JD.com, Meituan, Taobao, etc. prohibit merchants from selling disposable non-degradable plastic products to Hainan
JD.com, Suning.com, Meituan, Taobao and other e-commerce platforms prohibit merchants on the platforms from selling disposable non-degradable plastic products to Hainan.
"Sorry, the purchase failed. Dear, your order contains products that are not currently supported for sale in the current region." On November 30, Ms. Zhou, a citizen of Haikou, planned to buy plastic garbage bags at an online store on an e-commerce platform, but failed. Success, the pop-up window before payment shows such a paragraph.
The reason why the purchase of plastic garbage bags was unsuccessful was that Hainan Province actively promoted the ban on plastics on e-commerce platforms, and set up "gates" on some e-commerce platforms to block the flow of disposable non-degradable plastic products in the banned plastic list into Hainan.
The e-commerce platform is the main source of online sales of plastic products. Setting up a "gate" on this channel to supervise the trading of illegal plastic products will have a multiplier effect. In the work of banning plastic, the Provincial Department of Commerce actively started from the aspects of source control, illegal punishment, social supervision, incentive promotion, normal control, and atmosphere creation to promote the ban on plastic on e-commerce platforms. The "Several Measures on Promoting Plastic Ban on E-commerce Platforms in Hainan Province" issued last year proposed 6 measures in total, covering all aspects of plastic ban on e-commerce platforms. Through the combination of positive incentives and negative punishments, a combination of rewards and punishments, The working mechanism of collaborative governance.
As large domestic e-commerce platforms, platforms such as JD.com, Suning.com, Meituan, and Taobao have actively participated in Hainan’s plastic ban under the guidance and promotion of the Hainan Provincial Department of Commerce. JD.com uses the recyclable express box "Qingliu Box", which has accumulated a total of 334,000 cycles throughout the year. At the same time, it promotes the use of fully biodegradable express packaging. Suning Online Mall prohibits the sale of disposable non-degradable plastic products. Meituan implemented the "Green Mountain Plan" to help the green transformation of Hainan's food delivery industry. It has distributed more than 1 million sets of takeaway environmentally friendly packaging products to merchants, and cooperated with the Hainan Plastics Industry Association to establish a trading platform for Hainan's environmentally friendly packaging products. Taobao has established a partition list of prohibited plastic products in Hainan to block the flow of illegal plastic products into Hainan from the source. In the first three quarters of this year, a total of 140,000 merchants selling disposable non-degradable plastic products were blocked.
At present, e-commerce platform companies such as JD.com, Suning.com, Meituan, and Taobao have formulated internal working systems, issued Hainan plastic ban rules and platform internal governance announcements in the platform internal rules center; Information; Merchants on the platform are prohibited from selling disposable non-degradable plastic products to Hainan. The Provincial Department of Commerce has formed a working mechanism to conduct regular online inspections on the sales of plastic products by merchants on the platform, and to provide regular feedback and regular supervision on the implementation of Hainan's plastic ban by major e-commerce platform companies.
In addition, Hainan Province has incorporated the plastic ban work on e-commerce platforms into the province's plastic ban publicity work system. The Provincial Department of Commerce launched the 2022 Hainan Province e-commerce platform plastic ban promotion campaign with the theme of "Green Free Trade Port, I will first ban plastic" in October this year. Publicize typical cases and outstanding achievements, evaluate associations, e-commerce companies, express delivery companies and individuals who have contributed to the plastic ban on e-commerce platforms, and convey the environmental protection concept of plastic ban to the public more, calling for the formation of social joint efforts to create Good plastic-free atmosphere.
