Reducing courier packaging pollution can't rely solely on "posting"

Background: The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standards Committee recently issued a new revised series of "Express Delivery Products" series of national standards, according to the requirements of reduction, green, and recyclable, put forward new requirements for express packaging reduction. Standard requirements for courier bags should be biodegradable plastics to reduce white pollution.

The Beijing News published Wang Changlian's point of view: The 2017 China Express Industry Green Packaging Development Status and Trend Report released by the State Post Bureau shows that in 2016, the national express delivery consumed about 3.2 billion woven bags, about 6.8 billion plastic bags, and 3.7 billion. Packing boxes and 330 million rolls of tape. Correspondingly, the overall recycling rate of packaging waste in China is less than 20%, and less than half of the cartons are recycled. In view of this, in December 2017, the State Post Bureau and other 10 departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Collaboratively Promoting Green Packaging in the Express Delivery Industry", proposing that by 2020, the proportion of China's biodegradable green packaging materials will increase to 50%. Nowadays, the introduction of the “national standard” of express delivery packaging also marks that the express delivery industry will become the leader of the “packaging revolution”. The demand for pollution reduction, etc., also cuts the problem. In fact, some companies have taken the lead. In 2017, “Double Eleven”, all the well-known e-commerce companies have shown their magical powers, launched a shared express box, a revolving express bag, or launched a courier carton recycling service. In addition, there are e-commerce companies that use the “green warehouse”, which uses a tape-free courier box and a 100% degradable courier bag. In the long run, green, environmental protection and intelligence are the general trend of the express delivery industry, and the external pressures such as the rising price of raw paper and the urge of public opinion are also placed there. I hope that under the national standard of express packaging, the express delivery industry can transform as early as possible, and return to insist on saving. The initial heart of the resource.

Xiao Jiang thinks: I believe many people will feel distressed when they look at the hard courier carton and use it once. However, many merchants are reluctant to recycle courier boxes. The important reason is that the recycling cost is higher than the discarding – the logistics and labor costs are constantly increasing, so that the courier can transport the empty boxes back to the courier site and then transport them back to the distribution center. Until it is sent back to the merchant, it can be done without a piece of eight cents. Moreover, the boxes may be damaged when shipped. Therefore, it is useless to say that waste is useless, reduce packaging pollution, and need to do a lot of work. First, the packaging should be lightweight, easy to recycle; second, if the city is “not happy to see” in the three rounds of street-collecting and collecting waste, it should guide the establishment of professional recycling enterprises, and regularly send vehicles to residential areas; The third is to encourage large-scale e-commerce to use shared courier boxes to gain experience in balancing costs and environmental protection. Fourth, single-use packaging should support rapid degradation. Even if it is abandoned, it will not impose too much burden on the environment. Rise and do a good job of calculating to prevent unreasonable price increases, and also give certain policies or tax incentives to large enterprises that support environmental protection... In short, to practice environmental protection, Kung Fu must fight boxing. Among them, waste sorting and harmless treatment need to be improved together, and related technology research and development and upgrades are indispensable. Another point is that many “standards and guiding opinions” come from many departments, but in the implementation, local governments, specific units that deal directly with enterprises, and even community neighborhood committees that are close to the garbage classification and recycling line are required to implement. The details determine the results, avoiding the implementation of the management documents, the implementation of the implementation of the powerless, but also have a binding mechanism.