Logistics Packaging Weekly News

The "Opinions" proposes to build a green supply chain. Encourage enterprises to develop green design, select green materials, implement green procurement, create green manufacturing processes, promote green packaging, carry out green transportation, and do a good job in recycling waste products, so as to achieve green environmental protection throughout the product cycle. Select about 100 companies with high enthusiasm, great social influence, and strong leading role to carry out green supply chain pilot projects and explore the establishment of a green supply chain system. Encourage industry associations to improve the green level of industry supply chains through the formulation of regulations, consulting services, and industry self-discipline.

2. "Administrative Measures for Mail Express Package" announced

In order to strengthen the green packaging management of express mail, ensure the packaging quality of express mail, regulate the packaging behavior of express mail, protect the legitimate rights and interests of users and delivery safety, save resources and protect the environment, according to the "Postal Law of the People's Republic of China" and "Solid Waste Pollution of the Environment of the People's Republic of China" The Prevention and Control Law, the Interim Regulations on Express Delivery and other laws and administrative regulations formulate these measures.

3.Reduce secondary packaging, excessive packaging, 12 measures of the Ministry of Commerce to promote the green development of e-commerce

On January 11, the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce issued the "Notice on Promoting the Green Development of E-Commerce Enterprises" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"). The "Notice" requires that the "Notice" coordinately promote the green supply chain management of express packaging and encourage e-commerce companies to directly purchase from the place of production. , The original straight hair, single straight hair and other modes to reduce the amount of express packaging. Guide e-commerce companies to cooperate with commodity manufacturers to design and apply commodity packaging that meets the needs of express logistics and distribution, and reduce the secondary packaging of commodities in the express link. Guide e-commerce companies to cooperate with express delivery companies to improve the matching degree of packaged products and delivered items, jointly implement the relevant standards and specifications of express packaging, reduce excessive packaging and random packaging, and increase the amount of low-weight, high-strength express packaging cartons and glue-free cartons .

Encourage e-commerce companies to participate in the research and development of new technologies and products for express packaging recycling, and actively promote their applications. Innovative cooperation with express companies, commercial organizations, convenience stores and property service companies to establish recyclable express packaging recycling channels and explore the establishment of upstream and downstream connections , Cross-platform mutually recognized operating system. Promote fresh food e-commerce companies to promote the application of recyclable distribution boxes and reusable refrigerated express boxes in intra-city distribution.

4. The General Office of the State Council forwards the notice of the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments on accelerating the green transformation of express packaging

The notice pointed out that the basic principles of adhering to green development, adhering to innovation and leadership, and adhering to collaborative and co-governance. By 2025, the express packaging field will fully establish a legal, standard and policy system that is compatible with the green concept, and form a system that runs through express packaging production, use, and recycling. , A long-term governance mechanism for handling the entire chain; e-commerce express mail has basically realized no secondary packaging, and the application scale of recyclable express packaging has reached 10 million. Significant progress has been made in the development of new models and new business formats for packaging reduction and green recycling. Packaging basically achieved the goal of green transformation. Improve the system of laws and regulations, strengthen the top-level design of standardization work, and upgrade and improve express packaging standards.

5. Notice of 9 departments including the Ministry of Commerce on the issuance of the "Special Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of Commercial Logistics (2021-2025)"

通知中提出健全绿色物流体系。鼓励使用可循环利用环保包材，减少物流过程中的二次包装，推动货物包装和物流器具绿色化、减量化、可循环。大力推广节能和清洁能源运输工具与物流装备，引导物流配送企业使用新能源车辆或清洁能源车辆。发展绿色仓储，支持节能环保型仓储设施建设。加快构建新型再生资源回收体系，支持建设绿色分拣中心，提高再生资源收集、仓储、分拣、打包、加工能力，提升再生资源回收网络化、专业化、信息化发展水平。

6. Notice of the eight departments including the General Office of the Ministry of Transport on the promotion and application of standardized logistics turnover boxes

Standardized logistics turnover box refers to a small container container with foldable, recyclable and reusable, good technical performance, high quality and meets national standards. It can be widely used in many fields such as agricultural and sideline products, supermarket distribution, postal express, etc. . In recent years, with the continuous and rapid development of the logistics industry, the use of logistics packaging materials has continued to increase, causing a large amount of resource consumption and environmental pollution, and the packaging standards are not uniform, which seriously affects the efficiency of logistics transportation and circulation. Recycling and sharing of standardized logistics turnover boxes can effectively replace traditional packaging materials such as cartons, plastic bags, foam boxes, etc., greatly reduce the amount of disposable packaging, and realize the recyclability and reduction of logistics packaging, which is conducive to improving the market environment and promoting ecological civilization Construction. At the same time, as a standardized packaging and loading unit, the logistics turnover box can realize modular operation, containerized transportation, and intelligent sorting. It is a key element to promote the realization of green, modular, and mechanized operations in the logistics industry. Speeding up the promotion of the recycling and sharing of logistics turnover boxes is of great significance to reduce cargo loss, improve circulation efficiency, and support the high-quality development of the logistics industry. All regions and relevant departments must follow the principle of market leadership and government guidance, strengthen departmental coordination and policy support, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of market entities, and take effective measures to improve the standard system, improve infrastructure, expand the scope of application, and accelerate the construction Standardized logistics turnover box recycling sharing system.

1.People's Daily | Let "Light Packaging" Become a New Social Fashion

Excessive packaging not only brings troubles to consumers, but also becomes a practical problem related to environmental protection and green development that needs to be solved urgently. Although daily packaging is small, it is a big issue related to the green development of the industry. It is difficult to solve the problem of excessive packaging in one go. Regulatory departments, merchants, and consumers still need to work together to reduce excessive packaging from the source without abandoning trivial matters, so that "light packaging", simple packaging, and packaging recycling can become a new social trend.

2.Recycling shared packaging "appears" in Haikou, "one box, one yard" solves the problem of recycling and recycling

In recent years, e-commerce shopping has led to the rapid development of my country's express delivery industry, but at the same time, the demand for production materials such as logistics and packaging materials has increased significantly, and the problems of resource consumption and environmental impact have become increasingly prominent. On August 6, the online kick-off meeting for one of the pilot projects of the "Rethinking Plastics-Recycling Economy to Deal with Marine Waste" supported by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development was officially held. .

3.Shenzhen’s “plastic restriction order” upgrades the “plastic ban order” and promotes the construction of a “waste-free city”

In order to implement the relevant requirements of the "Shenzhen City's Implementation Plan for Further Strengthening of Plastic Pollution Control", create a market environment governance sample of "co-construction, co-governance, and sharing". It is reported that according to the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Treatment of Plastic Pollution" published by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, by the end of 2020, my country will take the lead in banning and restricting the production, sales and use of certain plastic products in certain areas across the country. By 2022 By the end of the year, all biodegradable alternative products will be vigorously promoted, the awareness of ecological and environmental protection of the whole nation will be enhanced, green production and consumption will be encouraged, and a healthy and civilized production lifestyle will be promoted.

4.Industry giants such as Mengniu are developing new packaging materials, and the flexible packaging market is booming

（1）Mengniu's double-layer environmentally friendly yogurt shrink film is thinner and does not lose quality

Recently, Mengniu has integrated its industrial ecological power, united with plastic raw material suppliers, packaging manufacturers, recycling and recyclers and other parties in the industrial chain to realize the recycling and utilization of plastic packaging for the first time in the domestic food industry, fully applying post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR) as a After all the packaging films for the products are switched to use, it is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 300 tons per year, reducing resource waste and carbon emissions on a large scale, and contributing to the promotion of the circular economy and the protection of the ecological environment. Mengniu insists on adhering to the 5R principle, and the key research directions in environmental packaging include: how to reduce food waste through packaging, achieve packaging lightweight, packaging recycling, packaging degradable and recyclable, and so on.

（2）Hangzhou Metelo uses distillers' grain protein to process and degrade packaging materials

Hangzhou Metelo New Material Technology Co., Ltd. has recently achieved a technological breakthrough in the field of degradable packaging materials, by extracting soft protein from distiller’s grains and mixing fibers to make degradable packaging. This material has lower production cost and shorter degradation cycle than PBAT and PLA. It is currently applying for a patent. Mettro has reached a strategic cooperation with Budweiser (China) in the supply of raw materials. It is expected to reach industrialization in 2024 and is expected to reduce the production cost per ton to about 10,000 yuan.

（3）Glenroy Flexible Packaging launches a series of sustainable packaging product portfolio

Glenroy, a US-based flexible packaging expert, has launched a "Sustainable Packaging Product Portfolio" to help brand owners in the food, pharmaceutical, pet food, health food, personal care and household product industries achieve sustainable development goals and solve global waste problems.