News:As major e-commerce platforms start promotional activities, starting from June, nearly 400 million express packages flow across the country every day. However, the reporter's investigation found that there are still many cases of excessive packaging of express delivery.
The reporter calculated that the volume of the removed packaging was almost five times that of the purchased goods, and many of them could not be reused and could only be sent to the garbage recycling station.
Innovative research and development of green packaging breaks through technical cost difficulties
According to the staff, there are about 200 stations like this in Tianjin, which process about 5 tons of recycling every day, of which express packaging waste accounts for about 80%.
At present, my country's express delivery industry has an average daily business volume of 350 million pieces and an average daily service user of nearly 700 million person-times, ranking first in the world for many years in a row. The reporter saw in the China Post Green Packaging Innovation Laboratory that this packaging proofing machine was making samples.
According to reports, degradable adhesive tape is a difficult point in research and development. After numerous tensile tests, the R&D staff finally launched a new type of fully biodegradable environmental protection tape in 2023. During garbage recycling, the tape and the carton do not need to be separated. Under suitable conditions, the tape can be directly degraded into water and carbon dioxide.
The express delivery industry accelerates the "greening" of the whole process
More and more express logistics companies are also promoting the "greening" of the whole process. At this express outlet in Yiwu, Zhejiang, consumers can use their own express packaging to deduct the express fee. In the transportation link, express companies have replaced 9.6-meter vans with 15-17-meter-long high-capacity drop trailers, which can reduce pollutant emissions by more than 70% per unit of express. In the postal processing center in Guizhou, many e-commerce products have begun to use this kind of circulation cleaning box, which no longer requires tape to seal the box, and the box has its own lock.