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Pilot schemes at Fanling and Hung Shui Kiu were
initiated by the former New Territories Services
Department in 1978 and 1982 respectively for the
purposes of obtaining practical experience and
information on costings for future planning.
These experiments showed that collection of animal
waste by contractors is workable but to be cost-
effective its implementation would require the full
co-operation of livestock farmers.
Territory-wide
provision of collection services would almost certainly
not be an economic proposition. The two pilot
schemes have been terminated.
In 1982, another pilot scheme was introduced at
Pat Heung, by the Agriculture and Fisheries
Department as part of the programme under the
Clean Hong Kong Campaign. The main objective of
the scheme was to provide raw animal manure as
input to the Ngau Tam Mei Composting Plant in an
effort to study the feasibility of recycling
animal manure. The scheme is still in operation
but because of its special nature; there has been
no change in either the scale or coverage of the
collection services.