The Environmental Protecting Gourd Packaging Material
With the raise of serious global environmental problems, it has become an important theme of the development of the packaging industry to research environmentally friendly packaging materials. Gourd is a kind of natural packaging material.This paper studied the gourds properties as the packaging material.It reported the present status of gourds processing which includes the dispose of the material and the ornament of the material.It also reported the relations between gourds and packaging which include the materials application in liquid packaging area and solid packaging area.At last ,it demonstrates natural gourd can be used and developed as native materials in environmental packaging materialand it advocates enlarging the scope of gourdsapplication in packaging area to conform to the trend of the development of green environmental protection industry.