Plastic waste astonishing shopping packaging reduction1

Online logistics process, exist in the process of this online products tend to need more a layer of packaging to ensure internal security. Therefore, online shopping will produce more packaging, also led to the more the waste plastic packaging materials.

for a long time, many people think that online shopping is a kind of more environmentally friendly way of consumption. However, the survey found that is not the case. For example, consumers from the entity shop to buy a electronic products, general simply take electronic product sales of packaging, and through online shopping, electronic products come to hand, consumers often need to tear open the layer upon layer of logistics packaging tape, open the carton, cut the tape winding wrapped in bubble pad, finally to see electronic products. In that case, in addition to the electronic product sales of packaging, online shopping need to waste more than physical consumption of packaging use in several times.

according to media reports, the sending and receiving express total number around 4. 8 billion a year, according to each express calculated using one meter long tape, electronic products online packaging in our country every year the total length of PVC transparent tape used to nearly 120 laps around the earth along the equator, so each year online packaging waste quite striking. And used PVC transparent tape as rubbish buried in the soil will not degrade in 100, poses a great threat to the ecological environment.

so, online shopping packing especially electronics online shopping must consider reduction. On the one hand, online shopping packaging reduction available secondary recycling system to reduce the amount of packaging materials used; On the other hand, for can't repeated use of packaging materials, should be considered as a renewable materials to make other new packaging materials to use. In addition, from the functional design, also can use easy tear packing, avoid glue instead of the previous multi-layer packaging structure, such as to avoid secondary sealing, reduce the waste of online shopping packing material.

with the online electronic products packaging decrement continuously explore and practice actively, sure can quickly create electronics online shopping environment of green packaging.