According to the forecast of the State Post Bureau, during the "Double Eleven" this year, the total express delivery business in China is expected to exceed10.50 billion pieces, which is conservatively calculated based on the average package length of 0.2m.. If these boxes are connected, the distance will exceed 300 thousand kilometers, which is close to the distance from the earth to the moon, enough to circle the earth seven and a half times.
Paper packaging, "no tableware" and shared express boxes ... Can these new measures improve the waste of resources and environmental pollution caused by express boxes? In order to answer these questions, People's Network IT Channel conducted a survey before the arrival of "Double Eleven".
The government actively guides green packaging to become an industry trend.
2017165438+14 October, Mr. Zheng of Chongqing received a courier wrapped in a plastic yellow box. After he signed for the goods, the courier immediately took the little yellow box. This little yellow box is a shared express box just launched this year. Mr. Zheng is the first user in Chongqing to sign for this express box.
According to the data of China Electronic Commerce Research Center, 50,000 such shared express boxes have been put into use in cities such as Beishangguang and Beishangguang. By the end of this year 10, the 50,000 express boxes have saved 6.5 million express boxes.
People's Network IT Channel found that this year, the green logistics action represented by shared packaging boxes is in full swing. In March of this year, the special fund of rookie green alliance initiated by China Environmental Protection Foundation and rookie network was established; On June 5th, JD.COM launched the Green Supply Chain Joint Action-"Green Flow Plan". Suning Shang Yun and other platforms have also released green logistics related projects.
This action initiated by these e-commerce platforms is inseparable from the policy guidance of government departments in the past year.
20 16 12 The Ministry of Commerce, the Central Network Information Office and the Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for E-commerce" and put forward the "Green E-commerce Action";
2065438+On July 22, 2007, the State Post Bureau put forward an implementation plan to promote green packaging of express delivery;
2065438+0716543810 On 2 October, ten ministries and commissions, including the State Post Bureau, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Environmental Protection, jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting Green Packaging in Express Delivery Industry. It is planned that by 2020, the proportion of biodegradable green packaging materials will be increased to 50%, and a special express packaging recycling system will be basically established.
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"Prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony and beauty are the signs of a strong socialist modernization country. The report of the 19th National Congress mentioned' ecological civilization' 12 times,' beauty '8 times and' green' 15 times. " Wang Mei, deputy director of the State Post Bureau, said at the 20 18 post office work retreat. She said that it is necessary to continue to promote the green, reduced and recyclable packaging of postal services and express delivery, and truly realize the transformation from "tape around the earth" to "green around the earth".
Under the guidance of such policies, enterprises began to explore green logistics more deeply. This year's "Double Eleven", JD.COM launched recycled packaging bags-after picking up the goods in JD.COM, the red packaging bags were recycled by the staff and returned to the warehouse for repackaging. Cainiao Network has started to recycle cartons in key cities, including Cainiao Stations in 50 universities. Consumers can choose to leave the cartons at the rookie station after receiving and unpacking. Suning.cn uses a "little yellow box"-a shared courier box, which is recycled immediately after the courier delivers it to the door.
The concept is weak, the profit is meager, and the establishment of the recycling system still needs to be solved.
Although green packaging has become a new trend in the industry, from the government to the e-commerce platform to the express delivery company, this work is being promoted, but there are still many difficulties to make tens of billions of packages really "land" on green packaging every year, and recycling is one of them.
Take the most traditional carton recycling as an example. Master Xu of Peking University Express said that cartons can always be recycled, but many customers will take unopened cartons away after signing for parcels. The courier sometimes reminds me, but it doesn't help. "Some packages are very small, so it is convenient to take cartons and too lazy to open them." Master Xu guessed.
When visiting the express delivery point near a residential area in Beijing, the staff also told the IT channel of People's Daily Online: "The customer decides whether to leave the box on the spot, and we have no right to force it. Occasionally, cartons can be recycled when delivered to your door, but if you deliberately take recyclable packaging every time, it will delay working hours and increase the labor cost of outlets. "
On the one hand, express outlets are too busy to recycle, on the other hand, the public has a shallow understanding of express packaging and lacks knowledge of garbage classification, which makes the establishment of recycling system encounter many obstacles.
It is difficult to recycle express packaging, and the profit of the whole recycling industry is meager year by year. 20 14 The first enterprise with Internet recycling qualification in China was launched in Beijing. "Re-life" has a special recycler, who regularly collects waste products at home, covering more than 1,000 communities in Beijing/Kloc-0, making it convenient for more than 300,000 people to collect domestic waste products. In September this year, "Rebirth" stopped, and so did many enterprises that entered the waste recycling field of "internet plus".
Weng, secretary-general of the Degradable Plastics Professional Committee of China Plastics Association, said: "China's express delivery business is growing very fast, but it is followed by more and more packaging wastes such as plastic bags, cartons, fillers and tapes." "At present, the global recycling of packaging materials is not enough, and about 30% of packaging materials are discarded at will. In China, more than 30% of the packaging is discarded at will. "
Coincidentally, the take-away industry is also facing similar problems. Since Chongqing Green Volunteers Association sued Baidu Takeaway, Meitu and Hungry for selling pollution, three takeaway platforms began to launch a series of environmental protection plans. For example, Meituan and Hungry tried to add the "No Tableware" option on the APP ordering page. However, this measure is often "cold" in practice. Han Han, a student of Jilin University, found that he often checked the "no tableware" option, and merchants still put disposable tableware for themselves. "Merchants are still afraid that guests will give bad reviews." Han Han said.
Facing the obstacles of recycling, Weng Yunxuan's point of view is that the packaging material itself is the key. He suggested: "At the same time of recycling, replace it with environmentally friendly materials and do both."
A few days ago, some enterprises that produce packaging materials are also actively developing environmental protection materials, and have made good progress. From the product point of view, even if no one recycles it, it can be biodegradable within six weeks. Compared with the traditional way of landfill incineration, the new material can greatly reduce the environmental pollution caused by express packaging at the end. For example, in order to solve the problem of difficult tape recycling, once the traditional tape is torn, it is simply discarded, and the zipper packaging is used to achieve environmental protection effect.
When asked about the profit of producing environmental protection materials, Li Yajuan, chairman of Jin Hui Zhaolong High-tech Co., Ltd. said: "From the perspective of enterprise profit alone, there is no profit in producing biodegradable materials. But we have to do it because it really benefits future generations. We are willing to go all out to participate in this change. "
"Double Eleven" is not only a national shopping festival, but also an environmental protection consumption day.
On October 20th, 2065438+061kloc-0, the "Express Last Mile Summit" sponsored by China Post Express was held in Beijing. At the meeting, ministries and enterprises in the industrial chain reached five "Beijing consensuses", covering all aspects from the government to enterprises to the whole people. Among them, the fifth item is "to appeal to express customers, users and people from all walks of life to actively advocate and use express green packaging, to be the promoters of the whole life cycle of express green packaging, to jointly achieve green development with low pollution, low consumption, low emission, high efficiency, high efficiency and high efficiency, to serve the construction of beautiful China, and to make contributions to the comprehensive construction of modern postal industry suitable for a well-off society".
So, how to mobilize the whole society to promote green logistics? On this issue, Weng Yunxuan, secretary general of the Degradable Plastics Committee of China Plastics Association, believes that at the national level, we should continue to support green packaging manufacturers. If we learn from developed countries, the EU's approach is to exempt biodegradable materials from high recovery tax; USDA gives priority to purchasing biological materials. At present, the National Development and Reform Commission has given special support for many times in 2006, 2008, 20 14, and carried out demonstration work in Changchun, Wuhan, Shenzhen and other cities. Weng Yunxuan hopes that in the future, the country can introduce mandatory policies for packaging in express delivery and other industries.
"Without mandatory policies, these things are still difficult to promote." Weng Yunxuan explained.
The first is the standard of express packaging, so that "good money drives out bad money". This year, the State Post Bureau revised two new material industry standards, namely, ordinary adhesive tape and biodegradable adhesive tape. However, progress is still slow in how to standardize the use of express packaging, green certification and testing of express packaging products and intellectual property protection of environmental protection technologies.
"It is very important to establish standards," said Xu Junhua, head of the rookie network marketing department. "Once the standard is established, it can guide production enterprises and middle-reaches circulation enterprises, and at the same time raise consumers' awareness of green packaging. "
The core of the difficulty lies in the promotion cost of green packaging. Xu Junhua pointed out: "If 50% of the e-commerce express parcels in Ali and Taobao systems are converted into degradable materials, this will increase the cost of 0.5 yuan, and it is estimated that an additional 20 billion will be added in the next five years, which is not something that any enterprise can digest alone."
Facing the cost problem, Li Yajuan, the chairman of Jin Hui Zhaolong High-tech Co., Ltd., believes that the government can give profits to enterprises through special funds, tax incentives and financial subsidies.
The person in charge of the "Green Action Plan" of the rookie network further told the reporter: "Besides blood transfusion, it is also of great practical significance to explore a reasonable business operation model. If all aspects and parties of environmental protection can see economic benefits, green packaging can be better promoted. "
In addition to financial support, Zhang Libin, the chairman of Wuhan Gorgeous Company, who participated in the "Green Plan" of green packaging for rookie, suggested that these businesses and users who buy and use green packaging should be encouraged in some names, such as setting a benchmark for enterprises and users and playing a leading role in demonstration.
In terms of consumer awareness, "I think it is entirely possible to promote the development of green packaging by establishing an environment that enhances low-carbon environmental awareness and continuously enhancing the green awareness of the whole people." Zhang Libin said.
At the end of the investigation, Zhou Xiao, a college student who has been paying attention to the progress of green packaging of express delivery, told People's Daily IT Channel: Our consumption today should not be a burden for future generations. I hope that the annual "Double Eleven" is not only a national carnival shopping festival, but also a national environmental protection consumption day.