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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1994

AND IT WAS LOCAL FACTORS THAT OFTEN DETERMINED THAT SHOULD BE PLACED ON PRETREATMENT OF WASTE, HE SAID.

THE EMPHASIS

SUCH AS TESTIMONY TO THIS WAS THE FACT THAT SOME COUNTRIES,

KOR LANDFILL

THE AUSTRALIA',

KOREA, TAIWAN,

USA AND UK, RELIED ON

i LITTLE WASTE, WITH DIRECT DISPOSAL OF 85 TO 98 PER CENT OF THEIR

SUCH PRETREATMENT BY INCINERATION OR ANY OTHER MEANS, WHEREAS OTHERS AS JAPAN,

USED PRETREATMENT BY LUXEMBURG, SWITZERLAND AND SWEDEN INCINERATION OR OTHER MEANS FOR 60 TO 77 PER CENT OF THEIR WASTE.

FOR DISTRICT "IN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE PROCESS HEAT GENERATION HEATING AND OTHER PURPOSES, OR ELECTRICITY GENERATION, DOES NOT OF PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS TO OFFSET THE FUNDAMENTALLY HIGH COST

SITES

BE CANNOT

FOUND FOR AND INCINERATION,

WHERE SUITABLE INCINERATORS CLOSE TO THE CENTRE OF WASTE ARISINGS, BUT REMOTE CAN STILL BE FOUND FOR LARGE LANDFILLS, THEN HIGH STANDARD LANDFILLING UNTIL LOCAL OF UNTREATED WASTE WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE BEST OPTION CONDITIONS CHANGE," DR REED SAID.

MANAGEMENT

HONG IN IT DID

SITES

KONG'S HAVE AN SPECIAL WASTE, WASTE,

WHILE INCINERATION HAD NOT YET FOUND A ROLE

OF MUNICIPAL WASTE, THE STRATEGY FOR IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR DEALING WITH SUCH AS CERTAIN CHEMICALS FROM INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE, CLINICAL ANIMAL CARCASSES AND THE CREMATION OF HUMAN REMAINS, HE SAID.

FOR

"CURRENT PLANNING CALLS FOR A 33 TONNES A DAY INCINERATOR THE TREATMENT OF CLINICAL WASTE TO BE LOCATED ON A SITE IN THE WEST OF THE TERRITORY AND, OF COURSE, WE ALREADY HAVE A SPECIALIST INCINERATOR AS PART OF THE CHEMICAL WASTE TREATMENT CENTRE ON TSING YI ISLAND," DR REED SAID.

FUTURE, DR

REED

DEPARTMENT

HAD

SAID HIS ΤΟ THE LOOKING

ESTABLISH COMMISSIONED A MAJOR STUDY WHICH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WOULD

THE POTENTIAL FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR AVOIDANCE OF WASTE AND ASSESS

BULK REDUCTION RESOURCE RECOVERY AND RECYCLING, AS WELL AS VARIOUS PROCESSES, INCLUDING INCINERATION.

ARE DUB IN "RECOMMENDATIONS ARISING FROM THIS STUDY, WHICH

UPDATING THE TERRITORY'S

APRIL 1995, WILL BE USED AS A BASIS FOR STATUTORY WASTE DISPOSAL PLAN,"

HE SAID.

GUIDELINES ON OPEN STORAGE AND PORT BACK-UP USES ENDORSED

THE TOWN PLANNING BOARD HAS ENDORSED A SET OF APPLICATION FOR PORT BACK-UP AND OPEN STORAGE USES.

GUIDELINES FOR

LAND

THE GUIDELINES WERE DRAWN UP FOLLOWING A STUDY ON PORT

BY THE PLANNING AND OPEN STORAGE REQUIREMENTS COMMISSIONED DEPARTMENT.

BACK-UP

THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO IDENTIFY THE PROBLEMS NEEDS OF PORT BACK-UP AND OPEN STORAGE USES IN HONG KONG AND PREPARE A STRATEGY FOR ACCOMMODATING THE FUTURE LAND REQUIREMENT.

/THE STUDY

AND

ΤΟ