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Tuesday, September 4, 1973
MORE INCINERATION PLANTS ON THE WAY
Four more major incineration plants will be built in Hong Kong
to cope with the overflow from the existing incinerators and to further
inprove environmental hygiene.
One of the new plants is already under construction at Lai Chi
Kok and a second is about to be built at Kwai Chung.
Planning for the other two plants, one on the island and the
other in the Sha Tin Valley, New Territories, are now at an advanced stage.
Consulting engineers have been appointed by the govenment to
carry out intensive investigations into the best sites for the fifth and
the sixth plants.
The new plants, when fully operational by the end of this decade,
will play an important role in the disposal of the large volume of daily refuse.
At present, the daily refuse collection averages 2,600 tons in
the urban areas
--
800 tons on the island and 1,800 tons in Kowloon.
About 1,200 tons of the total are taken care of by the two
incineration plants in Kennedy Town and Lai Chi Kok while the remainder is
disposed of in Gin Drinker's Bay Refuse Dump and other controlled dumping areas.
Commenting on the new Lai Chi Kok plant, a government spokesman
said that the construction of the incinerator proper at a site adjacent to
the existing plant was progressing well.
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