E-commerce express will bid farewell to secondary packaging
The more disposable plastic products are used?
Layer after layer of plastic on the express package?
Difficult to collect plastic waste?
These years of problems will become the focus of plastic pollution control during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly issued the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan of Action for Plastic Pollution Control", emphasizing the need to carry out the entire chain of plastic pollution control, and build "dams" to prevent plastic leakage to the environment.
As an important basic material, plastic has been widely used in all aspects of the economy and society. While bringing many conveniences to people's production and life, it also brings huge environmental challenges.
Plastic itself is not a pollutant. The essence of plastic pollution is that plastic waste leaks into the natural environment such as soil and water and is difficult to degrade, causing visual pollution, soil damage, microplastics and other environmental hazards.
Plastic pollution control is a worldwide problem, and it has become a global focus topic in recent years.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, focusing on plastic pollution control, the "Plan" has deployed three main tasks: First, actively promote plastic production and use source reduction, including actively promoting the green design of plastic products, and continuing to promote the use of disposable plastic products. Promote plastic substitute products in a quantitative, scientific and stable manner.
The second is to speed up the promotion of standardized recycling and disposal of plastic waste, including strengthening the standardized recycling and removal of plastic waste, establishing and improving the rural plastic waste collection and disposal system, increasing the recycling of plastic waste, and improving the harmless disposal of plastic waste. Level etc.
The third is to vigorously carry out the cleanup and rectification of plastic waste in key areas, and deploy targeted tasks for the cleanup and rectification of plastic waste in rivers, lakes, seas, tourist attractions, and rural areas.
At present, disposable plastic products are widely used, low value, and difficult to collect, which are the difficulties and pain points of plastic pollution control.
To this end, the "plan" clearly will reduce its production and use from the source.
In the product design and production process, green design of plastic products is actively promoted.
It is prohibited to produce ultra-thin plastic shopping bags with a thickness of less than 0.025 mm, polyethylene agricultural mulch film with a thickness of less than 0.01 mm, daily chemical products containing plastic microbeads, and other products that are harmful to the environment and human health.
Reduce excessive packaging of goods, improve the uniformity of materials and the ease of recycling and recyclability of products, and facilitate the recycling and reuse of plastic products after use.
In the plastic circulation and consumption link, it is necessary to promote the use and reduction of non-degradable plastic shopping bags, disposable plastic tableware, disposable plastic straws, and disposable plastic products in hotels and hotels in the traditional business services such as retail, catering, and accommodation.
Supervise and guide e-commerce, takeaway and other platform companies and express companies to implement their main responsibilities, and formulate rules for the reduction of disposable plastic products platform.
Significantly reduce the secondary packaging of e-commerce products in the delivery process, and improve the standardization, green, and recycling level of express packaging.
The "Plan" also gives a timetable for the treatment of plastic pollution: by 2025, the operation of the plastic pollution control mechanism will be more effective, the local, departmental and corporate responsibilities will be effectively implemented, and the production, circulation, consumption, recycling, and end disposal of plastic products will be fully implemented. The effect of chain governance has been more remarkable, and white pollution has been effectively curbed.
Among them, in terms of source reduction, the phenomenon of unreasonable use of disposable plastic products in key areas such as retail, e-commerce, takeaway, express delivery, and accommodation will be greatly reduced. E-commerce express mail will basically achieve no secondary packaging and recyclable express packaging. The scale of applications reaches 10 million.
In terms of recycling and disposal, cities at prefecture-level and above have basically established systems for the sorting, collection, transportation, and treatment of domestic waste according to local conditions, and the efficiency of plastic waste collection and transfer has been greatly improved; the national urban domestic waste incineration capacity has reached about 800,000 tons per day. The amount of waste directly landfilled has been greatly reduced; the recovery rate of agricultural film has reached 85%, and the residual amount of film has achieved zero growth across the country.
In terms of garbage disposal, the open-air plastic garbage left over from history in key waters, key tourist attractions, and rural areas is basically cleared.
The leakage of plastic waste to the natural environment will be effectively controlled.
Wang Wenzheng