Agreed, the government should make it much easier for its residents to recycle and not jump through hoops.
Agreed, the government should make it much easier for its residents to recycle and not jump through hoops.
Well, there are doing whatever apple-polishing thing that make them look good to their overloads up North.
We used to have an active district counsellor who were, for the most part, genuinely close to the grassroots and community, but alas...
A lot of money gets funnelled to the poor. I am not sure how efficient it is.
As for recycling we will soon get the government trash can bags at $XX each which should drive the population to reduce the waste they trough in landfill and increase the amount that goes into streamed recycling bins.
There's a whole bunch of separate bins where I live but most residents throw regular trash into the recycle bins (particularly if someone has jammed a sofa or some other huge item into the general waste bin). And then I lost all hope when I saw the pickup people chucking all the sorted waste into one truck... I bet it all goes straight to landfill anyway
Regrettably I'm therefore falling into line with Ellena on this... always makes me a bit sad about the futility of all those years washing out yoghurt pots in the UK when you see what goes on here. When I leave I'm throwing everything into the harbour en route to the airport
Because there is no money in this business and since China stop taking trash for recycling, there is no real monetary incentive to bother with recycling...
The biggest thing we could do for the environment is encourage the Guangzhou authorities to hurry up with the nuclear plants they are building up the coast so we can gradually deprecate the coal fired nightmare that is HK electricity