467 million single, 657 million single, 812 million single ...... This is the world's largest electricity supplier Alibaba 's "double 11" in the past three years the trend of logistics orders.
An order to produce a courier package.State Post Bureau data show that in 2006 the national express delivery business 1.06 billion pieces in 2016 reached 31.3 billion pieces, 10-year increase of 30 times, ranking first in the world for three consecutive years.
This figure reflects the rapid development of e-commerce in China in recent years, but also reflects the rise of Chinese consumers online shopping power in 2012, China's online retail sales of only 1.3 trillion yuan, by 2016, this number soared to 5.2 One trillion yuan, China has become the world's largest online retailer.
Can not be overlooked is that the surge in the number of couriers also brought the expansion of packaging garbage.It is the view that express packaging garbage recycling rate is very low, online shopping more than the actual shopping generate more carbon dioxide ...... Some even referred to online shopping section as 'Environmental disaster'.
'To see that in the transport and distribution segments, e-commerce - delivery of the courier sales distribution than the traditional distribution model greatly reduces the intermediate links and invalid transport, with higher efficiency, but to contribute to energy saving.' 'National Post Market Regulatory Secretary Feng Lihu said.
China Renewable Resource Recycling Association waste paper Branch Secretary-General Tang Yan Ju said express all 'treasure', if the front-end classification properly, recycling model is reasonable, 90% of the packaging waste can be effectively resource utilization.
Reporters learned that China's express industry packaging mainly in the express waybill, woven bags, plastic bags, envelopes, crates, tape six categories.In addition, some transit bags, transit boxes, fresh food distribution incubators and other new Packaging is also widely used.
In the express packaging reduction, the most obvious change is the substantial increase in the use of e-AWB and the use of tape significantly reduced.According to the State Post Bureau statistics, China's express tape is thinning and narrowing, dosage reduction, a single express mail using packing tape Down by one-third from the same period of last year, and the express delivery enterprises saved 6.4 billion meters of packing tape in 2016. Meanwhile, the proportion of express electronic waybills in China has reached 80%, which is 70% lower than that of traditional express waybills %the above.
In addition to the extensive use of electronic waybills and the reduction of the use of tapes, our country's e-commerce enterprises are also striving to cope with the express spam by means of various technical means. The e-commerce platform Suning Tesco launched its 'Shared Express Box' Replace the commonly used corrugated boxes with reusable plastic crates for 1000 times. By 2018, there will be 200,000 injections nationwide.
Li Tianjiao, head of the rookie green action project, said that this year Ali 'double 11' is expected to use more than 700 million electronic paper sheets, and this alone can reduce the paper cost by several billion yuan every year.Application rookie intelligent packaging algorithm can A 5% reduction in consumables usage, saving the industry 41 million boxes a day, according to the figure of about 812 million packages produced on Double 11.
According to the data of the State Post Bureau, in 2016, the express delivery industry in the country can make up 30% of the direct usage of courier packaging. 'From the use of courier packaging in six categories, China's courier packaging is greening, reducing and recycling Has made great strides. "Feng Lihu said.
Nineteenth report proposed to establish and improve the green low-carbon cycle of economic development, and pointed out that we should expand energy-saving environmental protection industry.Industry believes that with the promotion of consumer upgrades, the future development trend of express packaging will be green, reduced , Can be recycled direction.
Recently, the ten departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinion on Promoting Green Packaging in the Courier Industry" that specifies the direction for the future development of courier. By 2020, the proportion of China's biodegradable green packaging materials will increase to 50%. The main courier Brand agreement customer e-AWB usage to reach more than 90%, while an average of each express packaging supplies reduced by 10% or more.
However, promoting green packaging express delivery is a complex systematic project that requires the relevant parties to play a subjective initiative to form a system and mechanism of government guidance, corporate self-regulation and social participation.
'Enterprises should strengthen the dominant position and the main responsibility to increase the effective supply of green products and services.' 'China Warehousing and Distribution Association Wang Ji Xiang, vice president, said the express packaging and packaging enterprises to reduce the use of refractory, refractory, volatile substances; Business enterprises should actively carry out the online shopping goods packaging reduction and reuse, in the e-commerce products and express warehousing, transportation, distribution, sorting, processing the whole process of promoting reusable packaging, packaging and biodegradable reduction packaging.
In fact, in Europe and the United States and other developed countries, the package approach is roughly the same, but these countries have implemented a higher environmental standards, strictly controlled from the production side; and established a more complete waste separation and recycling system; people's environmental awareness Stronger is also one of the reasons.
Jin Yiying, an associate professor at the School of Environment at Tsinghua University, suggested that consumers in China should further enhance the awareness of using green logistics and packaging, and should promote green packaging and recycling knowledge through extensive publicity and advocacy of green consumption, so as to create 'green delivery and good for all' Good atmosphere.