The municipal solid waste (MSW) disposed of at landfills dropped for two consecutive years to 3.97 million tonnes in 2023, and the average daily quantity was 10,884 tonnes, a 2.2% decrease compared to ...

Hong Kong needs to step up its solid waste management. The special administrative region's long list of environmental legislation notwithstanding - including the Air Pollution Control Ordinance, Waste ...

Hong Kong will experiment with a three-month solid waste charging scheme next month, the Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong said Wednesday. It said the scheme on Municipal Solid Waste ...

Hong Kong generates several different types of waste, and each has its own handling requirements. Municipal solid waste (MSW), comprising domestic solid waste from households, commercial and ...

Despite the decline in solid waste levels, there is a need for a solution to deal with the reality of the city's overwhelmed landfills Hong Kong's controversial waste-charging scheme has been ...

Hong Kong set a target to reduce each citizen's daily municipal solid waste disposal by 20 percent, or 1 kilogram (slightly more than 2 pounds) by 2017 and by 40 percent, or 0.8 kilogram (slightly ...

Hong Kong aims to increase the recycling rate by 2 percentage points within the next two years without the help of the controversial waste-charging scheme, which has not been abandoned but merely put ...

Voiceover: Located on an artificial island near Shek Kwu Chau, the Integrated Waste Management Facilities Phase I, I·PARK1, is the first waste-to-energy plant designed to tackle municipal solid waste ...

Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's top container shipping firm, said on Wednesday it would stop accepting solid waste shipments bound for China and Hong Kong from September. By Mai Nguyen ...