the existing Waste Disposal and Water Pollution Ordinances and will be followed by a comprehensive Noise Control Bill, thus providing a legal framework for pollution control.
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Told Harbour was declared the first Water Control Zone, under the Water Pollution Control Ordinance, in February of this year. Water Quality Objectives for the Zone were gazetted in June. The next step is the making of detailed regulations which are necessary for .control and then finally comes enforcement. Regulatione undęz the Waste Disposal Ordinance to control agricultural waste, toxic, difficult and hazardous wastes are also being drawn up.
85.
The Clean Hong Kong Campaign was launched ОП 25th October 1981 and will continue until the end of December this year. Its operations began with a block-to-block clean up in all parts of the Urban Area and the New Towns, followed by a sustained effort in public housing estates and Temporary Housing Areas when some 85 ratusa collection points Were completed. In the countryside an unprecedented operation was mounted to clean all 617 villages in the New Territories, followed by the encouragement of enlightened
enlightened self-interest through the introduction of village self-cleansing contracts on a trial basis.
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The Marine Department hap intonsified ite harbour cleansing activities, and improved ite. equipment by the purchase of four additional specially designed vessels to pick up floating refuse.
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show that cleaning is not enough a programme of planting trees, shrubs and plante has been started. This will carry through into 1983. Some. 2.6 million plantings have taken
place.
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