The most plastic bags for express delivery on the market are made of "recycled materials". The State Post Bureau issued an implementation plan for green packaging.
Receiving a courier is sticky with dust? You may have received an unhealthy express package! The reporter’s investigation found that all kinds of plastic bags with the most express packaging on the market are "toxic", and because they are made of "recycled materials", a large number of harmful substances may remain. As Wechat business, e-commerce, logistics enterprises and other links reduce costs layer by layer, unhealthy postal parcels become more and more common.
Text/Guangzhou Daily reporter Liu Ranran
Correct opening method of express parcel
1. Put old newspapers or other papers on the table, and put the courier on it.
2. Cut the tape with scissors or a paper cutter, pick up the package and take out the courier, preferably wearing gloves.
Wash your hands thoroughly with soap or hand sanitizer immediately, and then enjoy the goods in the courier.
4. After unpacking the parcel, the express package should be cleaned outdoors or in a ventilated place in time and reasonably, and should not be hoarded around the desk or at home.
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After the "mouth tearing express", the corners of the mouth are festering and festering.
"Originally ‘ Tear express ’ It is really possible to die. " Netizen Bo reported that after a woman in Xiamen tore the express package with her bare hands and bit it with her teeth, not only red pimples appeared on her mouth, but also pus and fester. After the dermatologist ruled out all possibilities, she judged that she might be allergic to tearing the express package.
The reporter visited and found that some people had a "red rash" on their hands after unpacking the courier bag, and some people were immediately "smoked" by the irritating smell after opening the courier bag. Most people often found that the courier bag was dirty, with a layer of dust on it, and there was an odor.
A doctor from the Department of Respiratory Medicine of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University told the reporter that almost every day, patients in the Department of Respiratory Medicine are allergic, sneezing, crying and vomiting due to unpacking express delivery, and this past summer, there were so many people who were allergic to their hands and mouth due to direct contact with express delivery bags that some people even needed hospitalization: "Now you have to buy rolls of toilet paper online. With the increasing popularity of express delivery, the resulting garbage and pollution are also in citizens’ homes every day ‘ Enter the room ’ . Many people only care about receiving express delivery happily, but they completely ignore the pollution sources in their hands. "
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Weighing more than 10 grams, the U disk is 26 times overweight after packaging.
At a courier outlet in Tianhe District, the reporter saw that even an ordinary small piece of courier similar to a USB flash drive should be tightly packed with "three layers inside and three layers outside", and the packaged express mail is ten times heavier than the real thing.
After the courier put the U disk into a small paper box, he filled the space with bubble film and soft recycled paper, and then wrapped transparent glue around the paper box. That’s not all. Although it has been packaged with transparent glue, the courier also put a gray plastic express package bag on the outside, put the express bill on the plastic bag and wrapped it with transparent glue several times until it fits perfectly.
Bubble film, soft recycled paper, paper box, transparent adhesive, plastic bag … … Why does a USB flash drive that doesn’t weigh more than ten grams have to be wrapped so much? The courier told the reporter, "This is not enough. I used to pack sunglasses for Wechat business. A pair of glasses had to be wrapped around for more than a dozen times inside and outside, and a large piece of light bubble pad was needed … …”
According to reports, the reason why every courier has to be packed almost harshly is to ensure that the goods are intact when they are delivered to the buyer; The excessive use of plastic products is to prevent express delivery from being rained on the road. Moreover, there is no double-sided tape on the back of most express orders. If you want to stick it directly on the express package, you have to stick a layer of transparent adhesive &hellip in all directions without dead ends. … And this dozen grams of U disk, when it was finally sent out, has reached nearly 500 grams with packaging, which is 26 times its weight.
Secret 1
Sometimes there are more bacteria on the express package than on the toilet lid.
The person in charge of the quality control department of an enterprise that OEM produces plastic bags for express delivery told the reporter that at present, the packaging bags used by express delivery companies are usually polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or polyethylene (PE). The raw materials of such packaging are mostly chemical materials and domestic garbage. The main raw materials are old plastics. Although the cost is very low, a large number of harmful substances such as plasticizers and flame retardants may remain. Moreover, the waste plastics may still remain the pollution when they are used for the first time.
The reporter learned from the Third Hospital of South Medical University that some harmful chemicals left in express packaging may cause human allergies or decline in skin immune function, and in severe cases, it may affect the liver and kidneys through blood circulation. Although chemicals need to be volatilized at high temperature or for a long time, at present, centralized sorting and long-distance container transportation are generally adopted in the logistics industry, which may not only aggravate the pollution efficiency, but also contaminate the bacteria and pollution carried by the packager and the surrounding environment, further increasing its dirtiness. "The bacteria on a courier package are sometimes much more than those on the toilet lid, and even equal to turning over the trash can."
Secret 2
Reduce costs layer by layer to create unhealthy postal parcels.
"In fact, this is a vicious circle brought about by compression costs." Xiaoyan, a Wechat business who often sends express delivery, told the reporter, "Now the competition between Taobao and Wechat business is too fierce. Most merchants have introduced parcel post to attract customers, and the cost of express delivery is borne by themselves. Therefore, we usually choose our own logistics providers, and the express packaging used is relatively cheap, the quality is poor and not environmentally friendly. In order to ensure that the goods are not damaged by violent sorting, sun and rain on the way, we can only ask the courier to pack several layers … … In this way, there may be one more pollution for every extra layer of packaging. "
"Especially for some fragile products, if the road is damaged, the courier and the merchant need to pay the bill together." A courier said that their response is simple: wrap several more layers. Why not switch to more environmentally friendly and durable packaging materials? When the courier was asked this question, he looked helpless: "If each courier can earn more than ten yuan or even dozens of yuan, who doesn’t want to use good packaging materials, but now a courier bag only earns one yuan and eighty cents, how can it afford a good packaging bag?" The courier also said that all express delivery companies are now adopting a "simple and extensive" way to seize the market, and no one wants to lose users with high orders such as "Wechat business" and "E-commerce" because of better packaging materials, so they can only bite their teeth and use low-priced packaging materials.
As a result, the courier violently sorts, the transportation process is exposed to the sun and rain, the express packaging is getting thicker and thicker, and the cost of a single plastic bag is repeatedly compressed … … It has formed a vicious circle, and it has also caused many citizens who love online shopping to encounter "poison parcels" more frequently.
How to tell:
Look at the parcel by color
Not completely reliable
Is there an industry standard for express delivery in plastic bags? How do express delivery companies in Guangzhou do it? The reporter learned from Guangzhou Post that at present, Guangzhou has compiled the "Specifications for Goods Mail Packaging and Selling Products". The plastic film packaging bags of the postal system are made of resin as the main raw material, and after die-cutting, printing and sealing, they are made into environmentally-friendly bag-type packaging products that can be directly used by users. The courier has the responsibility to ensure the cleanliness and hygiene of the parcel during the period of receiving the courier until it is delivered to the home. In other words, as long as citizens send things from the post office, they hardly have to worry about receiving "poisonous parcels" and "polluted parcels".
The relevant person in charge of SF Express also told the reporter that at present, they have carefully classified the seven packaging materials of express delivery, and strictly classified the packaging raw materials that can be recycled, reused and used once, and the required materials have also passed the inspection of relevant departments. If the public finds that the express package is damaged and polluted during transportation, they can refuse it.
Recently, there is a popular saying on the Internet: "You can tell whether the express package is poisonous or not by looking at the color": paper express package is the most expensive and rarely seen; Followed by white plastic bags, about 0.25 yuan each, which are relatively rare and have the least pollution in plastic packaging; Once again, it is green and yellow, half is made of old materials and half is made of new materials, and aviation parts are occasionally visible; The most common is gray-black, which is almost made of "recycled materials" and may leave a lot of harmful substances. For this statement, people in the industry said: "The statement that gray-black pollution is great is because the recycled old plastics are colorful, and it is easiest to cover the primary colors by adding gray-black, but it is not reliable to judge the pollution degree and the adverse effects on people’s health. The best way is to use high-quality materials of high-end logistics. "
Relevant policies
Introduce a plan to promote
Express green packaging
According to the website of the central government, China’s express delivery exceeded 20.6 billion pieces in 2015, ranking first in the world. However, the huge amount and variety of packaging in the express delivery industry and the environmental problems it brings have also attracted great attention from the society. The State Post Bureau recently issued the Implementation Plan for Promoting Green Packaging in Express Industry (hereinafter referred to as the Implementation Plan) to improve the utilization efficiency of express packaging, reduce packaging consumption and reduce environmental pollution.
The "Implementation Plan" requires that during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the use rate of environmentally-friendly boxes, bags and tapes that meet the standard requirements in the express delivery industry will increase substantially, and the use of transfer boxes, cage cars and other equipment will be promoted to further reduce the use of woven bags and tapes. By 2020, packaging materials with excessive toxic and harmful substances will be basically eliminated, and a socialized recycling system for express packaging will be basically established.
In view of the problem of "over-packaging" that express users reflect more, the plan proposes to encourage enterprises to explore simple packaging and reduce secondary packaging.
