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A lot of the government’s claims about recycling would seem to be a sham. Those barges full of waste paper that the mainland doesn’t want any more are proof of how rubbery the numbers have been.

The same presumably goes for plastics, glass, food and whatever else we throw away. Until the authorities are serious about getting us to reduce waste, Hong Kong will stand shamefully among those places which care little for themselves or the world around them. There’s an easy statistic to prove this. The Environmental Protection Department in its 2015 recycling figures, the latest available, says 

But there aren’t any paper recycling or manufacturing plants in Hong Kong. Those barges that aren’t going anywhere now that Beijing has removed its welcome mat tell the story; we don’t recycle paper, we just ship it to someone else and what they do with it is up to them.

A lot of the government’s claims about recycling would seem to be a sham. Those barges full of waste paper that the mainland doesn’t want any more are proof of how rubbery the numbers have been.

The same presumably goes for plastics, glass, food and whatever else we throw away. Until the authorities are serious about getting us to reduce waste, Hong Kong will stand shamefully among those places which care little for themselves or the world around them.There’s an easy statistic to prove this. The Environmental Protection Department in its 2015 recycling figures, the latest available, says 35 per cent of theannual 5.7 million tonnes of waste from household, commercial and industrial sources is recycled and of that, 44 per cent is paper.

But there aren’t any paper recycling or manufacturing plants in Hong Kong. Those barges that aren’t going anywhere now that Beijing has removed its welcome mat tell the story; we don’t recycle paper, we just ship it to someone else and what they do with it is up to them.