Why do American restaurants use food cartons while China uses plastic boxes?

American restaurants generally use food cartons to pack takeaway food, mainly because cartons are more environmentally friendly than plastic boxes. A sense of environmental protection and responsibility prevails in American culture, and the use of renewable and degradable materials is widely advocated. Food cartons can be easily recycled and reused, and have less impact on environmental pollution than plastic boxes.

On the contrary, Chinese restaurants generally use plastic boxes to pack takeaway food, mainly because plastic boxes are more convenient and durable than food cartons. In China, the food delivery market is developing rapidly, requiring the use of some packaging materials with excellent airtightness and thermal insulation, and plastic boxes can provide these characteristics. However, the environmental protection of plastic boxes is not as good as paper boxes, which has attracted people's attention, and many companies have begun to use environmentally friendly materials to produce packaging boxes.