The "multi-point force" smooth express packaging green cycle can continue to promote the large-scale application pilot of circular express packaging
November 17, 2023 10:24 Source: CCTV network Large font small font
CCTV news: With the arrival of the year-end consumption season, the postal express industry has also ushered in the peak season of business, the State Post Bureau data show that in November, the national average daily express collection business volume of more than 500 million. A large number of express delivery has produced a lot of custom pastry packaging boxes packaging, where do these custom pastry packaging boxes packages go? Is the idea of recycling widespread? Look at the report.
At a Courier station in Beijing's Chaoyang district, reporters saw shelves full of large and small express packages. After many people open the custom pastry packaging boxes package at the site, they will put the package into the green recycling box in front of them. The staff is responsible for sorting and recycling these materials, cartons and other intact packaging can be used in the next delivery, and those that cannot be used are handed over to the recycling company for re-processing and recycling.
The person in charge of the site calculated an account to the reporter, and each carton can be recycled once to reduce carbon dioxide emissions of 37 grams. Since entering the peak season of express business, the average daily carbon reduction of the site is about 5.5 kg.
As an important part of the green governance of the express delivery industry, is the concept of packaging recycling popularized? With the question, the reporter conducted a survey in a number of residential areas in Beijing.
Mr. Lu: If I encounter the quality of the express package, I will leave it and then use it the next time I send the express.
Citizen Mr. Bai: I usually pick up the express, (packaging) are put in the recycling box, for environmental protection.
In the interview, the reporter learned that most citizens are willing to participate in the recycling of express custom pastry packaging boxes packaging. However, due to the few recycling facilities and limited recycling channels, many people will put the packaging in the trash can of the community for convenience, waiting for the sanitation personnel to deal with it. Broadening recycling channels and enriching recycling methods are still important means to enhance the green governance capacity of express custom pastry packaging boxes packaging.
The pilot scale application of recyclable express custom pastry packaging boxes packaging continued to advance.
In fact, starting from 2021, the State Post Bureau, in conjunction with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce and other departments, has carried out pilot work on the large-scale application of recyclable express packaging. Initial results have been achieved in enriching application scenarios such as government affairs, 3C, and fresh, expanding recycling methods such as door-to-door recycling and post station recycling, and updating product materials and technical models.
In the campus of Bohai University in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, in front of the postal express point, the green recycling box just put into use is a corrugated box intelligent recycling device jointly developed by Liaoning Post and Jinzhou Bohai University, in addition to cartons, it can also recycle books and plastic bottles.
Liaoning Post Office Jinzhou branch staff Tian Yufeng: these can be reused out of the secondary reuse, secondary reuse, can not be reused thrown into the inside, basically three or four days after the full, the above hydraulic pressure will automatically compress, after compression we will take it to the recycling agency.
In the warehouse of the e-commerce platform, the reporter saw the intelligent packaging technology of the product packaging line, when the target gun scans the product, the background system will automatically calculate the appropriate type of packaging box that meets the volume of the product, and reduce the use of packaging materials by optimizing the packaging structure.
In addition to e-commerce platforms, express delivery companies are also participating in the research and development and promotion of packaging products that are easy to recycle and regenerate at the end. In a Courier outlet in Shanghai, the reporter saw a special waste plastic recycling point. Express outlets will be removed from the customer's waste plastic packaging recycling and sent to a fixed recycling enterprise, according to the technical requirements, the newly produced packaging contains 30% recycled plastic, and will be returned to the Courier enterprise for use, forming a set of recycling closed-loop packaging scale application mode.
Zhao Guojun, Director of Postal Development Research Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: Green packaging and recycling and other green measures parallel, in the cost reduction, efficiency, emission reduction at the same time, more importantly, the high-level development capacity of the industry service economy will be further enhanced.
Express packaging green governance still need to work together
Although the national postal industry regulatory authorities, express delivery companies, e-commerce platforms, etc. are conducting research and development and promoting the governance of packaging, the packaging problems generated by hundreds of millions of packages every day are also issues that the industry must face and need to be solved. Express packaging green governance "blocking point" where? How to improve the level of recycling? Back to the reporter's research.
Experts told reporters that at present, China's express industry low-carbon green development awareness gradually increased, express packaging green governance work has achieved initial results. However, compared with the requirements of high-quality development, there are still shortcomings in the aspects of systematicness, synergy and effectiveness.
Zhao Guojun, director of Postal Development Research Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: The first is that the cost of green custom pastry packaging boxes packaging is too high. For example, recyclable packaging boxes, the procurement cost is higher than the carton of the same specification, coupled with recovery, cleaning, loss, allocation and other operational management costs, the burden of enterprises is bound to increase. At the same time, another aspect is that the chain of upstream and downstream coordination of custom pastry packaging boxes packaging production, e-commerce platforms, and express delivery companies has not yet been established.
In order to improve the green governance capacity of express custom pastry packaging boxes packaging, at the beginning of this year, the State Post Bureau implemented the green development "9218" project, which made it clear that by the end of the year, the proportion of e-commerce express packages no longer reached 90%, and further promoted the control of excessive packaging and plastic pollution, and the use of recyclable express packages reached 1 billion mail express packages. 800 million corrugated boxes with good quality will be recycled and reused. In this regard, experts said that it is still necessary to promote the green and circular development of express custom pastry packaging boxes packaging.
Zhao Guojun, Director of Postal Development Research Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: The overall need for the joint efforts of the government, enterprises and the public. At the government level, we should increase the scope and intensity of sampling and testing of express packaging, and constantly strengthen the source control of express packaging. At the enterprise level, we should adhere to the concept of green development and promote the application of packaging tape, corrugated boxes and other materials. At the public level, we should establish green environmental protection concepts and actively use green express custom pastry packaging boxes packaging.
New progress has been made in green governance of express packaging.
According to the data of the State Post Bureau, as of the end of September, the proportion of e-commerce express packages no longer exceeds 90%, the use of recyclable packaging of mail express more than 800 million, set up standard packaging waste recycling devices of postal express outlets reached 127,000, recycling quality intact corrugated boxes more than 600 million. This shows that the concept of green development has accelerated into the entire development process of the express delivery industry.
In recent years, China's express delivery business has repeatedly hit new highs. Especially since March this year, the monthly business volume of the express delivery industry has exceeded 10 billion pieces, of which the year-on-year growth rate of business volume in the second quarter and the third quarter has maintained double digits. Tens of thousands of express packages have brought increasing packaging, and the annual consumption of paper in the express industry has shown a rapid growth trend, and many express packages still have excessive packaging, which has caused no small pressure on the environment.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Party proposed that we should implement a comprehensive conservation strategy, promote the economical and intensive use of various resources, and accelerate the construction of a waste recycling system. In recent years, the relevant departments have accelerated the promotion of green express packaging management in terms of law formulation, standard introduction, policy guidance, and the subsequent implementation of green projects, and put forward quantitative requirements for the recycling of express packaging such as recyclable transit bags and recyclable express boxes.
From the data point of view, the green governance of express packaging has achieved remarkable results, but why are many people's feelings about express green custom pastry packaging boxes packaging not obvious in daily life? This also starts with the current express waste packaging. At present, express waste packaging is mainly composed of commodity packaging, e-commerce packaging and delivery service packaging. From the material point of view, express waste packaging is divided into two types: paper and plastic. Among them, envelopes, packaging boxes and other paper packaging waste, through social recycling, network recycling, post recycling and other ways, more than 90% can achieve resource utilization.
However, compared with the continuous rise of express business volume, the use of recyclable packaging is still less overall. The main reasons are as follows: first, the packaging cost is high, taking the recyclable packing box as an example, the procurement cost is 15 times to 20 times that of the same specification carton, coupled with recovery, cleaning, loss, allocation and other operational management costs, compared with ordinary cartons, the average single use cost is greatly increased; Second, it is difficult to recycle at the consumer end, some consumers are not aware of the green concept, have not yet established the habit of circular express packaging, and do not understand and cooperate with recyclable packaging recycling is more common, and it is difficult to form large-scale use and recycling.
There is also a factor that can not be ignored is that the green governance of express custom pastry packaging boxes packaging is mostly limited to the delivery industry, and the binding force on upstream and downstream enterprises and the industry is not strong or even almost no, and a whole-chain governance system has not yet been formed. Taking more than 80% of the e-commerce express shipment as an example, there is no green packaging option set up in the e-commerce platform service, and consumers can not choose for themselves.
To promote the greening of express packaging, there must be both hard standards and hard constraints. It is necessary to improve legal standards and policies, pay attention to the effective connection of regulations and standards, continue to promote the addition of provisions for the green and low-carbon development of the postal express industry in relevant regulations, and promote the project and formulation of standards such as limiting excessive packaging and carbon emission accounting methods for express delivery. Illegal acts such as plastic pollution and excessive packaging should be severely punished, so as to form a deterrent effect.
Promoting the green development of express packaging is by no means the responsibility of a certain party, and it is necessary to actively promote the whole chain governance. Strengthen the leading role of packaging production, e-commerce platforms, commodity manufacturing and other enterprises, and promote the whole process of express packaging design, production, sales and use, recycling and disposal. Appropriately increase policy funding support, rationally allocate recycling infrastructure, and expand the scale of circular custom pastry packaging boxes packaging applications. Express enterprises should also expand the supply of green products, actively carry out the recycling and reuse of express packaging, and improve the efficiency of resource utilization. In addition, it is necessary to increase the intensity and breadth of green publicity and create a green delivery atmosphere.
Post time: Nov-27-2023