Mapping the environmental impacts and policy effectiveness of takeaway food industry in China

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 808; p. 152023
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yuting, Wen, Zongguo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 20.02.2022
• Subjects: China; diet; Environment; environmental impact; Environmental impacts; Food Industry; greenhouses; issues and policy; Life cycle assessment; markets; Plastic packaging; Plastics; Policy; pollution control; risk; Takeaway food industry; takeout foods; wastes; Water Pollution; China; Life cycle assessment; Environmental impacts; Plastic packaging; China; Takeaway food industry

The takeaway food industry, involving more than 0.4 billion consumers in China, has brought mass of packaging waste and salient environmental burden. Here we mapped the distribution of takeaway food industry across China including the industry scale, diet structure and order time based on the analys...