After the “double 11”, express waste and express show “Carnival” growth. Behind the happy purchase on the Internet is the waste of resources and environmental pollution caused by express packages such as cartons, plastic bags and shock proof foam.
An online shopping product is often packed three layers inside and three layers outside, and in order to reduce the damage in transportation, some stores will increase the amount of packaging, “big packaging, small goods” phenomenon is not uncommon. It is said that the length of the tape wrapped around the goods can make the earth into zongzi.
To be fair, the environmental protection of packaging materials has been greatly improved compared with the past. For example, Jingdong, Suning, Shunfeng, Cainiao and other leading e-commerce platforms and express companies have begun to work on the greening of express packaging, including the use of narrower specifications of tape, a wide range of electronic surface orders, the use of original boxes for delivery, recycling of transit bags, etc.
At the same time, the environmental protection department has been calling on consumers to split packages on the spot and leave packaging materials for recycling.
However, in view of the current level of environmental protection awareness of the general public is not up to the times, and in order to avoid accidents in the express transportation process and the resulting after-sales disputes, many sellers still tend to use relatively large cartons or express bags for cargo packaging, and add too many filling materials to the package, such as bubble bags, bubble columns, etc., but these filling materials are different from cardboard boxes, etc Packaging materials are difficult to recover and have low value.
At the same time, based on convenience or privacy considerations (for example, girls bought underwear and other daily necessities), few consumers split packages on the spot, most of them take the whole package away, and the packaging is difficult to recycle directly at the site. At the same time, the space of express delivery station is too small to store and recycle cartons in large quantities. In fact, there is no progress in recycling and reuse.
Tang Yanju, Secretary General of the waste paper branch of China Renewable Resources Recycling Association, once said that express delivery is full of “treasure”. If the front end is properly classified and the recycling mode is reasonable, 90% of the packaging waste can be effectively utilized.
If every consumer consciously classifies the express packages and puts them on demand, the environmental impact of packaging materials garbage can be greatly reduced.
For example, my personal treatment of express garbage is as follows: for cartons, the tape on the cartons can be torn off first, and then the processed cartons can be folded and delivered to the “recyclable garbage” bin, the foam box is thrown at the striking place of the recycling point, and the tape is thrown into the “other garbage” bin.
Even the unusable plastic tape, as long as dry and wet separation, will not produce much dioxin when burning.
In my opinion, the relevant departments of the state should continue to promote the standardization, intensification and recycling of express packages to reduce the consumption and waste of materials.
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