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MONDAY, MAY 16, 1994

THE CONCPET

OF

GREEN

THE

MORAL

MORAL

STRESSING THE NEED TO ATTRIBUTE A MORAL STATUS TO OF GREEN PRODUCTIVITY, DR REED SAID: "THE UNDERLYING VALUES

BE INCULCATED

IN EARLY MUST THEREFORE PRODUCTIVITY EDUCATION OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE SAME WAY AS OTHER FUNDAMENTAL

AND IN THE EARLY YEARS OF FORMAL VALUES, THROUGH FAMILY EXAMPLE

EDUCATION."

HE SAID THE

GOVERNMENT

HAD IN

RECENT

YEARS

MADE

EFFORTS, INCLUDING THE INCLUSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

SETTING UP OF THE FIRST SYLLABUS AND THE

CENTRES, TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE IN THE HONG KONG COMMUNITY.

VIGOROUS INTO SCHOOL

PLANNED

OF A

SERIES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC

HAD

INVOLVED, A WILLINGNESS

AND

TO

VARIOUS GREEN GROUPS SEVERAL COMMERCIAL

INTRODUCE

IN-HOUSE

DR REED SAID HE WAS PLEASED TO SEE THAT BECOME INCREASINGLY ORGANISATIONS HAD ACTIVITIES AIMED AT IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS.

SHOWN

REED SALD WHILE HE RECOGNISE THE MERIT OF BY THE END

ON THE POLLUTER PAYS PRINCIPLE (PPP), DR ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HONG KONG HAD BEEN SLOW TO PPP, ARRANGEMENTS WERE NOW IN HAND FOR THE INTRODUCTION, OF THIS YEAR, OF CHARGES FOR THE TREATMENT

AND COMMERCIAL CHEMICAL WASTES AND FOR DISPOSED OF AT LANDFILL SITES.

AND DISPOSAL OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES

SEWAGE, NORMALLY

A GENERALLY

"EVEN IF SOME SUCCESS IS ACHIEVED IN ESTABLISHING IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC IN THE COMMUNITY, HUMAN NATURE BEING WHAT FOR THE STICK' IN THE SCHEME OF IT IS, THERE IS ALWAYS A PLACE THINGS, HE SAID.

FOR MEASURES

VARIOUS

WERE WHICH WERE NOW

THE PUNITIVE

OFFENCES POLLUTION EMBODIED IN THE VARIOUS POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCES, ENFORCED BY FIVE LOCAL CONTROL OFFICES.

DR

WAS

ANOTHER IMPORTANT ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN GREEN PRODUCTIVITY,

SAID. REED

ENSURE THE AVAILABILITY TO INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL

COLLECTION, THE DISPOSAL OF WASTE WATERS, FOR CHEMICAL AND WELL AS FOR GENERAL MUNICIPAL WASTES.

COMMUNAL AND OTHER SPECIAL WASTES AS

OF TREATMENT

COMPREHENSIVE PLANS TO MEET THIS

PURPOSE HAD BEEN DRAWN UP

SINCE 1986, HE SAID.

" IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE PLANS IS NOW MOVING FORWARD RAPIDLY SEWAGE AND OTHER WASTE WITH AROUND $2.4 BILLION DUE TO BE SPENT ON DISPOSAL FACILITIES IN 1994/95 RISING TO $9.5 BILLION IN 1996/97, SAID.

ALREADY IMPLEMENTED

INCLUDK

PARTS OF THE PLANS COMMISSIONING OF A CHEMICAL WASTE TREATMENT PLANT AND THE BUILDING LANDFILLS AND REFUSE TRANSFER STATIONS.

HE

THE

OF

NOTING

THAT SMALL. AND MEDIUM SIZED

COULD INDUSTRIES OWN INTERNAL TRAINING READILY DEVELOP AND SUPPORT THEIR

PROGRAMMES SAID IT WAS AND INFORMATION DATABASES FOR CLEAN TECHNOLOGY, DR REED

ENSURE THAT THE INDUSTRIES PROPERLY THE ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT CONCERNED HAD ACCESS TO SUCH PROGRAMMES.

NOT

ין'

/HE SAID