Author(s): Yaser Issa Mahmoud Momani
In recent years, e-commerce has penetrated into all areas of the economy and society at a rapid rate, gradually changing the way of life and business operations of Chinese people. It greatly increases the speed of commercial transactions, saves transaction costs, frees economic activities from geographical and time constraints, and improves economic efficiency overall. Compared with traditional business, e-commerce is bound to have a significant impact on the environment. At the same time, the environmental problems brought by e-commerce are also coming, logistics packaging problems, greenhouse gas emissions in transportation, material consumption accounting and so on. Based on the above background, the purpose of this paper is to bring new environmental law problems to e-commerce based on big data analysis. With the rapid development of information technology and network technology, big data has been widely applied and popularized in many industries. Through big data analysis, this paper finds that the most important environmental problems caused by the changes in online retail and traditional business materials consumption are the changes in carbon dioxide emissions. It can be found that under the network retail conditions, according to the online retail data of Taobao, the changes of carbon dioxide emissions of four sampling products and four sampling substances are as follows: the carbon dioxide emissions of plastics have increased by about 76,600 tons, and other carbon dioxide emissions such as aluminum, glass and sheet materials have increased by 23,000 tons, 0.1986 million tons and 0.0597 ten thousand tons. Through this study, the environmental problems brought by e-commerce will have certain reference significance for the improvement of relevant laws in the future.