How far is green express delivery from us?

Forecasts from the State Post Bureau show that China will generate 30 billion express packages in 2016 and 50 billion packages by 2018. Behind the "explosion" of express delivery is millions of tons of garbage, and the development of green express delivery is imminent.

Previously, the State Post Bureau issued the "Implementation plan for promoting the green packaging of the express industry", which clearly wants to achieve obvious results in green, reduction and recycling, and strive to make breakthroughs in the green development of the packaging of the express industry in key enterprises and key regions during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.

"At present, our express packaging materials are mainly paper, plastic, glass, metal, wood, bamboo, etc., due to improper packaging and non-standard loss every year, or more than 10 billion yuan." An industry expert who asked not to be named told Chinanews.com.

In his opinion, at present, China's express packaging re-development and utilization ability is weak, packaging professionals lack of prominent problems. He stressed that solving the problem of express waste is a huge systematic project, which not only requires the logistics industry and the competent authorities of the express industry to issue normative documents, but also needs to provide special funds to support the research and development of packaging materials and recycling, and encourage express enterprises to recycle packaging and other measures.

Development Research Center of The State Council resources and environmental Policy Institute deputy director Chang Jiwen also said earlier, for express delivery, e-commerce packaging standards, there is no explicit provision. Therefore, it is necessary to establish and improve relevant laws and regulations, for example, to clarify the environmental protection standards of transportation packaging in the express industry; Clarify the quantity standards of various non-degradable materials used in packaging. In addition, the market behavior of express packaging can be regulated through tax leverage, raising the cost of non-degradable materials, encouraging recycling, etc.

"The implementation of green express mainly depends on the market, at the same time to formulate industry standards, packaging material standards, but also call on consumers, sellers, including packaging users to respond to environmental protection needs." Shao Zhonglin, former deputy secretary general of China Express Association, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Network that the realization of green express delivery not only needs to be promoted by express delivery enterprises, but also needs the joint efforts of consumers, the market and even the whole society. (At the request of the interviewee, some people in this article are pseudonyms)(end)

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