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Huidu Environmental: Creating a circular economy to ease online retail's parcel waste woes

  • China
  • 4 min read
  • Aug 28, 2019
  • By Hua Nan

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China's billion-dollar courier industry finds much-needed solution in Huidu's eco-friendly, low-cost boxes and smart recycling system

Amid rising environmental consciousness in China, a pair of logistics and supply chain industry veterans have come up with a novel system to recycle courier parcel packaging more effectively and sustainably.
China handles the most number of parcel deliveries in the world, with 50bn parcels sent in 2018 alone. That’s 40% of the global business, exceeding the total volume handled by Japan, the US and the EU combined. In 2016, China’s courier parcels consumed 17bn meters of tape, 8.2bn plastic bags and 46m tons of cardboard boxes, equivalent to timber from 72m trees.
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