Recycling Bin

Street cleaners send waste for recycling to landfills

17 Mar 2013

Government-paid street sweepers have been caught emptying recycling bins and dumping their contents with general waste destined for landfills.

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Green Living

14 May 2008

Recycling waste is becoming popular at high-end residences

Recycling is gradually becoming a routine with families taking up residence in high-end apartment blocks - a habit that is...

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Talk back

31 Mar 2006

Q What can be done to improve animal welfare?

12:54PM

Environmentalists seek ban on advertising leaflet distribution

26 Jul 2005

Environmentalists are calling for a ban on the distribution of advertising leaflets after a study confirmed the practice is wasteful and inefficient.

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Class Notes

18 Sep 2004

arts academy appoints director

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Phasing out ordinary bins is impractical

30 Jul 2002

I refer to John Phelan's letter headlined 'Recycling measures found wanting' (South China Morning Post, July 19).

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Opinion

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Recycling measures found wanting

I totally agree with Patsy Leung's letter about waste separation and recycling (South China Morning Post, July 10). The government should be doing a lot more to help with recycling.

7:45AM

Government supports standardised design

I refer to the letter from John Neill headlined 'Different recycling bins confuse visitors' (Sunday Morning Post, June 16).

4:47AM

Different recycling bins confuse visitors

As a frequent visitor to Hong Kong I am delighted to note the increased emphasis being placed on recycling, even if it is rather belated.

3:59AM

Does recyclable waste end up in landfills?

There has been a large increase in the number of recycling bins in Hong Kong and adverts are screened on TV encouraging people to use them.

We are asked to separate paper, tin and...

7:29AM

Government must adopt integrated recycling strategy

Given that Hong Kong disposes of 19,000 tonnes of solid waste every day at landfills, it is foreseen that Hong Kong's three strategic landfills will be full by 2015, instead of lasting until 2020...

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