Explosive courier during the double eleven With the rapid development of online shopping and take-away in recent years, while bringing convenience to people's life and stimulating economic growth, the environmental problems brought about by the rapid growth are also obvious. With the online shopping and take-away process, A large number of plastic products are put into use, and after a single use become rubbish, after a hundred years can not be degraded. 'White pollution' problem than ever before are grim, and the use of biodegradable plastic is an effective way to solve this problem .
In recent years, many domestic and foreign scientific research institutions and enterprises are devoted themselves to the research and development of biodegradable plastics, and have shown initial success.In other countries, due to some countries attach great importance to the issue of plastic, and even legislative requirements to prohibit the use of non-degradable plastic bags , So nowadays, some countries have achieved the goal of full use of biodegradable plastics.But in our country, because of the lack of mandatory requirements in this respect, and at the same time, the problem of plastic use is enlarged under the huge population base of our country, so today, plastic packaging-induced Environmental issues can not be ignored. So on this issue, our government and market attitudes is how? This issue, editors will be based on the domestic express market for nearly a year of environmental policy and business of biodegradable plastics research and development for part Introduction.
Emerging markets trigger environmental crisis
How many people cut their hands on 'Double 11' in the past November? According to the real-time data released by Ali on the "Double 11" day, the turnover of Lynx exceeded 10 billion in only 3 minutes and 1 second. At 9 Hour 4 seconds exceeded 100 billion, the day's total transaction volume reached 168.2 billion yuan.This is only the transaction data Lynx platform, there are some other e-commerce platform transactions did not count into this data .Through this With a huge amount of data, it is not hard to imagine the surge in parcels during the "Double 11." After this shopping spree, consumers have received their favorite items one after another, Our thinking.
Courier heavy use of packaging are: corrugated boxes, plastic bags, tape, air bags, foam pad ... ... These in the transport process plays a bearing, the role of commodity protection packaging materials, usually after the completion of a round of duties were discarded To the trash can, accompanied by them, is silently in a hundred years of time in a piece of land, some materials will also harm the surrounding environment.
According to the data released by People's Daily, the volume of courier service in China was 31.28 billion pieces in 2016, of which the total usage of plastic bags was about 14.7 billion while the plastic packaging was used in large quantities According to the statistics released earlier by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, there are 12 million take-orders from the US group take-out day. According to statistics, according to the consumption of 1 per order A plastic bag and a lunch box, daily consumption of about 24 million plastic products.Political noise gradually spread out of plastic products, some people began to boycott online shopping, to resist take-away.But to avoid the problem than face crisis, plastic packaging tape The disadvantages that come from can be solved by appropriate measures.
Under the crisis, seize the opportunity
◆ BASF introduced biodegradable courier bags
As a leading chemical company in the world, BASF is committed to creating a new chemistry role - the pursuit of a sustainable future. BASF presented ecovio®, a biodegradable polymer, at CHINAPLAS 2017 and November in May this year, The main strength lies in the certified composting properties and bio-based ingredients It is known that this plastic, which can be used in the production of courier bags, can be completely biodegraded in a suitable environment - as a member of the 'compostable' plastic family, Industrial composting environment, can be completely decomposed by microorganisms, enzymes produced by special bacteria can be broken down into flexible polymer chains of small molecules, these small molecules and other organic materials, such as organic waste, together with microbial digestion, and ultimately leave the water, Carbon dioxide and biomass.
ecovio® plastics are mainly used for the production of various types of plastic films such as organic trash bags, dual-use bags (first used as shopping bags and then as organic trash bags) or agricultural films, etc. In addition, compostable packaging solutions such as paper coating , Shrink film, foam packaging and injection molded products can also be produced using ecovio®.
The express bags made of ecovio® are on display at BASF's booth. This ecovio® degradable courier bag offers outstanding performance not only to meet customer needs but also to provide an environmentally friendly solution. It is reported that BASF is Is committed to working with major downstream partners to explore cutting-edge technologies in biodegradable bags that will effectively alleviate the white pollution problems caused by surging courier bags in the country.
◆ Blonde participates in Ali, Jingdong environmental protection plan
Completely biodegradable plastic can be degraded in a relatively short period of time into environmentally friendly substances under natural environmental conditions and is an important way to solve the problem of 'white pollution' caused by plastic, especially disposable plastic products, Based on the breakthrough of the key synthetic technology, the company has successfully developed three series of complete biodegradable high performance (Flex series, Bio series, AFR series, etc.) Plastic products, covering completely biodegradable, bio-based products such as different market needs, making it the world's wholly degradable plastics industry one of the most complete product.
According to the semi-annual report of Blond Hair released in early September 2017: In response to the characteristics of the domestic market, Blond Hair has developed a comprehensive and fully biodegradable plastic application promotion program that has achieved rapid sales of products such as biodegradable shopping bags, mulching film and courier bags Growth and key projects are progressing smoothly.At the same time, Blonde participated in Alibaba's "green move plan" and Jingdong's "cleanup plan" is expected to fully biodegradable plastics will achieve sustained growth in the future.It is understood that in 2016 Blonde biodegradable plastic sales About 7000-8000 tons, is expected to exceed 10,000 tons this year.
◆ Domestic biodegradable plastics industry accelerated
In recent years, under the stimulus of favorable national policies, the domestic biodegradable plastics industry is also growing continuously.China and other local governments have successively promulgated a series of policies and measures to encourage and guide the development of green and low-carbon industries, and the green technological innovation and the pace of industrialization have been accelerated. The green On July 28 this year, according to the "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Developing a Green Manufacturing System," and "Suggestions on the Proposal of the First Batch of Green Manufacturing Systems Demonstration List Notice "requirements, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology publicity '2017 first batch of green manufacturing system demonstration list', eleven models of biodegradable plastics were selected.
It is understood that eleven selected products biodegradation rate of more than 60%, the content of heavy metals in line with the national standards of degradable plastics, waste products produced per unit does not exceed 0.1 tons / ton.In addition, throughout its life cycle, the impact on fossil energy consumption Smaller.
Under the policy, keep pace with the times ◆ promote the courier industry green packaging
Increasingly harsh courier garbage problem has become the heart of the people, in addition to a public enterprise fight the first force, through the introduction of environmentally friendly materials to alleviate the courier package harm, our government departments have begun to plan solutions .2016, the State Post Bureau promulgated the "push forward Express green packaging work implementation plan ", planning express delivery industry green packaging work, improve express mail packaging resources utilization efficiency, reduce packaging consumption, reduce environmental pollution.
"Implementation Plan" made clear the overall goal of express industry packaging work, proposed to steadily promote the express industry packaging in accordance with the law to produce, save the use, full recovery, effective reuse, to achieve 'low pollution, low consumption, low emissions, high efficiency, high Efficiency and high efficiency. "The plan is clear that during the" 13th Five-Year Plan "period, we will make every effort to achieve breakthroughs in the green development of the express delivery industry in key enterprises and key regions. By 2020, we will basically eliminate packaging materials with excessive levels of toxic and hazardous substances, It is reported that the well-known electricity supplier Alibaba has introduced the entire biodegradable courier bags, the State Post Bureau also issued a document to promote the promotion and application of biodegradable bags in the industry.
◆ The study will adjust the plastic limit extended to the electricity supplier courier and other fields
According to the People's Daily, He Lifeng, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that "the implementation plan of promoting the green packaging of the courier industry" has been promulgated and is currently drafting the "Opinions on Promoting Standard Pallets and Developing Unitized Logistics." The next step will be timely adjustment Relevant policies and plans to work with relevant departments to study and adjust 'plastic limit orders' to study and formulate a series of implementation plans that limit the use of a series of non-biodegradable plastic packaging in such industries as electricity supplier, express delivery and take-out, and urge localities, especially cities, to increase Implementation efforts.
Promote shipment packaging into resource recovery policy
For express package recycling, "Implementation Plan" also emphasizes promoting the inclusion of express package in the scope of resource recovery policy, actively cooperating with relevant departments and localities to carry out pilot projects of sorting and recycling express package, encouraging enterprises to reuse plastic boxes, cartons and woven bags Packaging containers to enhance the reusability of packaging items.
When it comes to recycling, we have to mention this year's joint campaign of 'King Gate Sword 2017' and the convening of a meeting of the Central Commission for Reform and Development to review and approve the implementation of the 'Implementation Plan for Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Rubbish to Promote the Reform of the Management System for the Import of Solid Waste.' Among these Under the pressure of policies and actions, the plastic recycling industry in our country is leapfrogging from the disorderly state of "small enterprise, scattered distribution, poor technology, heavy pollution and low value" to "high value, innocuous and centralized" Of the green ecology, truly reflects the value of circular economy in the vigorous implementation of all aspects of the policy is expected in the future recycling logistics system, intelligent equipment technology, high energy-saving technologies and a series of rapid development of technology, waste plastic recycling process The system will be more and more perfect, the technology of resource classification and separation will become increasingly intelligent and automatic, the sorting will be more refined and the quality of the products will go to a higher level.
Conclusion
To solve the problem of online shopping and take-away pollution, multiple parties need to work together: government departments should implement environmental protection policies, conduct R & D and promotion of environmental protection materials and consumers should improve their environmental awareness and develop good habits. To promote environmental sustainability and leave Open everyone's efforts.