Re:Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic
by paxys on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @01:32AM
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Government regulation is a quick substitute for economic incentive. Mandate that delivery services have to charge $$ per box or utensil, and you'll see the counts drop pretty quick. Same happens in grocery stores in several states in the US.
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Re:Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic
by rahimnathwani on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @01:57AM
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Yup. But enforcement isn't easy.
Consider this: in the US and UK, sales tax (or VAT) is mostly enforced via the threat of a random audit. In China, official receipts can only be issued on government-issued stationery, printed using computers that are connected to the tax bureau. The threat of random audits is too weak, and open to corruption and uneven enforcement.