Just like every day, you take one small thing out of the expresscardboard boxes. Have you ever imaged about what happen with that garbage?
As the development of the Internet economy, the piles of expressdelivery garbage are growing fast, becoming a big problem for environment.
Piles of Waste in the City
According to the China Statistical Yearbook 2016, although the numbers of municipal waste looks like grow slowly, China’s cities produced 22.5% more solid waste than ten years ago (in 2006).
A huge Potential Market
In recent years, with the rapid development of online shopping, theexpress delivery industry has exploded.
According to the report issued by the country’s State Post Bureau(SPB), in China, the volume of express delivery in 2016 reached 31.28 billion packages, with year-on-year growth more than 50 percent.
Average daily package volume in China numbered to 85.71 million, and the largest number of them reached more than250 million packages.
Every day, the numbers of Express Delivery Users:
The ever-growing appetite of the surging Chineseexpress industry for cardboard boxes and transparent adhesive tape has broughtabout mass waste of wrapping materials in China, which plots trends in theenvironmental impact of China’s delivery industry.
Mass Waste of Wrapping Materials
There are six types of packages in China's expressdelivery industry: express delivery waybill, plastic woven bag, plasticbag, envelope, cardboard box and adhesive tape.
According to the State Post Bureau, Chinese express companies used a total of almost 14.5 million meters of adhesive tape in 2014. That’s enough to encircle the earth’s equator 286 times. In 2015, it turned into a total of almost 17 million meters, which is enough to encircle the earth’s equator 425 times.
In 2016, about 330 million roll of adhesive tapes were used. Based on the average length of 100 meters, it was about 33 million meters of adhesive tapes were used.
Green Express Delivery
