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80% consumers: support the public packaging consumption of e-commerce express delivery enterprises

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By testPublished 2 years ago 3 min read

Did you hear that?

According to the survey, 80% of consumers think that e-commerce express delivery companies have not solved the pollution of express delivery, and such companies should disclose the consumption of packaging.

According to a report released by the United Nations in 2019, the world's population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050, and the resources needed to maintain our existing habits are equivalent to three Earths. Therefore, it is imperative to promote sustainable consumption and production from now on! !

Look at our life now, which do you think is the most wasteful way of consumption, online shopping, order takeout or abuse plastic bags.

For express packaging waste, we conducted a survey on how the public view express garbage. The following are the results of a survey of 4118 netizens:

Q: do you think that express garbage is rampant and is in urgent need of change?

More than 60% of the respondents believe that there should be a practical solution to the problem of express garbage as soon as possible.

In the face of these wasteful consumption patterns that produce a lot of packaging waste, what can we do as consumers? our survey found:

In order to avoid producing express packaging waste

"reducing online shopping" is the choice of nearly 50% of consumers

Q: in order to reduce the production of express packaging, will you deliberately avoid / reduce online shopping as much as possible

Well, for those consumers who choose to shop online, can they only silently become accomplices in the online shopping garbage disaster?

No.

Certainly not

Obviously, consumers only want goods purchased online, and the express packaging generated by the delivery of goods to consumers is a problem that online shopping service providers should consider and solve. As consumers, we hope that the online shopping platform can provide a more environmentally friendly way of express delivery. In fact, in recent years, we have seen that some e-commerce platforms and express delivery companies have indeed taken some actions in this regard, such as recycling express cartons, using electronic waybills, and promoting reusable recycling boxes.

But how do consumers think these actions are effective?

Q: what do you think of the actions taken by e-commerce and express delivery platforms to reduce express packaging?

More than 30% of the respondents said that the resolution actions of the relevant enterprises were "poor" or "not seen", nearly half of the respondents said that the solution actions were average, while only about 20% of the respondents thought the results were good.

Will the action effect of e-commerce and express delivery companies reduce packaging affect consumers' choice of platform? according to our survey, more than 70% of consumers said:

Yes!

Q: will the effectiveness of actions taken by e-commerce platforms and express delivery companies to reduce packaging problems affect your choice of platforms?

Consumers are not satisfied with the environmental protection actions taken by e-commerce and express delivery companies to reduce express packaging, so what can consumers do to promote change?

We suggest that you can:

Express it!

As the food and clothing parents of enterprises, consumers should use our banknotes as ballots for those enterprises that can bring us a better future. For e-commerce platforms and express delivery companies, which company is more worthy of our "vote"?

It, or it?

It's hard to choose whether it's right or not.

They all seem to be the same.

What can we do

The answer is:

Enterprises should take the initiative to publish their transcripts.

Enterprises should take the initiative to announce to the public their effectiveness in solving the problem of express packaging. For e-commerce and express companies, how to deal with the problem of express packaging is the primary focus of environmental protection, and the due diligence of this work is an unavoidable part of the company's corporate social responsibility to the public. In this regard, according to our investigation, we found that:

More than 80% of the respondents agreed

E-commerce and express delivery enterprises should

Annual announcement of consumption

The quantity of express package and the effect of environmental protection action

Advocacy

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