Under the plastic ban, the demand for degradable plastic packaging broke out, and five years later it reached this number!

Express plastic packaging will be gradually banned by 2025 for express plastic packaging, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecological Environment, the two departments stressed that by the end of 2022, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces and cities of the postal express outlets, the first prohibition of the use of non-degradable plastic bags, disposable plastic woven bags, etc., to reduce the use of non-degradable plastic tape.
By the end of 2025, non-degradable plastic bags, plastic tape, disposable plastic woven bags, etc. will be banned from postal courier outlets nationwide.

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Compared to 2019, the impact of the plastic ban will result in an increase of 16.59 billion pieces in potential demand for paper packaging express delivery in 2025 and 38.85 billion pieces in plastic packaging express delivery using biodegradable plastics;

1, express business volume has maintained steady growth, in 2019 a total of 63.5 billion pieces by the rapid growth of e-commerce business in recent years, China's express business is booming. In 2013-2016, the growth rate of China's express delivery business remained above 50%, while in 2017-2019, the growth rate decreased, but remained above 20%. In 2018, the volume of business of express service enterprises completed 50.71 billion units, an increase of 26.6% YoY. According to the latest data released by the State Post Office, in 2019, China's total express delivery business reached 63.52 billion units, an increase of 25.3% year-on-year. In terms of the volume of express delivery business in various provinces and cities, the top three provinces and cities in 2019 were Guangdong (16.806 billion units), Zhejiang (13.263 billion units) and Jiangsu (5.741 billion units). According to the Opinions on Further Strengthening Plastic Pollution Control, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other key provinces and cities will pilot the ban on single-use plastic packaging. In 2019, the total volume of express delivery business in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces and cities was 30,586 million units, accounting for 48.17% of the total express delivery business in China.

From the nature of enterprises, in recent years, the proportion of private enterprise express business has declined. In 2018, private enterprise express business accounted for 86.2% of the total express delivery volume, down 4.1 percentage points from 2016. The proportion of express business of state-owned enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises increased.

2, plastic ban to promote express paper packaging and degradation of plastic demand express packaging mainly to corrugated cartons and plastic bags. The main materials of express packaging include corrugated cartons, plastic bags, tape, express shipping slips and fillers. According to the environmental protection organization Greenpeace, get rid of plastic binding and the China Environmental Protection Federation jointly released the "China Express packaging waste generation characteristics and management status of the status of research report" survey data show that in 2018, China Express packaging mainly corrugated cartons and plastic bags. Among them, corrugated cartons accounted for 44.0% (by piece), plastic bags accounted for 33.5%.

Source: National Post Office: Forward-Looking Industrial Research Institute according to the type of material, express packaging materials can be divided into paper and plastic categories.
In 2018, China consumed a total of 856.05 million tons of paper express packaging materials, accounting for 90.95 percent of express packaging materials;
Plastic packaging materials 8518 million tons, accounting for 9.05 percent of express packaging materials. Among them, paper packaging is mainly corrugated paper, accounting for up to 96.18%, plastic packaging materials mainly include plastic bag film (excluding pearl bags and filled film plastic), woven bags, foam boxes, pearl bags, tape and filled plastic, among which ordinary plastic bag film accounted for the highest proportion, the quality accounted for 62.90%. For express plastic bag film, about 80% of the quality ratio is recycled by waste, its waste is easy to cause environmental pollution.

3, plastic ban to stimulate the express industry corrugated paper and biodegradable plastics demand growth according to the growth rate of China's express business volume in recent years, by 2025, China's express business volume will reach 134.9 billion pieces, a compound annual growth rate of 13.4%.

In 2019, of the 63.52 billion express deliveries nationwide, paper packaging couriers accounted for about 58.6% (including corrugated cartons, paper bags, set cartons, according to 2018), plastic packaging couriers accounted for about 41.1% (including plastic bags, pearl bags, woven bags, foam materials), and other types accounted for 0.4%. According to the "Opinion on Further Strengthening Plastic Pollution Control" plan, by 2022, the country's key provinces and cities express plastic packaging will be banned non-degradable plastics, in 2019 key provinces and cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong) express delivery business accounted for 48.17% of the country, by 2025 the national express banned non-degradable plastics. The materials that replace non-degradable plastics are paper packaging (mainly corrugated paper), and the second is biodegradable plastics, assuming that 30% of the non-degradable plastic materials are replaced by paper materials and 70% of the materials are replaced by biodegradable plastics, the proportion of plastic packaging express delivery will drop to 35.2% by 2022 and to 28.8% by 2025. Source: National Post Office: Institute of Forward-Looking Industries.
Compared to 2019 (as a percentage), the impact of the plastic ban will lead to 16.59 billion pieces of paper packaging express potential demand in 2025, the potential demand for plastic packaging express using biodegradable plastics increased by 38.85 billion pieces (in 2019 the proportion of domestic plastic packaging express using biodegradable plastic is well below 1%, ignoring). In paper packaging express, corrugated paper use accounted for 96.18 percent, according to a single piece of paper packaging express for 288.08 grams, a single piece of plastic packaging 40.87 grams of calculation, in 2025, affected by the ban on plastic, for express packaging corrugated paper potential demand increase of 4.5966 million tons, degradable plastic potential demand increase of 1.5878 million tons.