China News Service, August 7th. According to the website of the State Administration for Market Regulation, recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Science and Technology jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Standardization of Express Green Packaging" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions"). ), to make a comprehensive deployment for the standardization of green express packaging in China in the next three years. The State Administration of Market Supervision will continue to develop and release a number of important standards led by the green concept in accordance with the "Guiding Opinions" deployment, and use standards to help express the "green revolution" of express packaging.
Data map: logistics staff sort express. Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan
China's express delivery business has ranked first in the world for six consecutive years. It is estimated that my country’s express delivery industry consumes more than 9 million tons of paper waste and 1.8 million tons of plastic waste each year, and they are growing rapidly. The impact on the environment cannot be ignored. Strengthening the standardization of express green packaging and supporting the proper handling of the pollution of express packaging has become an inherent requirement for industry transformation and upgrading and sustainable development.
The "Guiding Opinions" closely follow the requirements of "green, reduced, and recyclable" express packaging governance, and put forward the overall goal of China's express green packaging standardization work in the next three years, and lists the optimization of the standard system, the development of key standards, and standards Implement 8 key tasks in 4 areas, including supervision and standard internationalization. The issuance of the "Guiding Opinions" will accelerate the conversion of new materials, new technologies, and new products related to express delivery packaging into standards, and continuously improve the express delivery green packaging governance system that coordinates the standards and laws and policies.
In the next step, the State Administration of Market Supervision will continue to develop and release a number of important standards led by the green concept in accordance with the "Guiding Opinions", and continuously improve the entire life cycle covering design, materials, production, use, evaluation, recycling, and disposal. The express delivery green packaging standard system uses standards to promote the "green revolution" of express packaging.