Source: billion euros
Today, express delivery has become a "necessity" in life and work. With the increase in the geometrical number of express parcels and the environmental issues associated with the express logistics industry, it has become increasingly prominent. The State Post Bureau recently issued the "Green Packaging Guide for Express Delivery Industry (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as "Guide"), which stipulates the goal of green packaging work in the express delivery industry.
So, what are the problems facing the packaging of China's express delivery industry? What are the green packaging standards and what technologies are involved? What are the requirements of the Guide? How should the express delivery and packaging manufacturers implement the Guide?
High recycling cost and low recovery rate
In 2018, China's express delivery business exceeded 50 billion pieces, ranking first in the world for five consecutive years. The State Post Bureau proposed that 20 billion express delivery services should be completed in 2019.
Li Tianjiao, a rookie green action expert, said in an interview with reporters that the parcels delivered to consumers need to consume woven bags, plastic bags, packing boxes, tapes, express delivery orders and other consumables. The packaging is waste generated in the express logistics industry. One of the most links.
According to data from the State Post Bureau, in 2016 alone, China's express delivery industry consumed 3.2 billion woven bags, 8.6 billion packaging boxes and 330 million rolls of tape. As a result, in China's megacities, the increase in express packaging waste has accounted for 93% of the increase in domestic waste, and in some large cities it is 85%-90%. These packaging wastes are mainly paper and plastic.
“National policies and corporate measures can only reduce the amount of courier packaged garbage, and it is impossible to solve all the problems of express packaging.†Wang Jixiang, vice president of China Warehousing and Distribution Association, said that the recycling cost is high, the recovery rate is low, and the current garbage in China The classification system has not been fully established, and courier waste is not conducive to recycling.
Li Tianjiao also said that from the current point of view, packaging waste disposal is still in the bottleneck period. Among them, paper packaging has a relatively complete recycling mechanism. In 2017, about 90% of paper packaging materials were reused in various ways. "But the express delivery industry has to face many challenges to reduce environmental impact. For example, plastic bags such as bags and tapes used for express parcels can only be used for incineration power generation or landfill disposal, and cannot be effectively recycled. Therefore, according to the Guidelines "Requirement, promotion of green packaging is imperative."
Enhance the research and development of new materials and establish an efficient and intelligent green solution
Due to various problems in the current packaging, the Guide requires express delivery companies to add fully biodegradable plastics when purchasing and using plastic packaging, and explore new types of courier containers such as revolving express boxes and shared express boxes to gradually reduce the amount of packaging consumables. Promote the recycling and reuse of packaging materials, "the number of recycling times is not less than 20 times."
Li Tianjiao said that through the research and development of new materials, express delivery companies adopt environmentally friendly and easy-to-recycle packaging solutions to promote packaging reduction, which can effectively reduce over-packaging and waste of resources in the express packaging process. In 2016, as a open logistics network platform, the rookie and the global logistics partners such as Yuantong and Zhongtong launched the “Green Action Plan†for logistics, and established a green warehouse with the collaborative mode and smart technology input of the intelligent logistics backbone network. Green packaging, green recycling, and green intelligence are the main green solutions to promote the transformation and upgrading of the logistics industry to green logistics.
Currently, according to the Guide, the logistics industry is accelerating the upgrading of green packaging standards and solutions, and a large number of innovative environmental protection measures and products have been launched in China. Such as China Post's development of degradable plastic packaging bags, environmentally friendly packaging supplies; Suning Logistics launched a shared express box, cold chain circulation box, zero plastic carton; China Green Express enabled green circulation canvas bags, degradable packaging bags, etc., effectively alleviated The pollution problem caused by traditional packaging.
According to the preliminary statistics of the postal department, as of now, the major brand express delivery companies can save at least 5.5 billion express packaging products every year by adopting measures such as reducing over-packaging and recycling cartons; the popularity of electronic face sheets has increased to 92%, at least annually. Save 31.4 billion sheets of traditional paper.
Exploring the establishment of a blacklist system to promote the establishment of a joint disciplinary mechanism
In addition to technology leadership, corporate self-discipline, and consumer awareness of environmental protection, national-level supervision and incentives are also very important. Ma Junsheng, director of the State Post Bureau, stressed that focusing on reducing and reusing targets, and tackling the battle against pollution prevention and control; promoting the implementation of the national green development structural tax reduction and other preferential policies, and strengthening the supervision, inspection and assessment of the implementation of the industry eco-environmental responsibility list.
Jin Jinghua, director of the Policy and Regulation Department of the State Post Bureau, also said that it will cooperate with relevant departments to carry out green certification of express packaging products, and guide and support e-commerce, express delivery enterprises and consumers to use green certified express packaging products. "At the same time, we will increase the quality supervision and inspection and notification of green express packaging products, incorporate green packaging into the green product credit system, explore the establishment of a blacklist system, and promote the establishment of a joint disciplinary mechanism."
The State Post Bureau announced that it has added Zhejiang Jiaxing, Xiamen, Fujian, Qingdao, Henan, Hebi, and Hubei Enshi as green express comprehensive pilot cities, and launched a recyclable transfer bag (box) in the express delivery enterprise to replace the disposable plastic woven bag. .
However, “the use of green packaging and recycled materials will increase the cost of corporate investment, which may result in some costs being passed on to the consumer side,†said Xie Yuwen, an expert member of the New Technology Promotion Branch of the China Communications and Transportation Association.
"The ordinary plastic bags we use now need 200 years to achieve degradation under natural conditions. After using biodegradable plastic express bags, the composting method can achieve more than 90% degradation in half a year. If the temperature and humidity are suitable, it can be used within 1 year. All of them are degraded into carbon dioxide and water, which is a truly environmentally friendly packaging bag.†The Deputy Director of the Inspection Center of the Postal Science and Technology Planning Institute, Ning, for example, but the cost of using biodegradable plastic packaging bags may be the existing packaging bags. More than double, this poses new challenges to the cost control of the express delivery industry. It also requires consumers to raise their awareness of green environmental protection and pay more for the “environmental express delivery†that may be implemented in the future.
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