One of our neighbours spent a large part of a recent Sunday afternoon hurling drawers from a wardrobe he wanted to dispose of into the trees opposite our home.
Not for him the tedious business of popping down to the public dump in Tseung Kwan O, or even the option of leaving the offending white Formica furniture beside the nearby bins. He wanted his possessions to join the old fridge, the tumble dryer, the armchair, and other rubbish down among the bushes and trees.
The sad thing is that this man is not an unusual, anti-social slob. He is merely doing the same as thousands of others like him, as tonight's episode of The Pearl Report (Pearl, 8pm) makes abundantly clear.
Throughout Hong Kong, residents are more than happy to hurl their rubbish out of the window, rather than getting rid of it properly, even if their actions mean the view will be permanently disfigured.
In Yuen Long, apparently, things have become so bad in one village that the fishpond there has been burning for months because the rubbish in it has caught alight, and the fire brigade cannot put the flames out. Meanwhile the villagers have to live with the toxic fumes belching out from the water.
So who is to blame for all this? The Government comes in for some flak for not providing sufficient conveniently located public tips.
But, somehow, I think, even if there was a landfill two minutes' drive from our village my neighbour would still have thought it too far to go.