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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 ...
Mr. Tse Chin Wan is the Secretary of the Environment and Ecology Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, appointed on July 1, 2022. [24] He joined the Environmental Protection Agency (now the Environmental Protection Department) in Hong Kong in 1985 and has since held various professional and senior management positions. [25]
Hong Kong (Area Control Centre) (ICAO: VHHK) is one of two key area control centres in the Pearl River Delta and is under the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department. HK ACC is based out of the control tower at Hong Kong International Airport. From this ACC, air traffic controllers provide en route and terminal control services to aircraft in the ...
[3] [4] Mainland China had labour and land and looser pollution control than Hong Kong. [5] Therefore, Hong Kong industrialists took advantage of Mainland China's pull factors by relocating their factories there. [6] Most factories relocated to the Pearl River Delta. [7] The first factories were relocated to Mainland China in the late 1970s.
The South Coast AQMD includes all of Orange County; and the non-desert regions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County, and Riverside County including the Coachella Valley. The South Coast Air Basin area encompassed by the South Coast AQMD amounts to about 10,750 square miles (27,850 square kilometres) and is the second most populated area ...
The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively). [1 ...
According to a 2016 report from Waste Atlas, waste generation in Hong Kong is around 6.4 million tonnes per year or 900 kg/cap/year. [6] Wastes in Hong Kong are first collected from disposal bins to refuse transfer stations (RTS). After they are compacted and put in containers, they are delivered to disposal lands or recycling centers.
From the website's launch in 1999 to 2003, the average number of monthly page views for its maps increased from 0.1 to 4 million. [11] In November 2003, Centamap was the first mapping service licensed by the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department to disseminate census data at the building group level in addition to other GIS functions. [12]