The 2018 China Express Industry Development Conference was held in Beijing last weekend. The conference demonstrated new measures for the green development of the whole chain, from packaged goods, warehousing, transportation to distribution, showing that the recyclable and degradable packaging materials can be transferred and upgraded in the express delivery industry. Great potential.
For example, in the aspect of biodegradable packaging materials, the biodegradable packaging waste can be decomposed into carbon dioxide and water in 3 to 6 months under composting conditions, without polluting the environment.
Sun Kang, vice president and secretary-general of the China Express Delivery Association, said that in 2017, China produced 40.06 billion pieces of express delivery business, and in recent years it has increased by approximately 10 billion pieces each year. The express delivery industry uses about 4 billion packaging boxes per year, plastic envelopes 70 Billion to 8 billion, 4 billion envelopes of documents, each express delivery has a waybill, in addition there are a large number of tape, packaging materials are staggering.
Wang Yuezhong, executive vice president of the China Packaging Federation, said: “The main problems to be solved in courier packaging are over-volume, over-functioning, and over-material. Among them, over-materials should use a single material, and it uses different composite materials; it should be used. It is easily degradable and it is not easily degradable.
The conference revealed that under the influence of various factors, it has already started to replace traditional paper and plastic packaging materials with recyclable and degradable environmental protection packaging materials. It is understood that in 2017 China's express delivery industry used 1.08 billion biodegradable files to seal, and chip green bags 1.02. Billion, more than 200,000 biodegradable recycling boxes have been developed.
The State Post Bureau has also encouraged companies to recycle express packages and to promote the use of eco-bags in 2017 to replace the previous woven bags and strive to replace 2/3 transfer bags with eco-friendly bags by 2020. The State Post Bureau also promotes electronic shipment of parcel shipments. In order to reduce paper printing, and hope that manufacturers will produce more degradable tapes, we hope that by 2020 more than half of the parcels will use degradable packaging materials to reduce environmental pollution and waste of resources.
According to the targets set by the country, by 2020, the proportion of biodegradable green packaging materials used in the express delivery industry will increase to 50%, and the usage rate of the main express delivery brand agreement customer eWay will reach over 90%, and the average express delivery packaging supplies will be reduced by more than 10%. .
In the face of the market enthusiasm for recyclable and degradable packaging materials, many companies have already started to move. For example, the packaging industry leader Prince New Materials has set up a number of new subsidiaries to cut into EPS buffer materials, semiconductor packaging and packaging materials and thin honeycomb paper. New areas for packaging materials. The company also stated that it will continue to increase the R&D investment and promotion of biodegradable plastic film projects, biodegradable gas ball buffer membrane projects and PLA biodegradable materials, and other biodegradable materials, and actively promote more than carton packaging. Visualized plastic packaging film with cost advantages. Ningbo Jifeng Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. has newly developed a blister packaging cushioning material using natural vegetable starch as the main raw material. Jiangyin Runda Company also focused on the entire degradation of packaging materials and developed a series of starches. Based on fully degradable packaging materials and products.