Abstract
The boom in online food delivery(OFD) platforms brings convenience to both consumers and restaurants but leads to pollution from nonbiodegradable plastic food containers. To reduce pollution, the Chinese government enacted a ban on using multiple single-use plastics, including nondegradable OFD food containers. There may be various interests involved in enforcing the ban, so careful analysis is required before implementing the ban. This study applied evolutionary game theory to examine the interaction mechanism of the problematic behaviors between OFD platforms and restaurants. By theoretical research and simulation, we analyzed the conditions under which the game can converge to the expected outcome. In addition, we discussed the measures that are most important to promote restaurants using degradable food packaging in their service.
Highlights
The online food delivery (OFD) platform is a third-party platform that integrates information from consumers, restaurants, and riders [1]
Well-known milk tea chain brands such as ’’Honey Snow City’’ and ’’CoCo’’ were banned from providing plastic straws in their OFD services. These phenomena signify that the Chinese government will re-enforce the ban on using single-use plastics countrywide as the epidemic is brought under control
MODEL DESCRIPTION We develop an evolutionary game model to analyze an OFD platform’s and a restaurant’s behavioral strategies in the context of the ban on using single-use plastics
Summary
The online food delivery (OFD) platform is a third-party platform that integrates information from consumers, restaurants, and riders [1]. The ban forbids restaurants from providing single-use food packaging (SFP) to consumers. Well-known milk tea chain brands such as ’’Honey Snow City’’ and ’’CoCo’’ were banned from providing plastic straws in their OFD services These phenomena signify that the Chinese government will re-enforce the ban on using single-use plastics countrywide as the epidemic is brought under control. The fundamental solution for stopping the use of SFP in OFD service is that the government, OFD platforms, and restaurants make efforts to implement the ban. We develop a theoretical model of the behavioral strategy interaction of restaurants and OFD platforms in the ban on using single-use plastics and discuss how to restrain restaurants’ and OFD platforms’ willingness to resist the ban. Our model considers only how OFD platforms and restaurants choose their behavioral strategies according to the government’s and consumers’ preferences
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