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landfill
free
sites.
Privately collected wastes are disposed of
Most
of charge at the Government's lan dfills.
livestock wastes are disposed of into watercourses and most
chemical wastes into drains, although a stop-gap advisory
service
on che mi cal waste disposal has been operated
successfully by the EPD and the Civil Engineering Services
Department over the past 10 years. Water works sludges are
discharged either to sea or to
inland watercourses and
sew age treatment work s sludges are partially dewatered and
disposed to lan dfill.
Pulverised fuel ash is either
recycled
in
construction
materials
or
purpose-designed lagoons.
illustrated in Figure 1.
The
overall
stored
sche me
in
is
ADEQUACY OF CURRENT PROGRAMMES
The small landfill sites near the
ma in urban
2.8
areas and municipal incinerators, built and operated over
the past 20
30 years, have generally served Hong Kong
well. Also, through the independent efforts of Hong Kong's
a significant proportion of Hong Kong's
for recycling.
a mount of wastes
volu me but in the
entrepreneurs,
wastes
are
Nevertheless,
recovered
and exported
with the growth in the
produced by the community, not only in
proportion of potentially hazardous chemicals, radioactive
and clinical wastes, combined with the growing expectations
of the community for improved environmental conditions,
waste mana ge ment
current
difficulties.
the
program me
is encountering
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urban
The
areas
are
relatively sma 11
be ing filled rapidly.
landfill sites
incinerators are gi ving
complaints.
Completed
rise to
lan dfill
near the
Fu mes from
increasing concern and
sites which were not
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