Wen'an

For years, Mao Da, an environmental researcher, has studied the plastic industry in Wen’an County, near Beijing. Workers there used to sort through food and medical waste by hand, he said. Nonrecyclable material was buried in pits near farmland. “It was an environmental and public health catastrophe,” Mr. Mao said.

2019 May 28, Raymond Zhong, Carolyn Zhang, “Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2019, Technology