Thu Dec 01 11:00:52 CST 2022
The China Express Association predicts that during this year's "Double Eleven" period, the industry's express delivery volume is expected to exceed 1 billion, requiring 3 million couriers. Consumers buy, buy, and couriers run around... In recent years, "Double Eleven" has become a feast for the e-commerce world and a carnival for shoppers, but it is also a test for the express delivery industry. However, with the launch of unmanned vehicles, drones, naked packages, and shared black cardboard gift box express boxes, for the black cardboard gift box paper packaging industry, this year's Double Eleven seems to be less prosperous than imagined.
Statistics from the State Post Bureau show that last year, China's express delivery business volume exceeded 31.2 billion pieces for the first time, and the annual per capita express delivery usage was nearly 23 pieces. In 2015, China consumed 9.922 billion black cardboard gift boxes, 16.985 billion meters of adhesive tape and 8.268 billion plastic bags. Among them, the length of the tape can circle the earth's equator 425 times. If each black cardboard gift box is estimated at 0.2 kilograms, the black cardboard gift box packaging waste generated by these express delivery is as high as more than 4 million tons.
The China Express Association predicts that during the "Double Eleven" period this year, the industry-wide black cardboard gift box express delivery volume is expected to exceed 1 billion, which poses a huge challenge to environmental protection.
Massive online shopping brings huge waste and pollution of express black cardboard gift box packaging. The "shared black cardboard gift box express box" launched by Suning is a recyclable black cardboard gift box packing box. After signing, the courier will recycle the black cardboard gift box, and each black cardboard gift box can be recycled thousands of times. The black cardboard gift box can save a 10-year-old tree every cycle more than 2000 times.
In the first half of this year, Suning Logistics launched the recyclable and shared black cardboard gift box express box for the first time. As of October this year, the 50,000 shared black cardboard gift boxes have saved 6.5 million express cartons.
On June 5 this year, JD.com launched a joint action on the green supply chain - the "Green Stream Plan". According to this measure, it is estimated that by 2020, JD.com will reduce the use of disposable black cardboard gift box packaging cartons in the supply chain by 10 billion, which is equivalent to the number of black cardboard gift box cartons used in national express delivery in 2022.
In 2016, JD.com took the lead in using fully biodegradable black cardboard gift box packaging in its self-operated fresh food business. The black cardboard gift box packaging material can be decomposed into carbon dioxide and water within 3 to 6 months under composting conditions, and will not pollute the environment. In addition, JD Logistics also conducts energy-saving, emission-reduction, low-carbon and environmental protection activities in other links other than black cardboard gift box packaging consumables through drop-and-hook transportation and the application of new energy vehicles.
Cainiao Network, a subsidiary of Alibaba, will soon launch 20 black cardboard gift box "green warehouses" with partners and merchants around the world. These green warehouses all use tape-free black cardboard gift box express boxes and 100% degradable express bags. At the same time, during the "Double Eleven" period, Cainiao will also fully launch the recycling of black cardboard gift boxes at Cainiao stations in key cities.
Cui Dong, assistant to the chairman of Shandong Express Logistics Co., Ltd., introduced that the company is gradually implementing black cardboard gift box naked packages in peanut oil, cosmetics and other packaging. Their company’s black cardboard gift box naked package products account for 10%-20% of all express products. %.
Enterprises such as ZTO Express and Shandong EMS Express have begun to use degradable black cardboard gift box packaging. "The utilization rate of degradable black cardboard gift box packaging in Shandong has reached about 18%, and this proportion is gradually increasing." The person in charge of Shandong ZTO Express Lu Dai said that this kind of black cardboard gift box packaging can be decomposed within one year without incineration, but the cost of a bag increases by 5 cents, which was difficult when it was first implemented. Later, the company increased subsidies to outlets, and now black cardboard gift boxes are popular rate gradually increased.
"Through negotiating with major customers, the recycling of black cardboard gift box cartons has been reached." Chen Licai, regional manager of Yunda Shandong Company, said that this method is currently mainly reached with platforms such as Vipshop and Dangdang.com that have their own specially designed black cardboard gift box packaging agreement.
Problems such as the surge of black cardboard gift box packaging waste have already attracted national attention. In response to this situation, the Ministry of Commerce has made it clear that e-commerce and logistics express companies are encouraged to use distribution channels to recycle discarded black cardboard gift box packaging, and to standardize e-commerce logistics to promote green black cardboard gift box packaging.
Recently, the "Guiding Opinions on Collaboratively Promoting the Green Black Cardboard Gift Box Packaging Work in the Express Industry" was issued, stating that "by 2020, the proportion of degradable green black cardboard gift box packaging materials will be increased to 50%, and a dedicated express delivery service will be basically built. black cardboard gift box packaging recycling system".