Recently, the volume of online shopping has been huge, and hundreds of millions of express packages have brought environmental problems. According to the monitoring data released by the State Post Bureau, in the six days from November 11 to 16 this year, China Post and express delivery companies received 1.12 billion express packages and delivered 790 million packages. So what happened to the resulting huge amount of express packaging waste?

In a residential community near Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, the garbage station is filled with all kinds of express garbage, large and small paper boxes, all kinds of plastic bags, tape, bubble bags, foam and other white garbage. The cleaning staff told the reporter that he had to clean up several kilograms of garbage every day.

Paper express boxes are mostly purchased at 0.5 to 0.8 yuan per kilogram, and are recycled and shipped to paper mills in Tianjin, Hebei and other places for reuse. Some plastic bags, because there is no recycling value, can only be treated as ordinary garbage.

In Shanxi, there is a similar situation, the average consumer because they do not know how to deal with express garbage, basically pile together and throw it into the trash can. Moreover, when people throw garbage, they do not carefully classify and deal with it, and even cause the recycling effect of garbage is not good. Many people say that they do not know how to reuse these express packages. Some residents also believe that these substances are likely to be mixed with toxic substances and harmful substances, so they think that reuse will harm the environment and human health.

Person in charge of Hangzhou express Co., Ltd. said that the plastic filler in the express package, plastic tape, etc., most of them are not degradable, and the amount of plastic packaging tape can be very large when the express company is sending the package.

Where do these express garbage go from here, has become a practical environmental problem.

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