1) Cleaning up the air All new taxis will be required to use Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) by the end of next year.
All diesel-run taxis will be encouraged to use LPG by the end of 2005. The Government says changing the whole taxi fleet will drop pollution levels by 30 per cent.
A trial of LPG minibuses and light vans is to be introduced later this year.
The Government will set up 40 permanent LPG filling stations to serve the new fleet.
The sale of leaded petrol will be banned in April.
In the next two years, all new heavy trucks and buses will have to confirm to Euro III standards. This would reduce their emission of respirable particulates by 33 per cent compared to the buses on the road today or by 89 per cent compared to pre-1995 levels.
2) Reducing waste Hong Kong currently produces around 23,000 tonnes of waste a day - that's enough to fill nearly 200 double-decker buses. The Government plans to cut that amount in half within the next 10 years by: Setting up an industry-led Waste Reduction Committee to look at the feasibility of waste reduction schemes, for example, the use of non-disposable crockery and recycling schemes supported by industries that create food packaging.