Hong Kong has failed to meet its midterm waste reduction target, as latest official figures showed that the daily municipal solid waste the average citizen sent into landfills last year had increased 14 per cent from 2013, when the target was set.
The target, introduced in the government’s Blueprint for Sustainable Use of Resources 2013-2022, is for daily municipal solid waste disposed per capita to drop by 20 per cent to 1kg or lower by 2017, and by 40 per cent to 0.8kg or less by 2022....
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