Not long after the delivery of the "Double 11" Express, the "Twelve-twelve" Shopping Festival has come again and these online shopping carnivals have produced a large number of express parcels. According to the data provided by the State Post Bureau, this year's 'Double 11' period may have exceeded 1.5 billion package, the annual courier business will reach 4000000000. Huge courier volume also brings huge courier packaging consumption, the resulting courier garbage how to deal with become a social problem to be solved.To this, the courier expert Suggestions, green packaging is the development trend, consumers themselves should also raise awareness of environmental protection.
In the nearly one month after the "October 11th" carnival, there was a clear change in the business of the Beijing waste recycling station. 'Carton prices were 1.5 yuan / kg in the previous period and dropped to 0.5 yuan / kg in the past two weeks.' District boss said a waste collection station told the "Workers Daily" reporter, he recently received a substantial increase in express cartons, cartons will focus on these courier shipped to the paper mills to sell.
Was sent to the paper mills to sell recycling recycling courier cartons 'home.' And many consumers interviewed frankly, after receiving the courier will be discarded courier cartons do not know where they eventually went.
In addition to the carton, there are usually plastic bags, tapes, plastic foam and various fillers in the courier package. The "Status and Trend Report of Green Cans in China's Express Delivery in 2017" released by the State Post Bureau shows that in 2016, the national courier consumed a total of About 3.2 billion woven bags, about 6.8 billion plastic bags, 3.7 billion crates and 330 million rolls of tape.
Zhu Lei, vice president of Qingdao Institute of Beijing Institute of Printing said that the overall recovery rate of China's packaging of waste less than 20%, of which less than half of the cartons are recycled. Express packaging plastic bags, plastic parts, the recovery rate Almost zero.Therefore, to improve the recycling rate of these express packaging for the reduction of courier garbage have a significant impact.
In addition to improving the rate of recovery, the express delivery industry is also actively reducing the production of express packaging.According to the State Post Bureau statistics, China's express tape is thinning and narrowing, a single express mail using packaging tape to reduce the volume of one-third. Has reached 80%, reduce the amount of paper by more than 70 %.In addition, the e-commerce platform Suning Tesco this year's 'double eleven' before the launch of the 'shared courier box' program, reusable plastic box with 1000 times the replacement of commonly used Corrugated boxes, 2018 National volume will reach 200,000, will greatly reduce the use of express carton.
Recently, the "Guideline on Synergistically Promoting Green Packaging in the Express Industry" jointly issued by the ten departments pointed out the direction for the future development of the express delivery industry: By 2020, the proportion of green packaging materials degradable in China will increase to 50%, and the major express delivery Brand agreement customer e-AWB usage to reach more than 90%, while an average of each express packaging supplies reduced by 10% or more.
Yang Jun, deputy secretary general of China Express Association, said in an interview with reporters: Express recycling and promotion of green packaging are complex systems engineering that requires the concerted efforts of all sectors of society.