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The Environmental Compliance Division, responsible for enforcing pollution laws and facilitating business not only to comply with environmental requirements but also going beyond compliance. The Air Policy Division , responsible for policy formulation, strategic planning and program development in the field of air quality management.
Clean Air Network (CAN, traditional Chinese: 健康空氣行動; simplified Chinese: 健康空气行动) is an independent non-governmental organisation exclusively focused on the issue of air pollution in Hong Kong. CAN aims to educate the public about the health impacts of air pollution and to mobilise public support for cleaner air in Hong Kong.
Ship with tourists, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, 2024. Pollutants from marine vessels are main sources of air pollution in Hong Kong. As per the Clean Air Network, 53% of Hong Kong's pollution comes from local sources – power stations, idling engines of cars, trucks and buses and marine emissions as of 2012.
An aerosol must be assigned to Division 2.2 if the contents contain 1% by mass or less flammable components and the heat of combustion is less than 20 kJ/g. Division 2.3 : Toxic Gas Gas poisonous by inhalation means a material which is a gas at 20 °C or less and a pressure of 101.3 kPa (a material which has a boiling point of 20 °C or less at ...
As Hong Kong is very close to the sea as well as to heavily built up areas, the control of emissions is of high importance. [16] Wherever possible, landfill gas is used as a fuel for the generation of power and, in Hong Kong, landfill gas is used to generate electricity and to provide power for the treatment of leachate produced from the ...
Division 1.1: Substances and articles which have a mass explosion hazard Division 1.2: Substances and articles which have a projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard Division 1.3: Substances and articles which have a fire hazard and either a minor blast hazard or a minor projection hazard or both, but not a mass explosion hazard
Hong Kong is administratively divided into 18 districts. Each district has a district council. District councils was formerly called district boards, for which the boards were established in 1982, [1] when Hong Kong was under British rule. However, the districts have limited relevance to the population, as few public services operate according ...
2.1 Flammable Gas: Gases which ignite on contact with an ignition source, such as acetylene, hydrogen, and propane. 2.2 Non-Flammable Gases : Gases which are neither flammable nor poisonous. Includes the cryogenic gases/liquids (temperatures of below -100 °C) used for cryopreservation and rocket fuels, such as nitrogen , neon , and carbon ...