SHANGHAI • If you worry about all the waste generated by the annual rush of holiday shopping and gift giving, it is nothing compared with the mountains of discarded packaging that comes from a single event in China.
On Nov 11 each year, the world s biggest consumer market goes into overdrive as e-commerce giants like Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com lure shoppers with huge bargains during the Singles Day sale.
On its Tmall platform, transactions reached a peak when 583,000 orders were made in a single second.
All those purchases meant 675 million packages had to be delivered, a 26 per cent increase from last year.
El enorme impacto medioambiental del mayor evento de compras anual en China, el día de los solteros infobae.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from infobae.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.