"Mil Mill", the only recycling factory for paper-packed beverage boxes in Hong Kong, located in Yuen Long Industrial Estate, faced the fate of being forced to relocate because it was not renewed by the Science and Technology Park Company in charge of management.
The Science and Technology Park issued a statement last night (21st), saying that the lease agreement signed by the two parties in 2018 clearly stated that the lease period of the relevant land was 3 years, and there was no renewal clause.
"Miaofang Mil Mill" responded to the incident again today (20th), listing the ins and outs of the "entered" investment in that year in a time series. The two founders were introduced by the Innovation and Technology Bureau in 2018. Opportunity to lease for at least 6 years, the factory leased it in 2019, and when the lease was renewed in 2021, the Science and Technology Park had asked the factory to spend 500,000 to carry out an electromechanical inspection project valid for five years.
Mil Mill pointed out that he has invested 10 million yuan so far, but he will move out after only 3 years of lease. The two gray-haired founders said that they did not want their hard work to go to waste. fill".
▼The paper bag drink box recycling merchant Mil Mill was forced to move▼
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"Mil Mill" posted a post on the Facebook page, saying that it was not easy for the authorities to "set up factories in the park" in Yuen Long Industrial Estate. They were dissatisfied with the Science and Technology Park and dismissed the tenants with a sentence of "expiration of the lease"; Place, pre-setup, machine testing, production of pulp, and finally to regenerate waste paper, it is true that one step at a time, "Time flies, our two founders have already grayed out, and now we just hope that the hard work will not go to waste and allow all parties to recycle Efforts don’t go to landfill.”
Mil Mill posted a post on FB today (22nd) to tell the history of blood and tears, and does not want millions of investment and hard work to be landfilled.
(Mil Mill fb photo)
Introduced by the Innovation and Technology Bureau into the Industrial Village in 2018 In June 2018, he was informed that he had the opportunity to lease for 6 years
Mil Mill pointed out that on April 7, 2018, he was introduced by the Innovation and Technology Bureau to meet the representatives of the Science and Technology Park. In mid-May, he inspected three factories that had been vacant for many years. In mid-June, he was informed that he had the opportunity to lease for at least 6 years. Monthly bid to lease No. 80 Fuxi Street. Two months later, the Science and Technology Park counter-proposed to lease No. 82 Fuxi Street.
Mil Mill was officially leased on January 1, 2019, and successively invested more than 10 million funds for pre-installation and operation, and began to pay monthly rent. In September, the first batch of pulp was produced. At the opening ceremony in October, when the The Secretary for the Environment, Mr Wong Kam-sing, and the CEO of the Science and Technology Park Corporation, Mr Wong Keqiang, attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Afterwards, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the recycling business and plans were greatly affected, and they still tried their best to pay the rent on time.
Last year, he was required to spend 500,000 yuan for a five-year mechanical and electrical inspection project
As of March 25, 2021, Mil Mill requested to renew the lease and obtained a one-year lease extension from the Science and Technology Park, but asked the factory to spend 500,000 yuan to carry out an electromechanical inspection project valid for five years.
By August 31 this year, Mil Mill requested to renew the lease again, but on September 6, the Science and Technology Park replied that the lease would not be renewed, and requested to withdraw the existing factory site by the end of the year, so on September 7, he sent an email to the Science and Technology Park, Innovation and Technology Park. The Bureau and the Environment Bureau made two requests, namely extending the grace period and entering the Eco-Park, but no positive response has been received. It is expected that recycling will be suspended by the end of December and the production of pulp will be stopped.
Mil Mill founder Lu Zhicong (left).
(File photo/Photo by Zheng Zifeng)
"Mil Mill is not just a promise of tens of millions, but a promise to make Hong Kong better"
The post also pointed out, "Many people say that Hong Kong is really beautiful, but of course there are still many fly in the ointment, environmental protection and recycling must be one of them. In my eyes, Mil Mill has never been a promise of 10 million yuan. It's a promise to make Hong Kong better," he said with emotion "10 million investment and hard work may all be landfilled."
The EPD’s three short-term lease sites were exposed and were approved as distant, expensive, and fine recycling plants Chuanzhou and other three short-term leases, moving factories and recycling plants, Mil Mill: not very suitable
