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Wednesday, May 24, 1972
INDUSTRIALISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR TRADE WASTE DISPOSAL
Director Of Urban Services Tells Council
The Director of Urban Services, the Hon. D.R.W. Alexander, said
today the responsibility for disposing of trade waste had to remain with
the individual industrialist.
He was replying in the Legislative Council to Dr. the Hon. S.Y. Chung
who had asked: "In order to help the 'Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign' will
Government consider providing services to dispose of industrial waste and
refuse from factories situated in urban areas?"
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Mr. Alexander pointed out that one of the aims of the forthcoming
campaign was to ensure that industrialists provided themselves with proper
ways and moans of disposing of their waste.
"There is no doubt in my mind, that if I were to take up my Honourable
Friend's suggestion, I would merely be giving the Cleansing Division of
my Department an additional burden which it could not shoulder and which,
far from helping the 'Keep Hong Kong Cloan' Campaign, would make it even
more difficult," he added.
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