Meituan Dianping steps up recycling drive amid deluge of plastic waste in China

The food delivery giant’s move follows Beijing’s plan to cut the production and use of plastic in the country over the next five years. The amount of waste accumulated by China’s e-commerce and express delivery sectors could reach 41.3 million tonnes by 2025. — SCMP

Meituan Dianping, China’s leading e-commerce platform for services, is ratcheting up efforts to build a green supply chain for packaging, as the world’s second-largest economy combats a growing plastic waste problem.

The Beijing-based company said on Monday that its Blue Mountain Project, an environmental protection initiative launched in 2017, will establish more programmes to recycle packaging waste across the country.