Trash from packaging of online products poses threat

"People mountain, people sea" is how Chinese describe a place filled with people. But as the nation of more than 1.3 billion people increasingly shops online, casting off a huge amount of plastic bags and paper boxes, "garbage mountain, garbage sea" comes to mind.

With the country's e-commerce increasing rapidly, its online retail and related delivery services are producing a virtual mountain of waste that adds to the country's environmental woes.

China doesn't have a national system to regulate the packaging of goods purchased online - from freshly cooked soup and congee to frozen seafood.