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Source: Qilu Net Author: 2017-09-28 23:20:09

Recently, the prices of cardboard boxes and their raw materials in China have risen sharply, causing many people to exclaim that crazy cardboard boxes are coming. When it comes to the rise in cardboard prices, an elderly couple in Jinan who recycle waste cardboard boxes are overjoyed.

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Previously, it was 47 cents, but now it costs over one yuan. This pile can be sold for more than a hundred yuan. In recent years, this year can be said to be the highest, and there hasn't been anything higher than this in recent years. "The elderly woman in the waste recycling industry said that since September last year, the price of used cardboard boxes, which were once ignored, has suddenly skyrocketed. Now, the price is more than twice that of the same period last year, which has also increased their income significantly.

The price of new cardboard boxes has doubled, and the paper is priced at one price per day

The rise in the price of used cardboard boxes is driven by the continuous surge in the price of new cardboard boxes. Data shows that the price of new cardboard boxes produced by domestic packaging factories has doubled compared to two months ago. The mainstream packaging boxes that were previously priced between 1 and 3 yuan have now directly entered the 3 to 6 yuan range after the price increase. In August of this year, the average price of national waste yellow cardboard, one of the raw materials for cardboard boxes, reached 2156 yuan per ton, a year-on-year increase of 70.43%. As September approaches, raw material prices have increased multiple times, with some paper mills even charging one price per day.

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The reporter interviewed a person in charge of a packaging box manufacturer over the phone, and he said, "Nowadays, many manufacturers are short of resources, and they will directly ask you to pay cash to pick up the goods. They say 3000 yuan is 3000 yuan, and 5000 yuan is 5000 yuan. We expect it to rise again

Taobao shop owner shouts' can't handle it 'online products will increase in price

Packaging cardboard boxes are one of the core materials for e-commerce enterprises, and the rise in cardboard box prices undoubtedly brings huge cost pressure to e-commerce enterprises. A Taobao shop owner talked about the recent increase in cardboard box prices and exclaimed repeatedly that they could not bear it. The impact is huge. I started to feel nervous a while ago, and this period has been very tight. The delivery cycle is long, and prices have skyrocketed. Previously, we could send out incoming goods in a week, but now we don't know if we can produce them in a week

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The Taobao shop owner stated that the rise in cardboard prices has had a huge impact. In order to balance costs, many e-commerce platforms are now raising prices for their products, and consumers will soon bear the continued increase in costs. The shop owner said that if the product does not increase in price, they will hardly make any profit.

Pushing high consumption packaging formats to change, experts call for the establishment of a recycling system

For e-commerce practitioners, the recent rise in cardboard prices is undoubtedly a significant crisis, but this crisis not only increases the operating costs of e-commerce practitioners, but also indicates that the high consumption e-commerce packaging industry has reached a time when it must be changed.

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In recent years, while China's e-commerce economy has developed rapidly, it has also brought considerable environmental pollution, and excessive cardboard packaging is one of them. According to statistics from the National Postal Service, in 2016, the business volume of China's express delivery industry exceeded 30 billion pieces, with cardboard boxes being the most widely used express packaging in e-commerce. China's e-commerce industry uses over 9.92 billion cardboard boxes annually, and this data is expected to continue to grow in 2017. The reason for excessive packaging in e-commerce is not only due to factors such as not paying attention to environmental protection, but also objectively because the price of cardboard packaging is relatively low and does not account for much of the operating cost.

Due to the long-term low price of cardboard waste, there has been a lack of motivation for recycling for operators, consumers, and others, which directly hinders the development and growth of the e-commerce waste recycling market.

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Zhang Zhonglian, Secretary General of the Shandong Circular Economy Association, said, "At present, our entire recycling system for express packaging waste has not been established. Currently, express waste is mainly incinerated and landfilled. Even in big cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, express waste is casually thrown into the garbage bin, causing waste of resources and not being fully utilized. In this case, this recycling system needs the attention of society to establish a normal, standard, and standardized recycling system

Due to the recent increase in cardboard prices, many e-commerce companies have begun to focus on recycling cardboard boxes in order to reduce their packaging costs. The Taobao shop owner said, "Now some boxes that look similar have started to be recycled, so this is the only way

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Urgent need for the government, enterprises, and consumers to jointly establish a supporting recycling mechanism

Industry insiders say that although the rise in cardboard prices has brought about an increase in e-commerce costs in the short term, it is also forcing the e-commerce industry to make improvements and changes in production and packaging methods. At present, it is urgent to rectify e-commerce pollution, and solving this problem requires efforts from various aspects such as the government, enterprises, and society.

Zhang Zhonglian said, "In the current process of building a recycling system, there are many problems in the entire industry chain of garbage and packaging material recycling that have not been clarified. The next step is to clarify these responsibilities, and then the recycling system can be well regulated. If we can recycle and reuse such a large amount of express packaging materials, and then reproduce and process them into the express packaging materials we need, it will largely solve the problem of market packaging material shortage, and secondly, the price can be restored to a normal level that everyone can accept

The price increase of cardboard boxes this time is a hurdle for the existing business model of e-commerce, but it is also an opportunity for the transformation and optimization of China's environmental protection and e-commerce business model. We hope that governments at all levels can quickly adopt and establish a garbage collection mechanism that is compatible with e-commerce, and promote the green and healthy development of e-commerce. For ordinary consumers, don't just throw away the cardboard boxes at home. Ask about the recycling prices in the surrounding area, and perhaps they can sell at a good price recently.

[Editor in charge: Yang Fan, Cui Weili, Zhao Yuguang]