Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, IDAEA-CSIC, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Waste Management (FEWS) Program, Center for Sustainable Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar.
Sci Total Environ. 2022 Jul 15;830:154759. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154759. Epub 2022 Mar 23.
The rapid growth of the express delivery industry resulted in the explosion of packaging waste with a wide range of direct and indirect environmental consequences. Until recently, little attention was given to this topic, but e-commerce and the associated growth of packaging waste exploded with the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though the phenomenon is only little to moderately documented, the waste problems in express delivery are recognized and caused by excessive packaging, lack of recyclability of the packaging material, and the low motivation of consumers to recycle. Key research, policy, and educational actions to reduce the environmental impacts of the fast-growing express delivery industry are discussed in this short discussion article.
快递业的快速增长导致包装废弃物的大量涌现，对环境造成了广泛的直接和间接影响。直到最近，人们才开始关注这个问题，但随着 COVID-19 疫情的爆发，电子商务和相关包装废弃物的增长速度呈爆炸式增长。尽管这一现象的记录还很少，但快递业的浪费问题已经引起了人们的关注，其主要原因是包装过度、包装材料缺乏可回收性以及消费者回收的积极性较低。本文对减少快速增长的快递业对环境的影响的关键研究、政策和教育行动进行了讨论。
