China’s expanding waste levels: how food delivery is creating white pollution

Workers stand over piles of used white plastic food containers at a construction site in Hefei, in eastern China’s Anhui province on December 6, 2009. Most Chinese cities are facing a “garbage crisis” if authorities do not rapidly open new landfills and waste incineration facilities, amid fears over pollution and water supplies. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)