Walls of styrofoam boxes pile up across Hong Kong after cross-border truckers told mainland China no longer taking them

Styrofoam boxes used to bring vegetables over the border have piled up on Hong Kong streets after mainland Chinese authorities refused to take them back due to the city’s worsening Covid-19 crisis, according to truck drivers.The containers are a staple of the fresh food trade and usually hauled back to the mainland wholesale markets where they are used again. But some drivers told the Post on Wednesday that surging infections had made the market operators wary about contracting the virus from…

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