Landfills

Letters to the Editor, February 28, 2013

28 Feb 2013

We would like to point out that the article "Smog in Pearl Delta 'worse than Beijing'" misrepresented how air pollution in the Pearl River Delta should be understood. For those of us who study air...

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Hong Kong cannot continue with its wasteful ways

28 Jan 2013

With our three landfills reaching capacity in 2019, the waste management strategies that successive governments have raised, but failed to implement, can no longer be ignored. Each is...

Hong Kong will still need landfills

2 Jan 2013

I refer to two letters on December 13 on waste charging, from Tony Henderson ("Solid waste charge should be last resort") and Karina Chow ("New policy could face stiff resistance").

Let me...

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More urgency needed on growing waste problem

17 Dec 2012

Despite endless studies on a better strategy to reduce municipal waste over the past decade, our city is nowhere near a consensus on the way forward. Meanwhile, people seem unaware of their...

Waste disposal plans back on government's agenda

27 Oct 2012

Controversial waste disposal plans including landfill expansion look set to return to the city's agenda, even as residents call for the closure of the Tseung Kwan O rubbish facility.

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We can expand airport and also solve Hong Kong's landfill problems

There is little argument that one reason for Hong Kong's attractiveness as a major travel destination is the highly efficient international airport, with its comprehensive facilities and travel...

Feathers ruffled but Singapore's eco-dump wins fans

A landfill is often a filthy and malodorous place, but in squeaky clean Singapore even its sole working landfill smells of roses - well, a fresh sea breeze to be more exact.

Gritted teeth at charity check-up

RESIDENTS of Manila's notorious Smokey Mountain, who fought tooth and nail against eviction by the National Housing Authority and Philippine National Police last month, had their teeth and nails...

Fee delay may cause rubbish pile-ups

RUBBISH will be piling up in Hong Kong's streets by early next year if a controversial government scheme for charging landfill users is not implemented soon, a government official said.

$109m approved for landfill

LIBERAL legislators yesterday failed to block approval of $109 million to extend a landfill which they argued would not need the extra capacity if dumping was better controlled.