How to get out of the dilemma that packaging waste is a heavy environmental burden behind the express carnival?

In 20 16, China's express delivery business exceeded 30 billion pieces, up 53% year-on-year, and continued to rank first in the world. It is estimated that the express delivery business in China will reach 70 billion pieces by 2020. The corresponding data is worrying. According to the survey, the actual recovery rate of express packaging in express delivery industry is less than 10%, and most of it is directly sent to landfill.

"As the largest express delivery country in the world, it is very necessary and urgent for China to improve the recovery rate of express packaging, promote and use green packaging, and promote the transformation of express delivery enterprises to green logistics." Wang Yueqing, a worker in the Environmental Sanitation Department of Longjiang County, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, has been engaged in environmental sanitation work for 16 years. Because she has to deal with all kinds of garbage every day, she has brought some suggestions, such as "Suggestions on Realizing Recycling of Express Packaging Wastes in Green Logistics" and "Regulations on Formulating Management of Recycling of Express Packaging Wastes", hoping that the country can design and introduce relevant measures from the top as soon as possible to promote green express delivery.

The recovery rate of one million tons of express garbage is less than 10%.

With the rapid development of e-commerce, online consumption has become the main force to stimulate consumption, and new consumption patterns such as online shopping have strongly promoted the development of the national economy. However, behind its sustained prosperity, it faces a huge environmental burden. In addition to youth, the problem of express garbage has also attracted the attention of many delegates.

On June 5438+ 10 last year, the State Post Bureau issued the Report on the Development Status and Trend of China Express Green Packaging. The report shows that in 20 15 years, China's express delivery industry * * * consumed about 20.7 billion express waybills, about 3/kloc-0.000 million woven bags, about 8.268 billion plastic bags, about 3 105 million envelopes and about 9.922 billion packing boxes. Only the total length of packaging tape can circle the equator of the earth 425 times.

"Express packaging is basically a one-time use. At present, the packaging waste generated by express parcels has reached one million tons, but the recovery rate is less than 10%. " Deputy Li Jianhua, Chairman of Shandong Huatai Paper Co., Ltd. said that the packaging materials commonly used in the express delivery industry can be divided into seven categories: waybill, envelope, carton, plastic bag, woven bag, adhesive tape and cushion. Due to the lack of special recycling management channels, most express parcels will be discarded after one-time use and become garbage. Among them, plastic bags for express delivery may also leave a lot of toxic and harmful substances such as plasticizers and flame retardants, which not only wastes resources, but also pollutes water and soil environment.

There is still resistance to express garbage recycling.

After receiving the parcel, take out the goods and throw the packing box into the garbage dump ... In the view of the representative of Qing, this is the final destination of express packaging in the hands of most people. She once asked some courier companies why they didn't recycle, and the response was not optimistic. "It is said that the cost is too high and many of them cannot be reused."

The reporter learned that for express delivery companies, the profit of recycling second-hand cartons is very thin, and it is usually not necessary to spend manpower and material resources for recycling. Some courier companies have made relevant explorations in carton recycling. For example, every time a carton is recycled, the courier brother can get a price subsidy of 0.5 yuan ~ 1 yuan, and consumers can get points feedback. However, the implementation of recycling not only increases the courier's return cost and the consumer's integral cost, but also includes the storage cost of empty containers, the cost of professional maintenance personnel and the cost of disinfection, which ultimately makes the recycling behavior unsustainable.

It is reported that due to different sizes and materials, the price of express cartons ranges from 0. 1 yuan to more than 10 yuan, and most of these cartons are sold to waste collection stations at the price from 0.5 yuan to 0.8 yuan per kilogram. The courier of a courier company said that the pace of work is fast now, and they will not waste time on recycling.

Improve the recycling system and attach importance to recycling legislation.

"The garbage pollution caused by express packaging involves many reasons such as the lag of policies, regulations and industry standards, the inability to keep up with garbage collection and treatment, and the irregular management of express transportation." Commissioner Du Huiping, President of chongqing university of education, thinks that industry standards should be promulgated as soon as possible to unify express packaging. Standardize the structure and specifications of express packaging, formulate the standards of express packaging materials, and use recyclable and degradable materials in principle. The use of non-degradable materials should be strictly restricted, and the use of non-recyclable and non-degradable materials should be gradually banned. The representative of Li Jianhua told reporters that the national standards and guidelines for packaging in express delivery industry and e-commerce have not been clearly defined. At the beginning of this year, the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Express Industry" issued by the State Post Bureau proposed to promote green packaging, but no specific measures and encouragement policies were put forward in its implementation. In addition to formulating national standards for express packaging industry, enterprises should also be forced to speed up the use and recycling of green packaging and environmental protection packaging, giving priority to environmental protection packaging. At the same time, express delivery enterprises, logistics enterprises and renewable resource utilization enterprises are encouraged to increase the recycling of express packaging and improve the reuse rate of express packaging.

"It is time for express garbage to be solved by legislation."

Deputy Qing believes that this year's government work report mentioned that it is necessary to "promote e-commerce and express delivery into communities and rural areas", which will inevitably lead to a continuous surge in express delivery, and it is urgent to develop a green express delivery industry. "Solving the problem of express garbage is a systematic project, involving packaging material suppliers, express delivery companies, e-commerce platforms, merchants and many other practitioners, and it is also related to thousands of consumers in Qian Qian. Everyone should participate in the ranks of' green packaging'. "