A study of 100 takeout orders by environmental groups reportedly found that an average of 3.27 disposable plastic lunchboxes/cups are consumed per order, which means that more than 60 million plastic lunchboxes are currently used on China's Internet ordering platforms every day.

According to data released by Internet takeout platforms such as Meituan Takeout, HungryMall and Baidu Takeout, the daily order volume of the three takeout platforms nationwide is around 20 million orders, and due to the rapid delivery of food, rich variety, and convenient payment, many foreigners in China have commented that in addition to "high-speed rail, Alipay, *** enjoying bicycles, online shopping "

Chinese takeout should also be included in the "new four inventions", according to the report.

It is reported that not only the lunch box, takeaway food delivery using plastic bags, plastic tableware, plastic packaging, etc., all belong to the plastic waste, ordinary plastic lunch boxes and tableware, the main ingredient is polypropylene, plastic bags, the main ingredient is polyethylene, are non-biodegradable ordinary plastics, takeaway platforms every day the plastic bags used to cover 420,000 square meters, about 15 days can be covered by a West Lake.

Industry insiders say, Chinese food contains more soup, oil and grease, the use of plastic lunch boxes to hold some more appropriate, although there are also catering companies use cardboard boxes and other packaging, but most of the biodegradable lunch boxes are not suitable for Chinese food, easy to seepage of water seepage of oil, so that the rice sticking to the difficult to be accepted by the consumer, the takeaway packaging accounted for about 2% of the overall cost.

It is hoped that takeaways will soon stop using non-biodegradable plastics and adopt biodegradable lunch boxes instead!