Rewards and penalties for recycling packaging

THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF GUANGZHOU, capital of South China's Guangdong province, has issued a plan for the implementation of the local garbage sorting regulation, which sets the target for the recycling rate of daily garbage to be at least 40 percent by 2020. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Among the garbage that needs recycling, packaging materials account for a large proportion, as the large number of delivery orders produce huge quantities of packaging waste.

With the rapid development of e-commerce, the scale of online shopping in China has grown rapidly. According to data released by the State Post Bureau, the total volume of express deliveries nationwide last year totaled 40.06 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 28 percent. The express delivery industry consumed 19.2 billion packaging boxes, 5.8 billion braided bags, 15 billion plastic bags, as well as 30 billion meters of tape last year.