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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1990

TO OVERCOME THIS DEFICIENCY, AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER WASTE DISPOSAL NEEDS, A CENTRALISED CHEMICAL WASTE TREATMENT WOULD BE DEVELOPED ON TSING YI ISLAND.

CHEMICAL FACILITY

TENDERS

GOVERNMENT,

FOR THE AND IT WAS

PROJECT

EXPECTED

WERE NOW

THAT THE

BEING EXAMINED

SERVICE

BY

THE

WOULD

BE

IN

OPERATION IN 1992-93.

5.

TERM).

ENFORCEMENT OF CHEMICAL WASTE CONTROL

REGULATIONS

(MEDIUM

BOARD AND THOSE

AND

INDUSTRY, INCLUDING THE INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS MORE CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH ELECTROPLATING FACTORIES CIRCUIT BOARD MANUFACTURERS, WOULD BE CONSULTED ON WHICH WOULD BE PROMULGATED BEFORE THE TREATMENT OPERATION.

THESE REGULATIONS FACILITY COMES INTO

6. PROMOTING LOCALLY AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY IN AND RECOVERY (LONG TERM).

WASTE TREATMENT

PROMOTING LOCALLY AVAILABLE POLLUTION CONTROL AND

MR OXLEY SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIELDS OF CLEAN PRODUCTION, WASTE RECOVERY FOR THE INDUSTRIES.

THE

PRIVATE

SECTOR

ALSO ENCOURAGED

TO INSTAL WASTE VIA ENERGY A GOOD

WAS RECOVERY SYSTEMS AND SOME FACTORIES IN THESE SECTORS HAD, SAVING AND RESOURCE RECOVERY, FOUND THAT SUCH SYSTEMS PROVIDE FINANCIAL RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT.

IN CONCLUSION, MR

OXLEY

SEWAGE

PROVISION OF THE

A KEY FEATURE OF THE

SAID THE

WAS ISLAND TREATMENT PLANT ON STONECUTTERS GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAMME TO DEAL WITH WASTEWATERS,

"IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THE COST PLANT IS ESTIMATED AT $365 MILLION PER ANNUM.

OF OPERATING THIS

REQUIRED

"A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THIS COST WILL BE

TOXIC METALS DISCHARGED FROM SUBSTANTIAL QUANTITIES OF

HE ADDED.

AREAS SUCH AS TSUEN WAN AND KWUN TONG,

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