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long service payments to employees; and amendments to

and

the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance

to impose general responsibilities on employers

employees in respect of work safety.

(f)

Environment

48.

In the field of environmental protection,

the Hong Kong Government is continuing its efforts to

combat pollution. Particular attention is now being

paid to controlling the discharge of untreated wastes

from factories and to checking the uncontrolled

disposal of livestock wastes into streams, which is a

major cause of water pollution. The Waste Disposal

Ordinance was amended in October 1987 to prohibit the

keeping of livestock in the urban area and the new

towns and to provide for a ten-year animal waste

control programme. New plans are also being prepared

for the disposal of solid waste which, when fully

operational,

municipal

should

enable

the

incinerators, the source of much air pollution, to be

closed down. In addition, new and costly schemes are

being prepared for more effective sewage disposal

which are likely to call for an investment of as much

as HK$10 billion over the next decade.

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