{"id":31900,"date":"2016-11-13T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T23:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/chinas-shopping-craze-turns-into-environmental-nightmare"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:03:27","slug":"chinas-shopping-craze-turns-into-environmental-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/chinas-shopping-craze-turns-into-environmental-nightmare","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s shopping craze turns into environmental nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-shopping-craze-turns-into-environmental-nightmare2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where is Waste Management (WM) when you need them. Looks like a golden opportunity for those in the trash and recycle industry.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 China\u2019s Singles Day, the world\u2019s biggest shopping extravaganza that fell on Nov 11, saw bargain hunters spend 10 billion yuan (S$2.07 billion) in just seven minutes on the country\u2019s largest online-shopping site, Alibaba\u2019s Tmall, last Friday after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>But the spending orgy could choke landfills and take a huge toll on the environment, employees of waste-disposal and recycling firms say.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s version of the United States\u2019 Black Friday will result in one billion parcels travelling from retailers to customers\u2019 doorsteps over the course of the next few weeks, according to the China Express Association (CEA).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/chinaindia\/china\/chinas-shopping-craze-turns-environmental-nightmare\">http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/chinaindia\/china\/chinas-shopping-...-nightmare<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is Waste Management (WM) when you need them. Looks like a golden opportunity for those in the trash and recycle industry. BEIJING \u2014 China\u2019s Singles Day, the world\u2019s biggest shopping extravaganza that fell on Nov 11, saw bargain hunters spend 10 billion yuan (S$2.07 billion) in just seven minutes on the country\u2019s largest online-shopping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65775,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900\/revisions\/65775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}