A few days ago, the State Post Bureau proposed that we should strive to promote the green governance of mail express packaging and the ecological environmental protection work of energy conservation and emission reduction in the industry, increase the research and development and promotion of new technologies and new materials, and ensure the implementation of the main responsibility of green governance in the industry from the source.

According to statistics, in 2018 alone, China's express delivery industry consumed a total of more than 50 billion express waybills, about 14.3 billion packing cases, about 5.3 billion woven bags, about 24.5 billion plastic bags, about 43 billion meters of tape and 5.7 billion envelopes. After the "Double 11", express delivery will enter the blowout period of the year. How to achieve green express packaging is worth thinking about.

With the improvement of social environmental awareness, the public is not unaware of the harm of discarding express packaging at will, nor is there no willingness to take environmental protection actions. However, consumers are at the end of commodity circulation, if there is a lack of recycling around, naturally unable to actively act on environmental protection. In recent years, in the face of the harm of express packaging waste, some express delivery companies have taken action, which provides the possibility for consumers to participate in environmental protection, and also accumulates experience for the industry to explore environmental protection packaging.

There are platforms through technical means to reduce the plastic components of packaging and replace them with biodegradable components; To protect the privacy of customers through the implementation of electronic face sheets, reducing the waste of paper and ink; Through the recycling of express packaging, the marginal cost of products becomes low, and the environmental benefits appear; Set up recycling points for carton classification in express outlets, which can facilitate community residents to participate in recycling at designated points. In addition, some e-commerce platforms also encourage users to try environmentally friendly packaging with small rewards or concessions. These measures enhance users' sense of participation and strengthen people's belief in practicing environmental protection.

However, these efforts have not yet been fully rolled out and are only being tested in some cities. Although environmental protection is a big deal, under market conditions, enterprises are still constrained by costs. For example, the use of biodegradable plastic bags, the cost will be higher than the existing packaging; In the traditional express packaging, bubble film, plastic foam play a shock-proof role, to this end, in addition to looking for green alternatives, but also require to reduce stuffing, limit the gap ratio of packaging, which means that in the express delivery, packaging, transportation and delivery process, enterprises to further refined services to avoid collision damage to goods. For logistics enterprises that value the efficiency of package delivery, this obviously puts forward new requirements.

In the long run, the implementation of express green packaging still needs to follow the law of the market and seek a balance of interests between businesses, express companies and consumers. In this way, the new environmental protection model can be sustained and effective operation.

At the national level, especially the newly revised "Express packaging supplies" series of national standards, the express packaging put forward green, reduction, recycling three new requirements, these requirements are more detailed, including the material of the packaging box, the size of the express carton, reuse standards and other content. Known as the "new plastic limit order", the "Opinions on further strengthening the control of plastic pollution" also focuses on the express delivery and take-out industry.

Relevant national measures to establish specific standards for express packaging and provide operational reference. In addition, policies should support the improvement of the supply chain of environmentally friendly products and help reduce the economic cost of green packaging for express delivery. There is no doubt that the environmental transformation of the express packaging industry is the trend of The Times, and the transformation experience of the industry can also provide references for takeout and other new scene consumption, so as to contribute to the environmental protection cause of the whole society.

Bai Yipeng Source: China Youth Daily

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