Recently, at the third China (Hangzhou) International Express Industry Conference held in Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province, Ma Junsheng, director of the State Post Bureau, said that China's express delivery volume in 2019 will exceed 60 billion pieces, the incremental lead in the world.

However, the surge in the volume of express business has also brought about a great consumption of cartons, plastic bags, tape, white foam and other packaging. Carton recycling, waybill "thinning", big data algorithms to optimize boxing, green materials research and development ...... some courier companies to speed up the "green transition" pace. Industry insiders believe that the green express is a long-term project, the need for all walks of life **** with the participation of a long time for success.

Green action: carton recycling, waybill "thinning", transit bag "dressing"

In the courier site to take out the package, the hand will be unpacked and thrown into the green recycling box, has gradually become the habit of many people in Hangzhou. The first step in the process is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it. "I am an online shopper, a week may be more than a dozen orders online, if the boxes are taken home, three or five days will be outside the home pile." Hangzhou white-collar woman Zhang Qing said that since this year's courier points have recycling boxes, she will go along and leave the boxes inside, so that the boxes can be recycled.

2018 "double 11", the network laid about 5000 green recycling boxes in 200 cities in the country, leading consumers to join the carton **** enjoy action, offline recycling of more than 13 million cartons. In May of this year, Raiders joint Shentong, Yunda, Yuantong, Zhongtong, Best *** with the launch of the "Green Express Day", and announced the laying of 50,000 green recycling boxes in the country; at present, 30,000 recycling boxes have been into the end of the courier outlets across the country, becoming the "green public welfare at the doorstep! "

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Jiao Zheng, deputy secretary general of the China Courier Association, said that the "return box plan" to promote the reduction of express packaging, green. According to statistics, the green recycling box of the Cainiao network and courier companies is expected to recycle hundreds of millions of express cartons each year, reducing carbon emissions equivalent to the planting of 740,000 Shuttle trees.

Express waybill is also increasingly environmentally friendly. From a thick stack of handwritten five bills of lading to electronic bills of lading, as well as "reduced" electronic bills of lading, courier companies in the last two years in the courier bill of lading on the continuous efforts to seek the minimization of consumables, improve the efficiency of the use of paper.

"The cost of a five-link bill is about 0.25 yuan, while the electronic waybill only 6 cents; an average day we have 25 million single issued, the accumulation of less into more, which is a considerable savings." Shentong Express vice president Xiong Dahai said.

At the same time, the State Post Bureau organized Shentong and other six brands of express delivery enterprises to carry out recyclable transit bag (box) comprehensive replacement of disposable plastic woven bags pilot; according to preliminary estimates, the annual reduction of disposable plastic woven bags about 207 million.

Technology Enabling: Optimize Boxing with Big Data Algorithms, Research and Development of Green Materials

"Green Packaging" is inseparable from technological innovation. Currently, the entire express industry is accelerating the application of big data, new materials research and development, with green technology to lead the logistics change, a number of express industry new technology, new products came into being.

- Big data algorithms to optimize the box. Weight scales, yoga mats, snacks, dumbbells ...... consumers to buy goods, how to reasonably box, often troubled warehouse packers. The rookie boxing algorithm solves this problem. Big data and AI algorithms can recommend a reasonable carton model and boxing program to avoid "big material", over-packaging, which can reduce the use of materials by an average of 15%. In the past year, only in the warehouse of the bird "thin" 290 million express parcels.

At present, the boxing algorithm is still being optimized, such as automatically the smell of the goods and easy to dye the smell of the goods sub-assembled; you can also use the space of the goods themselves to set, such as garbage cans inside the installation of other commodities, greatly saving the boxing space. Industry insiders say, electronic waybill, boxing algorithm, intelligent path planning and other technologies, has become the infrastructure of green logistics.

- Green material development and application. "The research and development and use of new materials is the idea and way to solve the problem from the source." The relevant person in charge of the Best Express said that many courier bags on the market are produced from multiple recycled plastics, which are buried in the soil and require hundreds of years to degrade.

In April this year, Best Express launched the "green regeneration" program to promote the use of environmentally friendly plant plastic bags throughout the site of Best. It is understood that this environmentally friendly plant plastic bags to plant-sourced starch instead of oil-sourced plastics, each use of an environmentally friendly plastic bags will reduce the use of plastic by 30%, and the overall cost can be the same as ordinary PE courier bags.

Wang Hongchun, director of the private courier development center in Tonglu County, introduced that green packaging is a key research topic in the courier industry, and companies such as the Postal Service, Shunfeng, and Jingdong have set up green packaging laboratories dedicated to researching topics such as technological improvements in packaging materials.

"Green transformation" is still facing some difficulties, and requires the participation of the whole society *** together

Liu Jun, deputy director of the State Post Bureau, said that in 2019, the State Post Bureau launched the "9571" project. "project, namely: by the end of the year, the use of electronic waybill reached 95%, more than 50% of e-commerce express no longer secondary packaging, the use of recycled transit bag reached 70%, in 10,000 postal express business outlets to set up packaging waste recycling device. The green development of the express industry is closely related to the production and life of everyone, so that the express "last kilometer" is more green enterprises and management **** the same responsibility.

Part of the courier industry, said the person in charge of the "green transition" is still facing some difficulties.

First, the high cost of environmentally friendly packaging, universal access to the problem. Because the total number of express parcels, complexity, some environmental protection package price is high, courier companies and businesses to replace the high cost of green packaging. For example, the market without tape cartons, environmental protection courier bag price is about ordinary cartons and courier bags 1.5 times to 2 times the price of wet kraft paper tape is ordinary tape nearly 5 times.

Second, the recovery rate of express packaging is still low. Industry experts said that the end of the courier is a key link in the delivery of express delivery, but the current weak link in the recovery of express packaging; both the number of outlets at the end of the end, infrastructure construction or comprehensive service level, are not matched with the rapid development of the industry. It is understood that, at present, the overall recovery rate of packaging waste is less than 20%, of which less than half of the cartons are recycled.

Third, the relevant laws and regulations need to be further improved. Industry experts believe that, at present, in regulating the courier industry packaging selection, waste disposal, resource recycling and reuse of laws and regulations are not yet clear, the relevant departments to speed up the establishment of the courier industry green standard system. Xiong Dahai said that only the relevant parties in the industry chain are linked up to achieve the overall green.

This year's government work report clearly proposed to promote green express packaging. Green courier has become a number of courier companies "chairman of the project", in order to promote green action, but also specifically set up the industry's green public welfare committee.

Lai Meisong, chairman of the board of directors of China Express, said the industry leader should have the responsibility and commitment, not only to calculate the economic account, but also to calculate the environmental account; not only to calculate the immediate account, but also to calculate the long-term account. Only greener and more environmentally friendly, in order to improve the quality of service, the enterprise will have a greater pattern of development and influence.