Notice on < Government Procurement Demand Standard of Express Delivery Package Products(Trail)> and < Government Procurement Demand Standard of Goods Package Products(Trail)>(Treasury [2020]No.123)
The purpose is to tackle the plastic pollution promote sustainable consumption and production, by factualizing the use of green packaging.
The Standards focus on the items such as envelope, tape, face sheet, carton/bag, filler, shipping bag and container in delivery process as well as plastic, paper and wooden of package products. The hazardous substances, heavy metals and VOCs contents etc. are limited by the standards requirement. The standards are officially published and applied in trial during the government procurement implementation, push the government to purchase less harmful packaging products, hence eliminate the pollution of packaging products, and transition to sustainable consumption and production.
