If the plastic ban frees up market space for substitute products, paper packaging products will obviously be one of the main beneficiaries. Because there seems to be not many better choices than cartons, paper bags, pulp molded products, etc. To replace disposable plastic products that are difficult to degrade. I think this is the main logic of some common enterprises in the market eager to replace the plastic market with paper.

The question is: under the plastic ban, why do enterprises in the circle choose environmentally-friendly lunch box products mainly selling packaging?

Looking at the relevant regulations issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, we can know that although the "plastic ban order" is interpreted by many media as "total plastic ban", there are actually two main types of products prohibited: disposable plastic bags and disposable plastic tableware. Among them, the restricted use of plastic bags has been around 12 years since 2008. At present, the forbidden range is expanding, but the imagination space left for the market is not very large. With the explosive growth of food and beverage takeout, disposable plastic tableware has become one of the most important sources of plastic waste. Moreover, the proportion of replacing environmental protection products is still very limited, which means that the market space has not yet been finalized and it is competitive.

Undoubtedly, with the increasingly serious plastic pollution and the promotion of global plastic restrictions, more and more countries will join the ranks of global plastic restrictions, and plastic restrictions will become a global trend. In 2007, the State Council announced the implementation of the plastic restriction order from June 2008. The initial policy effect was good, but with the growth of demand for plastics in the fields of food and beverage take-out and logistics express delivery, the later effect was not significant.

Compared with the plastic ban in 2008 and 2020, the new national plastic ban has the advantages of gradual or comprehensive coverage or synergistic effect. The new version of the "Plastic Prohibition Order" specially introduced plastic substitutes. However, due to the large capacity gap of biodegradable plastics in China, the manufacturing technology and recycling system are not perfect, which can not make up for the plastic scale reduced by the "plastic ban". However, the paper industry in China is relatively mature, and the production capacity of white cardboard boxes and boards has increased steadily over the years. Paper products are expected to become the backbone of plastic substitution under the "plastic ban".