HK govt received 10,000 fly-tipping complaints, took 80 to court
Government departments received more than 10,000 complaints about illegal dumping of construction waste last year, but prosecuted only 80 cases. The Environmental Protection [...]
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Reusable cups at Caffe Paradiso
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 [...]
Lam won’t condemn wetland dumping or amend law to stop it
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 [...]
Protestors dump Lantau waste at Govt House, warn of further action
Demonstrators dumped construction waste outside Carrie Lam’s residence today to protest landfilling and wetland destruction, with Legco member Eddie Chu warning of [...]
Ombudsman castigates EPD over passive response to fly-tipping
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 Lantau beaches added to priority cleanup list
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’s journey to no-wasteland
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 [...]
Truck owner fined $6000 over Pui O waste dumping
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 [...]
CY Leung under fire over Lantau cleanup
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 [...]
CY Leung burnishes green credentials with Lantau beach clean-up
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 [...]