On October 15, Meituan Qingshan Plan, China Packaging Federation, China Environmental Protection Foundation and others jointly launched the industry's first green packaging digital platform for catering takeout, and released the "Green Packaging Solution for Catering Takeout (Second Phase)" to promote Green transformation of the industry. Wang Li, Vice President of the China Packaging Federation, Yang Jiansheng, Director of the Shanghai Representative Office of the China Environmental Protection Foundation, Liu Tianhang, Assistant Director of the China Export Commodity Packaging Research Institute, Zhou Yan, Senior Manager of Meituan Qingshan Plan, and representatives of catering brands and packaging companies participated in the event Release ceremony.

　　"Green Packaging Solution for Catering Takeout (Phase 1)" was released on May 18, 2023. In recent years, the catering takeout packaging industry has continued to explore development paths in dimensions such as "green" and "performance". Among them, how to build effective interaction channels between catering companies and green packaging companies, and how to make green packaging more suitable for complex and diverse Chinese food, have become key issues. Meituan launched the industry's first environmental protection action "Qingshan Plan" in 2017, and last year established the "Catering Takeaway Green Packaging Application Working Group" in conjunction with China Packaging Federation, China Federation of Commerce, China Hotels Association and other industry organizations and catering businesses. , to jointly promote the application of green packaging in the catering takeout industry and supply chain construction, and promote the sustainable development of the industry.

　　It is understood that the digital platform released this time will focus on displaying recommended green packaging products for catering takeout and support the release of green packaging recruitment information. It aims to build an information exchange platform between catering merchants and green packaging companies and promote green supply in the takeout packaging industry. Chain building. So far, the platform has gathered 92 environmentally friendly products from 78 high-quality catering takeout packaging companies and will continue to expand, covering pulp molded lunch boxes, transparent polypropylene (PP) plastic lunch boxes, and polylactic acid (PLA) biodegradable plastic lunch boxes , paper bags, paper straws, etc., for catering companies in need to choose, and at the same time help green packaging supply companies further open up the market.

　　In order to better realize "providing recyclable, degradable or reusable takeout packaging solutions for all merchants", Qingshan plans to classify green packaging according to the characteristics of different types of dishes, and plans to complete the green packaging in three stages by 2025. Development of packaging solutions. This time, the working group released the "Green Packaging Solution for Catering Takeout (Second Phase)", which covers six major categories of dishes, including fried rice, noodle soup, stir-fry, pasta, and pizza. It recommends green packaging solutions based on the characteristics of each category of food. We have found green packaging with matching performance for high-temperature oil meals, helping merchants understand policy standards, green packaging principles and action directions, so as to comprehensively measure the four dimensions of "performance, appearance, price, and environmental protection" and choose appropriate green packaging solutions. Make purchases.

　　Recently, the "Opinions on Accelerating the Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development" was released, emphasizing the strengthening of technological innovation, policy and system innovation, and business model innovation that support green transformation, promoting the green and low-carbon technological revolution, and mentioning guiding the green and low-carbon development of digital technology enterprises , helping upstream and downstream enterprises improve their carbon reduction capabilities.

　　As the industry's first environmental protection action "Qingshan Plan", Meituan Qingshan Plan is continuing to build a green and low-carbon consumption ecology through various measures such as plastic pollution control, promoting sustainable consumption, and responding to climate change. In addition to promoting the innovation and application of green packaging, the Qingshan Plan has linked the upstream and downstream industries to implement a normalized lunch box recycling system in 22 cities in 20 provinces across the country, driving more than 460 million users to use Meituan's "no tableware required" product functions.

　　According to the person in charge of Meituan Qingshan Plan, the third phase of the "Green Packaging Solution for Catering Takeout" will be launched soon. Taking the release of the digital platform for green packaging for catering takeout as a starting point, we will continue to promote the construction of a green packaging supply chain and provide full support for the platform. Merchants provide recyclable, degradable or reusable takeout packaging solutions to help the industry's green transformation.