The courier packaging is excessive, buy a cup merchant.
Recently, the online user "Lifetime Worry-Free" bought a glass water cup, and when he got the "baby", he burst into tears. The merchant was afraid that the cup would be damaged during transportation, so he wrapped the cup together with the packaging box with three layers of tape and three layers inside and outside to make it sturdy, like a zongzi. "Lifetime Worry-Free" brought scissors, knives, and even pliers, and it took a lot of effort to reveal the water cup's true appearance.
Such packaging has long been seen by online shoppers, and some people have specially invented "unpacking artifacts" for express packaging and sold them on Taobao. It is understood that the scale of the downstream packaging industry driven by the express delivery industry has exceeded 10 billion yuan.
With the approaching of "Double 11", the express delivery industry will usher in another round of business climax. The problems brought by the massive express delivery, such as unenvironmentally friendly packaging materials, staggering waste, and environmental pollution, have also attracted widespread attention.
What is the packaging of the courier layer by layer?
Recently, the State Post Bureau released the "China Express Field Green Packaging Development Status and Trend Report", according to the average express use of 1 meter long tape to calculate, in 2015, the total length of the tape used in the national express delivery industry is 16.985 billion meters, around the equator 425 circle.
The report also shows that in 2015, the national express consumption express waybill about 20.70 billion, woven bags about 3.10 billion, plastic bags about 8.268 billion, about 3.105 billion envelopes, packaging boxes about 9.922 billion, about 2.977 billion internal buffers.
For e-commerce companies, layers of packaging are helpless. "Courier companies send and receive thousands of pieces every day. For a product sold in an online mall, it has to go through seven procedures from seller to buyer. The product needs to be transported repeatedly from dispersed to centralized to decentralized. It is inevitable that the outer packaging will be damaged in this process." An e-commerce official who deals in cosmetics said that it is not necessary to put some fillers in the packaging box. If there is any damage during transportation, not only the goods will be lost, but also the buyer will face bad reviews.
For sellers and consumers, one more layer of packaging is one more layer of protection. As an online seller, customer evaluation is crucial to the quality of business. Therefore, in order to prevent damage during transportation, more efforts have to be made on packaging. The reporter's survey found that most netizens know that excessive packaging of express delivery will cause waste and environmental pollution, but they also believe that the "golden bell, iron cloth shirt" type of packaging is reassuring.
According to the forecast of the State Post Bureau, in the first three quarters of this year, the national express business volume continued to break records, with a total of 21.10 billion completed, and it is expected to break through 30 billion by the end of the year. At the same time, the green development of the express ecological chain has a long way to go. Excessive packaging and secondary packaging, the use of environmentally unfriendly inferior packaging materials, and the difficulty of recycling packaging are hindering and hindering the green development of the express delivery industry.
Who will pay for environmentally friendly materials?
Green express packaging is not a technical issue, but a cost issue.
"Although environmentally friendly materials are good, they cannot avoid the practical problem of rising costs." Zhang Wenhong, CEO of Cainiao Network, once conducted a survey: a non-degradable plastic bag costs 8 cents, while a degradable plastic bag costs 4 to 5 times. High costs make it difficult to promote, and who will pay has become the focus of the problem.
Zhang Wenhong suggested that the government, merchants, logistics companies, logistics platforms, and consumers should jointly establish a green fund to subsidize related expenses.
Zhu Lei, deputy dean of the Qingdao Research Institute of Beijing Institute of Graphic Arts, introduced that some consumers are willing to use green degradable materials to pack products out of their own pockets. Many courier companies and e-commerce platforms are also working to reduce the cost of using environmentally friendly materials.
The reporter learned that Shentong Express promotes reusable environmentally friendly woven bags in various outlets, which can be used up to 50 times. The woven bags are equipped with chips to realize information tracking. SF Express is also gradually using repurposed environmentally friendly canvas bags in transit sites. After testing, a canvas bag can be reused about 20 times, the cost is about 15 yuan, and the average cost of use can be reduced to 0.75 yuan per piece, or even lower.
JD.com has more than 200 warehouses across the country, which can directly localize distribution and delivery, reducing intermediate links and avoiding excessive and irregular packaging, said Gao Yu, director of JD.com Mall. The carton recycling strategy launched in the three regions of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou has realized the recycling of cartons. At present, 10% of JD.com's cartons are reused.
In June this year, 32 well-known logistics enterprises inside and outside the United Nations of the Cainiao Network formed a green alliance and launched the "Green Movement Plan" to promote the logistics industry to low-emission, pollution-free and recyclable development. The alliance promised to replace 50% of packaging materials by 2020, and replace the filling with 100% degradable green packaging materials; through the use of new energy vehicles, recyclable materials, reuse packaging, and establish a packaging material recycling system, the overall carbon emissions of the industry will be reduced by 3.62 million tons.
How to promote green express delivery
After 10 years of development, the express delivery industry has solved the problem of user point-to-point and door-to-door delivery, achieving large-scale development. At the same time, it has also caused "troubles" of growth and "pains" of transformation.
Jiang Mingfa, director of the Guangdong Provincial Postal Administration, believes that the end point of express service is people's livelihood, the pain point is at the end, and the entry point is green. To promote green express delivery, innovation should be carried out in terms of green packaging, green delivery, and green traffic.
In terms of green packaging, we should focus on green development, and actively promote the application of advanced technology, energy-saving and environmentally friendly new products and new materials in the industry to reduce environmental pollution and resource consumption in receipt, sorting, sealing, transportation, delivery, etc. At the same time, guide express delivery enterprises to establish packaging bag recycling points, cooperate with production enterprises to establish waste packaging recycling facilities, and realize the recycling and reuse of packaging materials.
In terms of green delivery, it focuses on supporting technological research and development related to green development, and supports projects such as new energy vehicles, green material accessories, and building energy conservation to carry out pilots in the industry to increase environmentally friendly packaging that is easy to recycle. It is reported that foreign manufacturers have produced paper balls that are easier to recycle. The raw material is waste paper. After simple processing, it becomes a ball, which can be recycled while having shock-proof and reusable functions.
In terms of green traffic, develop unified distribution and common distribution to promote energy conservation and emission reduction of transportation vehicles. Use big data technology and geographic information technology to optimize the design of transportation delivery routes and improve transportation efficiency.
