Entering November, the "Double 11" promotion of major e-commerce companies has ushered in a round of business peak season that will last until the Spring Festival in 2023. Compared with previous years, this year's express delivery will be more "green".
accelerates the adjustment and optimization of industrial structure, energy structure, transportation structure, etc. Implement a comprehensive conservation strategy, promote the efficient and intensive use of various types of resources, and accelerate the construction of a waste recycling system.
In recent years, the high-quality development of green express delivery, green transportation, green consumption and other fields has promoted the accelerated formation of a waste recycling system.
Explore the establishment of a green express packaging system
Deputy Director of the Market Supervision Department of the State Post Bureau Guan Aiguang introduced at a press conference held by the State Post Bureau recently that since this year, the State Post Bureau has accelerated the reduction, standardization and circulation of express packaging, vigorously implemented the "9917" project, and made positive progress. By the end of 2025, non-degradable plastic packaging bags, plastic tape, disposable plastic woven bags, etc. will be prohibited from the use of non-degradable plastic packaging bags, plastic tapes, disposable plastic woven bags, etc.
Establish a green express packaging system, and laws and regulations take the lead. As of the end of September 2022, my country has issued 2 laws related to express packaging, 1 administrative regulations, 2 regulations, 1 national and industry standards, and 215 policy documents, . All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have continuously promoted local governments to implement local responsibilities for pollution prevention and control of postal industry. At present, various places have issued more than 100 supporting policies for ecological and environmental protection of the postal express industry.
Since last year, the State Post Bureau, in conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, launched a pilot program for the large-scale application of recyclable express packaging, and explored the formation of a number of replicable, popularizable and sustainable large-scale application models for recyclable express packaging. Promote the solution to the high application cost of recyclable express packaging, difficulty in recycling and allocation operations, low willingness of individual consumers, poor data links between packaging and logistics status, and low product standardization.
Guan Aiguang introduced that as of the end of September, the proportion of the industry purchasing and using packaging materials that meet standards and standardized packaging operations reached 90%, and a total of 9.78 million recyclable express boxes (boxes) were placed, 122,000 recycling devices were laid out at the postal express business investment outlets, and 640 million corrugated cartons were recycled and reused. The green management of express packaging has achieved initial results.
green express is quietly "rooting and sprouting"
knocks on the customer's door, and Li Wei, a courier from JD Express , quickly takes out the express from the cold chain box. After the goods transported by cold chain are delivered to the door, the packaging box is taken back by the courier for recycling. Since JD.com’s circular cold chain box was put into use in 2015, this low-carbon and environmentally friendly transportation model has lasted for 7 years. In 2021 alone, a total of more than 60 million circulation insulated boxes were used, which can reduce consumption of 60 million disposable foam boxes, reduce disposable ice packs by about 60,000 tons, and reduce dry ice by about 30,000 tons.
In accordance with the "9792" project requirements of the State Post Bureau, JD Logistics adopts the "circulating transit bag + RFID" solution to promote the use of circular transit bags. At present, the average usage rate of circulating transit bags has reached 100%, saving 140 million disposable woven bags every year, and reducing the consumption of more than 70 million disposable plastic woven bags.
In the past five years, JD Logistics has worked with upstream and downstream partners to promote the environmentally friendly packaging model of original packaging. Tens of thousands of commodity SKUs have achieved direct shipping of original packaging, which has driven the industry to reduce the number of one-time packaging by 10 billion, which is equivalent to reducing the cutting of about 20 million trees.
passed tens of thousands of transportation tests, JD "slimming" , which can reduce the use of tape by more than 500 million meters per year, reduce the thickness of air column bag by 35%, reduce the thickness of inflatable bag by 25%, reduce the thickness of tangled film by 50%, and reduce the use of polyethylene PE by about 20,000 tons per year.
Like JD.com, SF Express has also launched the "Zero Carbon Future" plan to establish a green, low-carbon and environmentally friendly express logistics and transportation system. Chen Jun, director of public affairs at SF Express in Shenzhen, told reporters that SF Express has built a standard carbon management system and launched the digital intelligent carbon management platform - Fenghe Sustainable Development Platform. Currently, the platform has been certified by SGS, a third-party authoritative organization.
Since 2018, SF Express has independently developed and launched the carbon neutral product Fengduobao (π-box) circular packaging box, and piloted the Fengduobao (π-box) to be put into operation from July 1, 2021. As of the end of December 2021, 720,000 Fengduobao (π-box) have been deployed, achieving 2.8 million recycled use times. In 2022, it is estimated that the ownership of Fengduobao (π-box) circular packaging boxes will exceed 2.2 million.
"In 2021, SF Express completed the upgrade of the 'Fengjing Plan' 2.0, and started the reduction, standardization and scenario-based innovative development of eight major categories of materials such as rubber bag , adhesive paper, stickers, seals." Chen Jun said that the implementation of green packaging has enabled SF Express to reduce the use of base paper by about 34,000 tons per year and reduce the use of plastic by about 6,200 tons. In 2021, a total of greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 279,000 tons through green packaging.
Hubei Zhongtong Wuhan Transfer Center has fully implemented canvas bags, with a total of nearly 2.2 million pieces used in half a year. Compared with traditional disposable woven bags, this canvas bag is sturdy and durable, reusable for 4-6 months, and its usage rate is more than 100 times that of traditional woven bags.
This year's "Double 11", many express delivery companies have also introduced specific measures to control green express packaging. From November 1 to November 20, 130,000 Cainiao Station across the country once again launched the "Express Packaging Egg Exchange" activity, and consumers can exchange express packaging for eggs, etc. Debang Express continues to promote green packaging materials such as electronic face sheets, circulating fiber bags, circulating enclosure boxes, small polypropylene hollow boxes, and further increases the efforts to slim packaging and recycling packaging.
green packaging governance still needs to continue to promote
Not only enterprises are working hard to explore, but some cities have also included green express delivery in the " waste-free city " construction pilot. Meizhou City, Guangdong Province recently issued the "Meizhou City "Waste-free City" Pilot Implementation Plan", and the use rate of express green packaging has been included in the "Waste-free City" pilot index system.
At the end of September, Heilongjiang Province issued the "Notice on Effectively Doing a Good Job in the Construction of "Waste-free City" in the "14th Five-Year Plan" Period". Harbin will focus on promoting and applying recyclable express packaging, controlling plastic pollution in the industry, and recycling of express packaging; Harbin, Daqing , and Yichun Postal Administration will promote the implementation of industry tasks such as green outlets (distribution centers) construction and green transformation of express packaging.
Not long ago, the green development of the postal express industry was also included in the key tasks of Kunming's "waste-free city" creation.
"After the joint efforts of the entire system and the industry, the industry's awareness of green development has gradually increased, and the green management of express packaging has achieved initial results." Guan Aiguang mentioned that as of the end of September, the proportion of the entire industry's procurement of packaging materials that meet the standards and standardized packaging operations reached 90%. A total of 9.78 million recyclable express boxes (boxes) were placed, 122,000 recycling devices were laid out at the postal express business investment outlets, and 640 million corrugated cartons were recycled and recycled.
Guan Aiguang admitted that compared with the requirements of high-quality development of the industry, there is still a gap in the green governance of express packaging, and there are still shortcomings in systemicity, synergy and effectiveness. "First, a legal standard system covering the entire chain has not been established, second, a situation of joint management has not been formed, and third, information supervision methods are relatively lagging, and it needs to be worked hard and continued to advance."
"At present, express packaging waste has a low recycling rate, insufficient enterprise recycling momentum, excessive packaging, unpopular use of recyclable express boxes, and weak recycling awareness among community residents." Guangdong Transportation Vocational and Technical College , Liu Ruyi, head of the modern logistics management major and associate professor, suggested that in order to promote the green development of express packaging, the competent departments need to clarify the responsible parties and implement necessary financial means; second, industries, enterprises and end consumers need to reach a consensus to eliminate excessive packaging; third, through demonstration points construction and information means, a social system for recyclable express boxes is established; fourth, more publicity, more subsidies, and distribution of community express packaging waste disposal points, and establish express packaging waste classification standards.
The public's understanding of green express delivery also needs to be further improved.Ma Xiaoyan, director of the Institute of International Economics and Trade and Logistics of Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, also said that the public's understanding of the development of green express delivery is not comprehensive enough. "Many people believe that green express delivery is to focus on promoting the greening of express delivery packaging. There is a lack of systematic understanding of how to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction in trunk transportation, processing centers and other links; on the other hand, more environmental protection responsibilities are placed on express delivery companies, and there is a lack of clear understanding of how relevant parties such as e-commerce companies and users play a role."
According to reports, in the next step, the State Post Bureau will promote the revision of relevant regulations such as " Express Interim Regulations " and other relevant regulations, and increase green management of express delivery packaging and other related content. (Central Daily reporter Wen Wen)
Original title: "Double 11" promotion is imminent, will this year's express delivery be greener?
Source: China Environment APP
