Since 2015, the total business volume of China’s express industry has increased year by year. In January 2021, the whole express business volume in China totaled 12.47 billion pieces, with a year-on-year increase of 124.7%. The China’s express market rebounded strongly after the COVID 19.

With the rapid growth of express scale, the demand for logistics packaging materials has increased significantly, and the resource consumption and environmental impact have become increasingly prominent. The tape consumed by China’s express industry can wrap around the earth thousands of times a year. However, tape recycling is more difficult than other materials. How to degrade the tape is an urgent problem to be solved.

The common base film of express tape in the market is mostly BOPP. Is there a base film that is close to BOPP and can be degraded? The answer is YES. Recently, the first mass production product in China, biodegradable BOPLA film developed by the Xiamen Changsu is expected to be applied on express tape, and its performance is equivalent to that of BOPP in all aspects.

As the base film of adhesive tape, BOPLA has the following advantages:

1. Bio-based materials.
2. Biodegradable.
3. Good tensile strength.
4. Excellent printing performance.
5. High transparency, high gloss and low haze.
6. The carbon footprint is more than 68% less than that of traditional fossil-based plastics.

Based on these advantages of BOPLA, the environmental protection express packaging tape with BOPLA as the base film is attracting the attention of e-commerce logistics leaders such as JD Express, CaiNiao, SF Express and EMS. Driven by the Goal of Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality, the “Plastic Prohibition Order” in various fields will be gradually implemented, the degradable film materials represented by BOPLA will be more widely used, and the era of green logistics will accelerate.