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The
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OVERALL POLICY OBJECTIVES
Government's
overall policy objectives for
the management of wastes are to ensure
the provision, by either the private or the
facilities for the
pu blic sectors,
cost-effective
of
and
environmentally
satisfactory disposal of all wastes;
of
the availability of and proper enforcement
legislation ai med at safeguarding the
health and welfare of the community from any
adverse
effects associated
environmental
with the storage, collection, treatment and
disposal of all wastes.
CURRENT PROGRAMMES
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Councils
Wastes are collected and delivered to disposal
sites by the collection authorities (the Urban and Regional
and the DEP) and by numerou s private waste
contractors. The collection authorities collect
for disposal most household wastes, all street
wastes, and so me commercial and chemical wastes. Other
waste is handled by the private sector.
collection
and deliver
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Final disposal is
landfills at Pillar Point,
to one of four Govern ment
Shuen Wan, Jordan Valley and
collected household wastes are
incinerators, to reduce their volume, with
weight) of the residue being disposed at
So me publicly
Junk
burnt
Bay.
first
in
So me 25%
(by
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