The national post office promotes the implementation of green packaging work in express industry
The national post office promotes the implementation of green packaging work in express industry
It may be said that now is a "express time" people all the time network shopping and various convenient use express. But it ignores and even ignores the invisible pollution caused by the package of express delivery. Courier package recycling is not satisfactory, and the Chinese post office has accelerated the implementation of green packaging work in express industry.
The package recycling is less than 10%
According to the 2016 postal industry development statistics bulletin issued by the state post office, the total postal industry business volume in 2016 was 739.72 billion yuan, up 45.7 percent year on year. The annual postal industry revenue (excluding postal savings Banks' direct operating income) completed 537.92 billion yuan, an increase of 33.2% year on year. Among them, the delivery industry accounted for 73.9 percent of the first time.
Specific view, express service enterprise business 2016 2016, express business income reached 397.44 billion yuan, with 2016 GDP of hainan province (404.45 billion), higher than that of GDP in the three provinces of ningxia, qinghai and Tibet.
However, it is worth noting that, while the express industry is developing rapidly, the pollution of express packaging gradually becomes apparent. Take longjiang county in heilongjiang province as an example, the local county town produces about a third of the daily garbage.
It is estimated that the amount of adhesive tape used in China is 0.8 meters per piece. In addition, the production of a ton of paper will need to be cut down 17 years to produce large trees and produce a ton of plastic bags, which need to consume more than 3 tons of oil.
Industry insiders say that most of the plastic bags used in express delivery are disposable recycled plastic bags, but the main material of the tape is still polyvinyl chloride, which will take nearly a hundred years to degrade. Statistics show that in 2015, the total length of the tape used by the national express industry was 16.985 million meters, which can be circled around the equator 425 times.
And the growth rate of express packaging is still increasing. According to the data, in 2015, the express delivery bill was 20.7 billion, with 3.1 billion pieces of knitting, 8268 million plastic bags and 16.985 million meters of adhesive tape. Compared with 2014, 6 categories in 7 types of package packages increased by more than 45 percent.
In terms of recycling, li jianhua, chairman of shandong huatai paper co., LTD., said that the packaging generated by Courier packages reached a million tons, but the recovery rate was less than 10%.
Because of this, in July 2016, the national post office issued a propulsion express industry green packaging work of the implementation of the scheme, put forward to 2020, basic out poisonous and harmful material exceeds bid packaging materials, built the basic social system of express packaging recycling.
It is reported that our country has been widely promoted in the express industry electronic waybill, than before the immovable paper waybill, electronic waybill greatly reduced the amount of paper, can save Courier companies spending $5 billion a year; However, the express delivery of China post logistics is used to reduce the cost of the waste paper and the environmental pollution caused by the use of heat-sensitive environmental materials, which will eliminate the base paper and reduce the raw materials by half.
In terms of express green packaging, some Courier companies also began to use when delivering biodegradable and recycled plastic boxes, cartons and in transit when using reusable canvas bag, and launched a carton recycling program. According to the sf express, the reduction of 2,793 tons of polypropylene (PP) materials and 2,539 tons of raw paper was reduced by the 2016 polyethylene (PE) materials.
International express 'green'
In fact, in addition to our country, developed countries have already established relevant laws and regulations. Germany in 1991 and 1991, have issued "packaging waste management method" and the packaging recycling use of law, requirements in addition to the packaging manufacturers, engaged in the transportation, agent, wholesale, retail enterprises are responsible for recycling packaging. The regulations require that the packaging volume of the products clearly exceed 10% of the commodity itself and the packaging fee is clearly more than 30% of the products, and shall be judged as "commercial fraud" that infringes upon the interests of consumers. In addition, Germany has set up a green point tax of 1.27 euros per kg for traditional plastic bags, while fully biodegradable plastic bags are exempt.
On the basis of the "polluter pays" principle, Japan 1995, will be responsible by the consumer packaging waste classification, the municipal government responsible for packaging waste classified collection, private enterprise approved by the government of packaging waste reprocessing. At the same time, Japan also stipulates that the empty space in the container shall not exceed 20% of the volume of the container, and the packing cost shall not exceed 15% of the price of the product.
The UK also legislates that packaging should not be added too much to meet the sanitary safety of the goods. If the company violates the rules, consumers can complain and deal with it. In the past 20 years, British merchandise has lost 40% of its weight in packaging.
In addition, in addition to the package itself, automobile carbon emission is also the focus of international postal emission reduction. France set up the social responsibility division (CSR) in 2014, proposing that by 2020 France post would replace 100% of its existing vehicles with new energy vehicles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, France post has the world's largest environmental fleet.
Switzerland has started using more environmentally friendly B7 diesel, new energy vehicles and solar power systems. The new measures have helped Swiss postal service cut its carbon emissions by 1,100 tons. In Norway, in addition to the large adoption of electric vehicles, the purchase of zero-emission fuels and the delivery of mail delivery in some cities have achieved "net zero emission" targets.
In this context, in 2015, the proportion of alternative new energy vehicles in the international postal service environment monitoring system member postal operators increased from 10% in 2008 to 14% now. Alternative new energy could be extended to 11 categories. At present, the postal operators had five countries take the lead in moving towards the goal of 100% use of alternative energy vehicles, postal operators in 18 countries to improve energy use efficiency, to provide technical support, increase capital investment, the use of alternative energy vehicles, office use of new energy and other aspects to take corresponding measures.
At home, jingdong has also joined the large electric vehicle manufacturers, and has started to develop an electric logistics freight car for the transportation of various sorting centers to the distribution site. Last June, the first batch of jd's new energy trucks took the lead in Beijing, Shanghai and chengdu.
However, it is important to note that the green of express packaging is a systematic project, although some progress has been made in the efforts of express delivery and upstream and downstream enterprises, but it still faces the promotion bottleneck. The personage inside course of study says, although the state advocate the concept of green development, also issued relevant policy, but a lack of mandatory scheme and the existing industry standards, hard on the market main body to form effective constraint.
"High costs are the main reason for the difficulties." The people noted that a sheaf of ordinary sticky tape with a length of about 265 meters and a width of 6 cm is about 10 yuan at wholesale prices, but the same size and length of kraft tape is nearly 40 yuan. The promotion difficulty of the enterprise can be imagined.
Moreover, the low recovery rate is also a difficult part of the current push, the people said. In the face of the packaging rubbish, many consumers do not know how to deal with it, most of the packaging is sent directly into the landfill, which also causes great pressure on the environment.
