The Secretary for the Environment and Ecology, Mr Tse Chin-wan, today (23rd) accompanied 8 Legislative Council members including Li Weihong, Kan Huimin, Chen Peiliang, Hong Wen, Huang Yuanshan, Lam Chun Sing, Ng Kit Chuang and Lin Xiaolu to visit the waste treatment and resource recovery facilities of the Environmental Protection Department. It also introduces the policies and work of the bureau and departments in promoting regional waste reduction and recycling and construction of more waste-to-energy and waste-to-materials.
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Legislative Council members visit waste treatment and resource recovery facilities in Tuen Mun
Eight Legislative Council members visited one of the "Green in Tuen Mun", one of the "Green in Tuen Mun" recycling stations of the EPD's community recycling network, and experienced first-hand the smart recycling system built with IoT technology, including the collection of plastic beverage containers The reverse vending machine (into the bottle machine), "Green Rewards" electronic points program, smart scales and self-service gift machines, etc.
A member of the House of Representatives also visited Y. Garden Waste Recycling Centre in Tsang Tsui, Tuen Mun.
PARK "Forest District", and T‧PARK "Source District", a large facility that converts waste into energy.
The EPD's community recycling network "Green in the District" currently covers about 80% of single buildings, and has set up more than 160 public recycling points in 18 districts in Hong Kong, including 11 "Recycling and Environmental Protection Stations" and 32 "Recycling Convenience Points" ”, and more than 120 “recycling mobile points” that operate regularly and fixedly in the form of street stations, and receive eight common types of recyclables in a unified manner.
In line with the implementation of refuse charging, the EPD plans to continue to expand the community recycling network and outreach services to support and facilitate citizens living in different types of premises to practice source separation and clean recycling.
Tse Chin-wan, Secretary for the Environment and Ecology.
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Xie Zhanhuan: Will continue to develop waste-to-energy facilities
Tse Chin-wan said that the Environment and Ecology Bureau will continue to develop waste-to-energy facilities to gradually replace the disposal of municipal solid waste in landfills, so as to achieve the goal of "zero-zero" as proposed in the "Hong Kong Blueprint for Resource Recycling 2035" and "Hong Kong Climate Action Blueprint 2050". landfill” and carbon neutrality goals.
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