Greener packaging for delivery encouraged

Greener delivery package wrapping is being encouraged as the express delivery industry has boomed and produced more waste, the State Post Bureau said on Friday.

Guan Aiguang, deputy director of the market inspection department of the bureau, said as the country's top leadership pays more attention to environmental protection, it is an opportunity and a challenge for the bureau to promote environmentally friendly ways to handle delivery waste.

From January to September, 56.1 billion packages were delivered in China, a year-on-year increase of 28 percent. In September, 8.1 billion packages were delivered, an increase of 44.6 percent.