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Environmental Protection Department (EPD) is a department of Hong Kong Government concerning the issues of environmental protection in Hong Kong.The EPD is responsible for developing policies covering environmental protection, nature conservation; enforcing environmental legislation; monitoring environmental quality; providing collection ...
Hong Kong’s environmental chief said that the bureau should be reorganized. This was because the Environment Branch of the bureau and the Environmental Protection Department were merged as one organization at that time. Since what the bureau should do has become more complex recently, it was better for the bureau to be subdivided.
Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Environment)/Director of Environmental Protection: Janice Tse; Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Food): Vivian Lau; Environmental Protection Department; Hong Kong Observatory; Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department; Food and Environmental Hygiene Department; Government ...
Leachate is treated using landfill gas to provide heat for reducing the heavy loading of ammonia and ensuring that it can be released into the environment [20] [21] according to strict criteria as specified by the Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong, and the process is employed at all three strategic landfill sites cited above. [22]
A landfill in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong plastic shopping bag environmental levy scheme is an environmental levy scheme designed to reduce the manufacture and distribution of plastic shopping bags (PSBs) in Hong Kong. PSBs are made of materials that are not easily degradable, and as such, their extensive disposal is putting pressure on the very ...
The Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Chinese: 環境及生態局局長) of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for environment protection policy in Hong Kong.The position was created most recently in 2007 as the Secretary for the Environment to replace portions of the previous portfolio of Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works.
The Environment Bureau (ENB; Chinese: 環境局) is a defunct policy bureau of the Government of Hong Kong in operation from 2007 to 2022. It was responsible for developing policies in environmental protection, energy, climate change, sustainable development, nature conservation; enforcing environmental legislation.
In 2014, domestic waste constitutes 65% of municipal solid waste, and 43% of total solid waste at landfills (Environmental Protection Department [EPD], 2015b). Hong Kong has the highest daily domestic waste generation rates per capita compared to other metropolitans in Asia: Metro Tokyo creates 0.77 kg per day per capita, Seoul generates 0.95 ...