Packaging in China

Packaging is fascinating here. Things appear to be "overpackaged" - items for example, food items, might have a wrapping around them, then they will be in another package, before the outer package.

As a result there is a lot of "rubbish" to throw away, although there is much that is recycled in some way. I have just eaten a moon cake - something that I was given some weeks ago, but is quite fresh. It was in a little "patty pan" type, complete with small package of "do not eat this - oxygen absorber powder), it had an outer sealed see through package, and it came in a small box, And this small box was in a bigger box - there were 8 of these packaged cakes in the box.
It is probably unfair to use this example, as the box of moon cakes was a gift to me.

However, it is something that we have noticed as a general principle. A packet of sweets for example will have a wrapper around it, and then another and in one or two packages.

Our waste bins can overflow with theexcess packaging, so you can imagine that with a population of 1.3 billion, there must be quite a bit of extra rubbish to dispose of somewhere.

A packet of Mentos in China has an extra layer of packaging. Wrigley's gum has extra too.