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Pilot schemes at Fanling and Hung Shui Kiu were

initiated by the former New Territories Services

Department in 1978 and 1982 respectively for the

purposes of obtaining practical experience and

information on costings for future planning.

These experiments showed that collection of animal

waste by contractors is workable but to be cost-

effective its implementation would require the full

co-operation of livestock farmers.

Territory-wide

provision of collection services would almost certainly

not be an economic proposition. The two pilot

schemes have been terminated.

In 1982, another pilot scheme was introduced at

Pat Heung, by the Agriculture and Fisheries

Department as part of the programme under the

Clean Hong Kong Campaign. The main objective of

the scheme was to provide raw animal manure as

input to the Ngau Tam Mei Composting Plant in an

effort to study the feasibility of recycling

animal manure. The scheme is still in operation

but because of its special nature; there has been

no change in either the scale or coverage of the

collection services.