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(iii)

Siu Lam to So Kwun Wat

Highways Department is preparing a detailed design for widening this section to a dual two-lane carriageway. The construction work will commence in late 1995 for completion in mid-1998.

(iv) So Kwun Wat to Sam Shing

This section has already been widened to 10.3 metres, and there is now a dual two-lane carriageway adjacent to the Gold Coast development.

End/Wednesday, February 22, 1995

Plastic envelopes bring environmental problems

Following is a question by the Hon Mrs Peggy Lam and a written reply by the Secretary for Economic Services, Mr Gordon Siu, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Is the Government aware that the environmental problems caused by the extensive use of plastic bags have been exacerbated by the increasingly common use of large quantities of plastic envelopes? If so, will the Government inform this Council :

(a)

(b)

of the volume of plastic envelopes currently handled each day by the territory's Post Offices; and

what measures it intends to take to dispose of this type of plastic waste in order to prevent it from becoming another major environmental problem?