China’s Singles’ Day shopping craze turns into environmental nightmare

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As “China recycles less than 20% of packaging waste,” the “1 billion parcels expected to crisscross [the] country in coming weeks may choke landfills.”

Lucas Niewenhuis

Lucas Niewenhuis is the Newsletter Editor at The China Project. Previously, he has researched China-Africa relations at the Social Science Research Council, interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, and studied Chinese language and culture in Shanghai and Beijing. Read more

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