Glass Bottles

Briefs, March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

A 74-year-old man in an infirmary ward in Pok Oi Hospital in Yuen Long, where some patients are infected with human metapneumovirus, has a fever and respiratory problems.

Letters to the Editor, March 2, 2013

2 Mar 2013

I disagree with the letters by Cherry Yau ("Containers are not suitable living spaces", February 26) and Lau On-yin ("Another from of substandard housing", February 26).

Government unveils plan for HK$1 recycling levy on glass bottles

8 Feb 2013

People would need to pay a recycling levy on water and fruit juices sold in glass bottles, not just bottled beers and wine, under a government proposal. Under the plan - unveiled by the...

Hong Kong considers mandatory glass recycling legislation

6 Jan 2013

The government is considering legislation to make glass recycling mandatory, the environment minister said yesterday.

Lamma volunteers make floundering recycling scheme a success

29 Dec 2012

Every week, restaurants and bars on Lamma Island dispose of hundreds of glass bottles, which make their way to a recycling booth - but it is volunteers, rather than paid workers, who are...

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Government must start glass recycling

I read an article regarding glass recycling in Hong Kong and it really blew my mind. It said only 3 per cent of glass bottles were recycled and that the government doesn't pay attention to this...

Where the middle class reach for a glass

Ten years ago, Martin Lee, an engineer in Guangzhou, would never have imagined spending 680 yuan (HK$828) on a bottle of cabernet sauvignon. Today, he drinks at a members-only wine club in the...

Students throw away lots of plastic bottles

Students throw away an estimated 20 million plastic water bottles every year. That is equivalent to the area of 16 football fields.

COOL stuff

Wine is so sensitive that it doesn't like being bottled. It can close down temporarily, immediately after the stress of being moved from its barrel or tank - the so-called 'bottle shock'.

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Bottles

Egizia wine bottle, HK$345, from I.D., Prince's Building, tel: 2523 3006.

Hand-blown glass bottle, HK$200, from Inside, 12/F, Horizon Plaza, 2 Lee Wing Street, Ap Lei Chau, tel:...

10,000 bottles of wine dumped

Police are trying to track down the owners of more than 10,000 bottles of low-cost red wine found abandoned in Hong Kong streets.