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A member of China's top advisory body warned Wednesday against
excessive commodities packaging, which he cited as another source
of environmental pollution and have to "be banted" and greatly
reduced.
Decent, appropriate packaging facilitate sales of goods, whereas
excessive and even fraudulent packaging could lead to a waste of
resources and cause serious environmental pollution hazards, said
Li Yafang, a member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
She enumerated statistics from environmental sanitation departments
that more than 70 percent of the garbage from packaging industry
could have been reduced. At present, garbage originated from
packaging made up more than 20 percent of the household rubbish in
the country.
Meanwhile, Li set forth a proposal for formulating law and
regulations on the packaging of commodities in a bid to conserve
and save natural resources, lessen environmental pollution and ban
fraudulent packaging methods.
(Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2003)
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