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The ever-growing appetite of the surging Chinese express industry for cardboard boxes and transparent adhesive tape has brought about mass waste of wrapping materials in China, according to a report from the State Post Bureau.<\/p>\n

The report plots trends in the environmental impact of China\u2019s delivery industry and found that Chinese courier companies in 2015 used a total of almost 17 billion meters of adhesive tape. That\u2019s enough to encircle the earth\u2019s equator 425 times. Over the same period 9.9 billion cardboard boxes and 8.3 billion plastic sleeves were used.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the recycling rate of wrappings in the express industry is higher than that in other industries, the sheer volume of the packages is too big to prevent plastic pollution,\u201d said Mao Da, a senior researcher with the Beijing-based activist group Rock Environment and Energy Institute.<\/p>\n

Adhesive tape not only adds to the country\u2019s plastic waste woes<\/a>, but also means that the cardboard boxes on which it is stuck are more difficult to recycle or reuse, said Xing Kai, chairman of Beijing-based Yiside Logistics Technology Co. Ltd. Xing\u2019s company produces almost entirely biodegradable boxes that don\u2019t need adhesive plastic tape to seal and that can be opened with a single tearing motion. To seal an average box, about 1.1 to 1.5 meters of tape are used, Xing told Sixth Tone. Excessive use of tape, he said, meant that only about 20% of packages delivered in 2015 were reused.
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\nXing is one of a number of industry figures calling for a shift in the way resources are used and managed by delivery companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCompletely biodegradable wrappings do exist,\u201d said Tong Wenhong, CEO of internet-based logistics and supply chain platform Cainiao Network Technology, at a conference<\/a> organised by the China Post Express Daily in Beijing. But delivery companies, she said, don\u2019t use them because the costs are too high. According to Tong, for batches of over 10 million packages, the change to biodegradable wrappings would add about 0.5 yuan (US$0.07) to the production cost of each package.<\/p>\n

Xing\u2019s company has been marketing its boxes without the use of adhesive tape in China for the past one and a half years. Cost remains an issue in the promotion of the company\u2019s products, he said. \u201cThe cost of our box is about 10 to 50 percent higher than that of a conventional box needing adhesive tape,\u201d Xing added.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June, Cainiao announced that the company and its 32 business partners had pledged to do away with plastic materials and replace 50% of the wrappings with completely biodegradable materials by 2020.<\/p>\n

However, in the short-term, delivery companies\u2019 use of cardboard and plastic tape looks to only go up. A May report<\/a> predicted the industry would deliver 27.5 billion packages in 2016, a yearly increase of 34%.<\/p>\n

This blog is republished from Sixth Tone<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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