Staggering Pollution and Waste from Express Packaging
Release Date:
2017-10-27
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On September 26, 2017, People’s Daily highlighted the serious issues of waste and pollution associated with express delivery packaging at the current stage, urging the industry to undergo transformation and development and sounding the alarm about the severe environmental impact of the express delivery sector. With the rapid growth of e-commerce in China, the express delivery industry has surged and become a crucial pillar supporting e-commerce development, while the efficiency and sustainability of last-mile delivery have emerged as a key indicator of online shopping satisfaction.
Online shopping involves three parties: buyers, sellers, and courier companies. The indistinct allocation of responsibility has led many merchants to rely solely on low-cost measures such as increasing packaging materials and cushioning to ensure the integrity of goods during transit and maintain customer satisfaction. However, the continuous expansion of online shopping has exacerbated issues like excessive packaging and packaging waste, posing a significant threat to the environment. Against the backdrop of the deepening development of e-commerce, green and lightweight delivery solutions have garnered increasing attention from both the government and industry players, making the future transformation and upgrading of the express delivery sector a focal point of concern.
Current Market Situation: E-commerce is booming, yet excessive packaging in the express delivery sector has sparked widespread reflection.
According to statistics, China’s express delivery volume reached 31.35 billion parcels in 2016, consuming approximately 3.2 billion woven bags, 6.8 billion plastic bags, 3.7 billion packaging boxes, and 330 million rolls of adhesive tape. Under the industry’s stringent cost-control measures, most plastic packaging used in express delivery consists of non-degradable, low-quality plastic products, whose composition and sheer volume have imposed serious environmental impacts. Therefore, a comprehensive transformation of express packaging must be earnestly implemented across all levels of government, e-commerce platforms, courier companies, and consumers, so as to progressively steer the express delivery sector toward greater lightness and greenness.
At the national level: the government and relevant departments shall establish mandatory standards and strengthen oversight.
Addressing issues such as excessive packaging and waste in the express delivery sector requires action at the national legal level: the government and relevant authorities must formulate appropriate policies and measures, rigorously enforce mandatory standards, and strengthen legal oversight and constraints on overpackaging in the industry. The “Implementation Plan for Promoting Green Packaging in the Express Delivery Industry,” issued in August 2016, encourages the greening and reduction of packaging, thereby providing a policy framework for the sector’s transformation. Since 2016, the government and related departments have further introduced stringent regulatory standards tailored to the development of the express logistics industry, offering policy support for the transformation and upgrading of express delivery enterprises.
Although the government has actively introduced relevant policies to support development, there is currently no clear policy that strictly regulates express delivery packaging. In the future, the state and relevant authorities should further refine the policy framework by establishing a comprehensive legal regime from the perspectives of consumers, platform operators, and regulatory bodies, in order to curb excessive packaging in the express delivery sector, provide policy support for the development of green logistics, promote a shift away from the industry’s resource-intensive growth model, and encourage governments at all levels to set up designated collection stations for sorted express delivery packaging at various service outlets, thereby offering viable solutions for the sorted collection and recycling of such packaging.
At the corporate level: Platform companies are proactively planning and exploring green, waste-reduction measures.
Beyond policy constraints, it is also important to strike an appropriate balance by empowering platform companies to adopt a business-oriented approach to addressing issues such as excessive packaging and packaging waste in the express delivery sector, thereby fostering the industry’s transformation and upgrading. At the corporate level, this involves both e-commerce platforms and logistics firms: with the support of national policies, these entities are accelerating their strategic deployments and actively exploring new models for developing sustainable express packaging. E-commerce platforms are encouraging the use of eco-friendly packaging for shipments and selecting appropriately sized boxes to avoid overpackaging and waste, while stepping up efforts to recycle packaging materials. Meanwhile, logistics companies are standardizing couriers’ sorting practices and gradually advancing the automation of parcel delivery operations, which has helped mitigate problems such as rough handling and indiscriminate sorting during the sorting process.
At the consumer level: shifting public awareness to ensure effective waste recycling.
With the proactive support of government policies and platform companies, consumers—as the end-users and key drivers of change—should actively embrace the principles of “green” and “lightweight” packaging in the express delivery sector, thereby ensuring that the industry’s transformation and development are effectively implemented. In the consumer segment, consumers and platform operators should work in tandem to intensify public awareness campaigns, shift consumer attitudes, consciously sort and properly dispose of packaging materials, and actively cooperate with delivery personnel by facilitating the immediate collection and return of packages upon delivery, thus boosting recycling rates. Looking ahead, concerted efforts across all stages to reduce the weight of express packaging and promote green development will help advance the transformation and upgrading of the express delivery industry.
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