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Hong Kong may send part of its waste mountain to the Greater Bay Area under a proposal now being discussed, a senior official has said after the government delayed a waste charging scheme for a third time. Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan said that in order to achieve its goal of shutting down all landfill sites by 2035, Hong Kong had been speeding up development of waste incinerators. However, the official told Metro Radio on Wednesday the city might not be capable of dealing with all its waste after the landfills are shut, and the government was considering transporting som...
Hong Kong Free Press
The full implementation of Hong Kong’s waste-charging scheme, which was already delayed to August earlier this year, will not go ahead as scheduled, local media reported on Sunday citing sources. Sources said authorities will not impose the municipal solid waste tax on August 1, and will not set a date for the scheme’s citywide roll-out following a two-month trial run. The plan was first raised two decades ago. The government will continue to distribute designated garbage bags to public housing estates for six months to allow residents to get used to using the designated bags. Private housing ...
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Hong Kong’s legislature has passed a bill that will raise the maximum penalty for feeding wild animals to a HK$100,000 fine and imprisonment for one year and expanded the ban to cover feral pigeons. The new law will take effect on August 1. The new penalty would better reflect the adverse impact and serious consequences of illegal feeding on wildlife, ecology and the public, Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan told lawmakers on Wednesday, when the Wild Animals Protection (Amendment) Bill 2023 was tabled for approval. Under the newly passed bill, the city’s ban on feeding wild an...
Hong Kong Free Press
The Hong Kong government has said it will speed up food waste recycling and set up hundreds more smart bins to collect food waste before August, when the city officially rolls out its delayed waste charging scheme. The Environmental Protection Department said on Tuesday that 700 smart bins for food waste collection would be installed at 213 public housing estates across the city by August. These recycling facilities will serve around one third of Hong Kong’s population, the department added. Currently, some 530 food waste bins have been installed at 150 public housing estates. Hong Kong in Jan...
Hong Kong Free Press
A trial run for Hong Kong’s pay-as-you-throw waste tax will inform the government of how the public understands the new policy, the city’s leader John Lee has said. Lee’s comments came after the Environment and Ecology Bureau announced that a demonstration scheme, involving 14 premises, will be in place from next Monday to preview the implementation of the new tax. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Lee said the government wanted to “test how [people] understand the law and what they anticipate as the challenges as they go through the actual exercise.” “We want to see how people’s beha...
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