Plastic packaging takes hundreds of years to degrade in the soil
According to the China Post Express News, the total length of tape used for express delivery in 2015 could even circle the earth's equator hundreds of times. These tapes, like ecological tights, have caused considerable damage to the environment. And these express packages, many of them do great harm to the environment.
All kinds of packaging flooding, there is no return, all kinds of packaging tape cut constantly disorganized, experts explain that the main raw material of plastic express packaging is polyvinyl chloride. This substance is buried in the soil, it takes hundreds of years to degrade, if burned, will produce a large number of pollutants, harm human health.
Xue Jianwei, associate professor of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Taiyuan University of Technology, said that incineration is prone to produce toxic and harmful substances such as dioxins.Even if the plastic packaging waste is great, but many sellers still choose to use plastic fillers and other excessive packaging. A Courier company said that most of the past with plastic bags directly set up on the good, this year in order to look grade, about 60 or 70 percent of the express are using cardboard boxes, which have stuffing.
Some sellers explain that they spend so much time packaging, it is a helpless move.
A cosmetic micro shop owner Li Ting: For example, glass this, once in the transportation process of some damage, our store will all go to compensate.
A large e-commerce Shanxi logistics warehouse director Zhao Yunwang: Because if not such a package, a lot of customers receive goods damaged, customers will not bear, express will not bear, the final cost has to be borne by us.
Excessive packaging will increase the cost of sales, the use of cardboard boxes, degradable plastics and other environmentally friendly packaging materials, meaning higher costs. So most sellers in order to save costs, will use non-degradable packaging materials. Although the use of degradable materials will be more conducive to protecting the environment and degrading waste, but at present, the express delivery industry does not have a unified packaging standard, requiring logistics companies to use environmentally friendly materials packaging.
Hangzhou Postal Administration Market director Zhao Guoming: Standards are still in development, these outer packaging of plastic bags, may use green environmental protection, degradable materials to do, but there is still a process to promote.