According to China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development ^[1], 46 key cities across the country will have basically completed waste classification and treatment systems by the end of 2020. China's new waste management system will place considerable emphasis on recycling, and it is hoped will stimulate industry to minimize or phase out the use of plastics in packaging. The regulation was first implemented in Shanghai, where the topic has been trending across social media and where the new waste management system is first being implemented as a pilot program before being refined and scaled up on a national level.