This article is from WeChat public account: IT Times (ID: vittimes) , author: Qian Yi Yun, from the title figure: vision China

November 22, at 6 o’clock in the evening, night fell. In a community where more than 900 people lived, three brothers from Zhongtong squatted on the ground and were busy packing packages. On the ground, there are piles of courier to be shipped.

After the double eleven, the “return tide” has begun.

The courier products that are sent back to the merchants are mostly wrapped in disposable plastic bags from courier companies, wrapped in layers of tape, and packed in small cartons, but they have a variety of appearances.

“Where did the shipping box come from?”

“I solved it myself, I picked it up, and bought it from the waste recycling bin. You see, this is a cardboard box bought from an acquaintance today. It’s medium-sized and costs 3 yuan each.”

“I heard that Cainiao and Zhongtong cooperate in the ‘Back Box Project’, do you know?”

“I don’t know.” The brother said, wrapping a thick bubble film and tape around a slender object.

1.292 billion, this year’s double 11 Tmall logistics orders reached a new record. However, this online shopping feast also brings a huge amount of packaging waste.

In recent years, many e-commerce and logistics companies have launched courier packaging recycling programs in order to encourage multiple cycles of courier packaging, but an investigation by the “IT Times” reporter found that these recycling plans have not progressed smoothly.

01, the “forgotten” green recycling bin

Mr. Li, who lives in Jing’an District, is also quite troubled. After Double 11, the delivery was continuous. Every day, he would carry a stack of cardboard boxes to the garbage station. However, once he missed the designated opening hours of the garbage station, the cardboard boxes in his home would be almost piled up, and there was no place to go.

“Do you know that you can give the box to the courier brother?” “I don’t know, the brother didn’t say anything.”

In August of this year, Cainiao Liantong, Yuantong, Shentong, Yunda, and Best issued the “Return Box Plan”. As a leading city, Shanghai has the first batch of 1,000 green recycling boxes. The removed carton is placed in a recycling bin for easy reuse. At that time, media reported that Yuantong had laid nearly 7,500 green recycling bins at its mother station.

However, when the “IT Times” reporter visited a “mother station” and several courier sites in a community in Shanghai on November 24, they did not see the green recycling bin, and the courier brother also said that he had not heard of “ Return to Box ”, and only one of the 10 residents who came to“ Mom ’s Station ”to pick up the item was faintly aware of the Return to Box.

In a questionnaire designed by the reporter, only 16 of the 143 interviewees had seen a rookie green recycling bin and 3 had used a recycling bin.

Aside from Cainiao Alliance ’s “Return to Box Program”, JD.com also has a similar recycling box.

Last week, a reporter from the “IT Times” visited the “Jingdong faction” site of a college in Beijing. I saw a prominent green recycling bin at the door, but it was full of express plastic bags and various garbage. A cardboard box. The person in charge of the site was not clear about the condition of the recycling bin. The reporter stayed there for half an hour. No student removed the courier box, put it in a recycling box or gave it to the staff.

Not far away, in a large JD logistics site, the recycling bins are much larger than the “JD.com”, but empty. The person in charge of the site said thatan> Material replaces the carton and replaces the sealing tape with its own lock.

At present, Suning Logistics has launched more than 400,000 shared express boxes nationwide, which can save at least 40 million cartons a year. In addition, two-dimensional code shared express boxes have also been introduced to replace electronic coupons. They calculated it: the average cost of a shared express box is around 15 yuan, which is about 10 times that of a traditional carton. However, a circular express box can be used more than 40 times, and the total cost of recycling can save 70% compared to the cost of traditional carton boxes.

In June 2018, SF launched the Feng Box recycling packaging box, which is mainly nylon cloth, and uses zipper instead of sealing tape. At present, Shunfeng has invested hundreds of thousands of Feng Boxes, with a total of millions of uses, with an average single-cycle use of nearly 10 times, and a single box with a maximum of 42 times, reducing carbon emissions by about 1,600 tons.

However, these alternative packages have been implemented for one or two years.