CCTV again focused on paper prices, a year up 70 percent

From the fourth quarter of last year, the rising frequency of paper prices more and more high, even within a week to rise twice, "Luoyang paper expensive" phenomenon staged several times, I believe that many peer circle of friends by one and another price letter brush screen, paper price rise has caused the whole society's high attention, CCTV economic channel is reported many times!

This is not, the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday just ended, CCTV economic channel for the eighth time to focus on the paper packaging industry. Due to the rising paper price, the soaring carton price directly raises the operation cost of e-commerce, many netizens have joked: "This year's Double 11 not only to grab goods, may also have to grab express cartons."

E-commerce companies suffer "carton crisis" with a year-on-year increase of 70%

On the last day of the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the boss Ma, a carton wholesaler, bought two carloads of goods early in the morning, because recently the carton price is one price per day, he worried that the demand is large after the holiday, the price may continue to rise, so he increased the quantity of goods: "Because of the increase in raw materials, we have to prepare a little goods every day, this year has risen several times."

Ma said that compared with the same period last year, the price of various specifications of carton has increased by at least 70 percent, and since the beginning of the year, the supply is tight, carton factory often delayed delivery. "Orders used to take two days, but now sometimes they take four or five days," Ma said.

Reporter: Are supplies a little tight right now?

Mr. Ma: Yeah.

Reporter: What kind of carton will be tight?

Mr. Ma: It's the same for cartons of all sizes.

Carton prices are rising wildly, and e-commerce companies engaged in online trading are the first to be affected. Tan Dongming, who does hardware trade in Jingxi Street, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, revealed that an ordinary express carton costs at least 1 to 2 yuan: "Sometimes 200 to 300 pieces are shipped a day, even if the price rises 20 cents each time, a day will lose dozens of pieces."

The rising price of cartons not only increases the operating costs of e-commerce, but also has a great impact on manufacturers engaged in manufacturing. Take color boxes as an example. Last year, the price was 7 yuan, but now the price is close to 12 yuan. Li Wenxiao, the person in charge of the electric control door production company, said: "A thing you send out, you must use a carton, if not, in the way of transportation, many products will be damaged."

Reporter: Are there any alternatives?

Li Wenxiao: No, I can't help it. There is no way. Cartons must be necessary.

Is "one box hard to Find" recycling feasible?

The price of cardboard box continues to rise, the use of waste cardboard box has again caused social concern. Earlier, a number of express delivery companies in Guangdong province announced that they would introduce green packaging materials. So, what about the implementation? Guo, who likes to shop online, swept a lot of goods during the National Day holiday and "just threw them away" after unwrapping them.

Reporter: You're not going to sell it for money or anything?

Mr. Guo: No, how much can a small one like this cost?

Reporter: If it's a big one, will you stay and sell it?

Mr. Guo: No, it takes up a lot of space.

Don't think the waste carton is not valuable, in fact, its price has long risen from 30 cents a catty, to 8 to 9 cents a catty. A resident of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, said, "Many people will pick up what they didn't pick up before, including people walking, people passing by, and us elderly people who pick up garbage."

At present, the recycling way of waste cartons is relatively simple. Generally, after recycling by the waste recycling station, they are sent to the carton manufacturer, which is pulped to produce new cartons, and then return to the market. In order to save resources, well-known express delivery companies such as Tailwind and Sitong Yida proposed the use of green packaging materials in Guangdong Province this year. However, this reporter visited several express business online stores and found that couriers knew nothing about green packaging materials.

Courier: I don't know. I haven't seen it.

Reporter: Haven't you?

Courier: Yes, I don't know which one you mean.

Express company responsible person said: "e-commerce and product manufacturers play a decisive role in the use of cartons, believe that the crazy price of cartons will increase the cost of many manufacturers, so as to reduce excessive packaging of goods, promote the recycling of cartons."

On Double 11 every year, there are about 1 billion express cartons produced in a single day. In 2017, the number of express waste in China will reach 40 billion pieces, but the recovery rate of traditional cartons in our country is less than 20%. Before this, there have been many places, many logistics enterprises have tried recycling or secondary packaging and other methods, but after all, the thunder is big, little rain.

The bottom line is that legislation and standards for the Courier recycling industry have been slow to emerge. In fact, express packaging recycling in many countries have provisions, such as the United States for recycling packaging enterprises for a certain amount of tax reduction, France will transfer the responsibility of the main body to consumers, hoping that the carton crisis can become an opportunity for environmental protection.

Nowadays, our printing and packaging enterprises face many difficulties, such as the price of paper, but this is only the current predicament, do enterprises, we should see more long-term, forward-looking. So for enterprises, there is another problem is more urgent, that is, transformation and upgrading.