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Article: Shantou Bans Styrofoam-Made Food Boxes
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 5, 1996
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Shantou City in southern China's Guangdong Province has banned the
production, sale and use of styrofoam-made fast food boxes, a source
of "white pollution" in the city.
At the same time, the city government advocated the use of paper
boxes.
The ban went into effect June 1 and the city became the the
country's first to impose such a ban.
The food boxes, made of foamed plastic material, occupied the
Chinese snack food market for ...