It has been reported that since 2011, China's online takeout catering market has been maintaining a high rate of growth, and the 2017 China Online Takeout Catering Industry Research Report released by an organization shows that China's online catering takeout user scale reached 256 million people in 2016, with a market size of 166.24 billion yuan.

The scale of online catering takeout user scale in 2017 is expected to reach 301 million people and the market size is expected to reach 204.56 billion yuan.

According to conservative estimates based on public data, the total daily order volume of the three major takeout platforms of HungryMo, Meituan Takeout and Baidu Takeout is around 20 million orders. To each single takeout with a plastic bag, each plastic bag 0.06 square meters, the daily use of plastic bags can cover an area of 1.2 million square meters, paved with 168 soccer fields.

An environmental organization found that each single takeaway will consume an average of 3.27 disposable plastic lunch boxes/cups, which means that takeaway daily consumption of more than 60 million lunch boxes, takeaway plastic products used in most of the materials for polypropylene, polyethylene, it is difficult to degradation, in order to calculate the height of each lunch box 5 cm high, stacked up to a height equivalent to 339 Mount Everest.

It is reported that at present, takeaway garbage into the sanitation system to deal with domestic waste, part of the landfill, part of the incineration, only a small amount of recycling, takeaway food residues if not dealt with in a timely manner, easy to affect the environmental hygiene, and aggravate the pressure of the end of the waste disposal.

I hope you can pay attention to environmental protection when enjoying takeout!