. This is crucial for fresh agricultural product packaging that needs cost control, and Greendomain's technology precisely meets this demand.

🌟 The Future Is Here: Policy and Technology Drive the Green Packaging Revolution

On May 1, 2026, the Technical Guidelines will be officially implemented, and the green transformation of fresh agricultural product packaging is imperative.

Greendomain's anaerobic biodegradation technology not only meets the requirements for "easily biodegradable materials" in the new national standard, but also has the potential to expand to more scenarios such as agricultural mulch films and industrial packaging, helping the entire industry chain achieve green upgrading.

Choosing Greendomain is not only choosing a technology, but also choosing a responsibility and a commitment to sustainable development in the future.