Tricycle Is Slightly Overloaded At Night In China

A slightly overloaded tricycle, seen at night in central Beijing by our good friend Lao Wei, thank you for the pictures! The dapper tricycle is loaded to the absolute max, about 4 meters up and 3 wide. Hope it doesn’t need to pass too many tunnels. Note the Beijing-Hyundai Elantra taxi in the background on the left.

The tricycle is carrying carton and styrofoam boxes. The stuff was collected for recycling and usually goes to a larger recycling collection center, where it will be transferred to larger trucks, which in turn will haul the carton and boxes to the actual recycle plant.

Transporting carton and styrofoam boxes in this way is officially forbidden in China, but in reality nobody really cares, especially not this late at night. And recycling is for the common good, right?