Government departments received more than 10,000 complaints about illegal dumping of construction waste last year, but prosecuted only 80 cases. The Environmental Protection [...]
Caffe Paradiso coffee shop in Mui Wo has started selling reusable cups. It is not the first on Lantau to do so, but it is the first to sell these collapsible cups (below). As [...]
Chief Executive Carrie Lam has refused to condemn wetland dumping and has ruled out any changes to the law to preserve Lantau and other threatened areas. Lam admitted in [...]
Demonstrators dumped construction waste outside Carrie Lam’s residence today to protest landfilling and wetland destruction, with Legco member Eddie Chu warning of [...]
The Ombudsman has castigated the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) for being too slow and reactive in dealing with fly-tipping. It has called on the department to [...]
Five more South Lantau beaches to the government’s priority foreshore cleaning roster. From now on Cheung Sha, Tong Fuk, Shap Long, Ham Tin and Tai Long Wan are among [...]
Hannah Chung won’t leave home without her stainless steel lunch box. It’s the indispensable tool in her quest to live a life that creates no consumer waste. But [...]
In yet another failed attempt to protect Hong Kong’s environmental assets, a truck owner has been fined just HK$6000 over the dumping of waste in Pui O. The owner, who [...]
Hong Kong leader CY Leung is under fire from multiple directions for his beach cleanup exercise on South Lantau yesterday. A team of around 60 government cleaning contractors [...]
For the second time in less than a month, senior SAR officials have converged on Lantau to collect beach trash. This morning CY Leung himself led a team of 70 officials that [...]