In the middle of the year, when will the internet promote the ＂buy a gift and return the pearl＂ packaging？

　　"I just bought a cup. When it arrived this morning, I thought I bought a set." Yesterday, the coffee cup bought by white-collar Xiao Cui on the online shopping platform arrived, but the box startled her. "Close to a big box with a length of 40 cm and a height of 30 cm, there is a small cup with a height of 7 cm." The "618" shopping festival has started, and the home of online shoppers like Xiao Cui may be "full of boxes" in these days.

　　June 17-23 is this year’s National Energy Conservation Publicity Week. According to a survey by Beijing Evening News reporters, in addition to gifts, over-packaging has become a common phenomenon in the fields of instant consumption for personal use, such as take-away meals, fruits and vegetables, drinks and express delivery. Experts said that packaging reduction requires the government, industry associations and platforms to do their part.

　　Takeaway: The lunch box for two people can be stacked 20 cm high.

　　"If you’ve eaten the takeout of noodles from Hefu, you’ll know that the packaging is simply grandiose." Xiao Yang’s company is located in Chaoyang District. Sometimes she eats out at noon and sometimes orders take-out. Among them, the take-out of noodles from Hefu impressed her deeply: "A big insulation bag, a plastic bowl of noodles, a plastic bowl of soup and a plastic box of snacks, and tableware are also printed separately ‘ Four Treasures of the Study ’ In the plastic packaging. "

　　Xiao Yang admits that such exquisite packaging makes the meal look "tall", and it does make the dining experience better: "The soup and noodles are packaged separately, and then mixed when eating, so that the noodles will not be smashed, but there are still some flashy places, such as insulation bags, which often do not play a fixed role, and will still be sprinkled. Moreover, although the insulation bags are not disposable, they are actually difficult to reuse and are finally thrown away. There is also some waste in the details, like half a sausage is also placed in a long plastic box. "

　　Jamlom, a freelancer, feels the same way about this. He often orders the take-out of Manling porridge shop at home: "When one porridge is delivered with two steamed or fried things, even if two steamed dumplings can be packed in one carton, the merchant must separate two boxes. If two people eat it together, the cardboard box will stack up 20 cm when throwing garbage at last."

　　Jamlom guessed that it may be more convenient for merchants to confirm whether they have enough weight, and the cost of dining boxes has replaced the labor cost, but this is obviously a waste of natural resources: "The paper box is too small to reuse other things, not to mention how many times it is clearly indicated that tableware is not needed, and merchants still send a bunch of disposable tableware."

　　The Beijing Evening News reporter found that in the comment areas of the above two businesses, exquisite packaging is a frequent label on the take-away platforms such as Hungry, Meituan, etc. Most customers have a positive attitude towards this, and only when there are obvious problems with the food will they question the packaging as "flashy".

　　Fruits and vegetables: Each banana is wrapped separately.

　　"A year ago, I was often in ‘ Tiantian Orchard ’ When you buy fruit on the App, its packaging is very excessive. Every kind of fruit you buy has a box, and there is a big cardboard box outside. It is very exquisite, but I really don’t think it is necessary. After all, the wool is on the sheep. " Ms. Zeng is the HR Commissioner of an enterprise. She told the Beijing Evening News reporter that any fruit purchased on this App is a carton of one kind. She made a special suggestion to the customer service. "I said that this packaging method is not environmentally friendly enough, and it is recommended to reuse it. The general meaning of the customer service reply is that this packaging is to protect the quality of the fruit, but I didn’t adopt my opinion anyway."

　　The reporter spent 69.8 yuan on the App to buy kiwi fruit and bananas. After the arrival, it was found that the packaging was indeed excessive: six kiwi fruits and six imported bananas used a 35×26×24 cm carton, a 31×28×8 cm carton, a 26×18×9 cm carton and 14 air bags.

　　"The daily fresh packaging is also a bit too much. Every time you buy something and throw two packages, the trash can at home will be full." Ms. Sun, who works in the procuratorate, told the reporter that she often buys vegetables and some frozen products. Vegetables are always in a plastic box, and the bubble bags used for packaging frozen products also take up a lot of space. "In fact, the delivery distance is very short, and most vegetables are not afraid of bumping. I don’t think it is necessary to have a plastic box for each."

　　Mr. Kang, who lives in beiyuan road, said that there is a similar situation in the freshness of physical stores: "Litchi, strawberries, tomatoes and apples in the fresh supermarket near my home can be sold in bulk, so we must wrap them in transparent plastic boxes."

　　Coffee: It’s a pity to throw it away in a grand way.

　　"Even the box of coffee is really beautiful and strong, and I can’t bear to throw it away when I send it." Xiao Chang is the product manager of an Internet company in Zhongguancun. For her, coffee is the best companion for overtime work, so she knows a lot about the take-away packaging of coffee shops around the company.

　　Even the packaging of coffee, including a paper bag, a paper box with aluminum foil inside and a cardboard buckle with spill prevention inside, "in fact, it can’t be completely over-packaged, but it is very strong, with good insulation and spill prevention effects. At first, it will be reserved for things, but because it is too frequent to drink, there is not much room for it in the office, and then it is a pity to throw it away directly." Xiao Chang said.

　　COSTA coffee has also received a lot of spit on social media because of almost the same packaging. Netizen @M Positive suggested in Weibo on May 11th: "I just ordered a mocha, so the packaging is too grand. It’s not that I don’t like it, but that the current take-away packaging is too wasteful. Over-packaging is really not environmentally friendly and wasteful. It would be better if there were simpler packaging. "

　　Beijing Evening News reporter ordered a latte takeaway of COSTA Coffee (Fenghui Times Store) near Financial Street on June 13th. After receiving it, he found that the packaging was simple paper bag and spill-proof cardboard buckle, which saved the paper box. After consulting customer service, the reporter learned that the store was simplifying the packaging recently.

　　"Look at the size of this packaging carton, which is close to 40 cm long and 30 cm high. There is a small cup with a height of 7 cm inside, and there are all loose air bags next to it." Xiao Cui, a white-collar worker, was quite frightened when she received the courier from Zara Home. "In fact, the box is easy to break when it is big, and the small box has small movable space, so it is not fragile. I don’t know what the merchants think."

　　Platform: Encourage environmental protection and reduced packaging.

　　The Beijing Evening News reporter contacted Meituan and Hungry for the problem of take-away meals and over-packaging of fruits.

　　The person in charge of Meituan’s public relations told the reporter that Meituan’s takeaway will push the environmental protection initiative letter in the background of the business and advocate moderate packaging; Time nodes related to environmental protection will also be advocated in public places, such as moderately packaged public service advertisements placed on subway buses last year; The US Mission Qingshan Partner Program is also recruiting merchants and packaging partners to jointly research and develop and pilot packaging reduction. For example, the pizza packaging jointly developed with Challenger Pizza and Debai Packaging Laboratory has reduced paper use by 50%.

　　Hungry means that for the existing platform merchants, on the basis of business qualification, food safety and other basic requirements, higher requirements are put forward for the take-away packaging, food delivery bags, disposable tableware and tableware packaging and back-end processing of "Blue Planet Merchants". This year, research and development of alternative and transitional plastic-reducing materials will be carried out for a certain category of packaging on the platform.

　　"Overpackaging is a rare situation, and only high-end businesses will do it. After all, the cost of packaging is also a problem to be considered. The average unit price of takeaway customers is only 20 to 30 yuan, and most businesses will not work too hard on packaging." An industry insider who asked not to be named told reporters that the relationship between the platform and the merchants is not management and managed, but cooperation, which determines that the platform can’t control the over-packaging behavior of the merchants: "In order to be beautiful and make consumers feel high-end, they work hard on packaging, and even over-package. The platform and the merchants are independent legal persons, and the platform can’t stop it. It can only be said that they are recommended to use environmentally friendly materials."

　　Expert: all parties should do their part to reduce packaging.

　　"When it comes to over-packaging, the first thing that comes to mind is moon cakes and gift boxes. Now this over-packaging has actually decreased. On the other hand, with the great development of express delivery, take-away and other industries, the frequency of packaging in these industries is getting higher and higher, and some businesses will over-package in order to look high-end, and a large amount of packaging waste will be generated every day." Qiu Jizhong, Deputy Secretary-General of Beijing Design Society, told reporters at the launch day of Beijing Energy Conservation Publicity Week in 2019 and the release conference of the first green packaging design solicitation activity.

　　Li Jinghua, president of Beijing Packaging Technology Association, said that there are indeed some merchants who lack the awareness of saving materials, but from another perspective, take-away, express delivery and fresh packaging are the first to protect goods. It is impossible to ask merchants to ignore the protection of goods in order to save materials. "This requires more efforts in packaging material selection and structural design to prevent merchants from having to use excessive packaging to protect goods."

　　Qiu Jizhong introduced that some problems of over-packaging can indeed be solved by optimizing the design. "For example, a carton with an internal Z-shaped structure was collected this time, and the use of packaging paper and fillers was reduced through structural changes."

　　Qiu Jizhong introduced that environmental protection standards for packaging in different sub-sectors have been formulated. After the introduction of the standards, there will be a clear definition of what belongs to environmental protection packaging and what belongs to over-packaging, which will guide platforms and businesses.

　　"The government should promote the formulation of relevant standards, laws and regulations, industry associations should help implement and help the landing, and the platform should participate in advocating packaging reduction, doing its best and doing its part." Li Jinghua said.

　　Our reporter Bai Gewen took a picture of Gaoxia.