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81.

Legislation is only part of our effort to improve

the environment. The commissioning in April of Hong Kong's

first Refuse Transfer Station at Kowloon Bay has made it

possible

Jordan Valley Landfill. Within the

to

close the

next few months, the Lai Chi Kok Incinerator will have been

news to those living nearby. Tenders

shut down

welcome

Nor have we

are being evaluated for a second Transfer Station; a third

is being planned; and a contract for a Chemical Waste

Treatment Centre is due to be signed shortly.

lost sight of the fact that pollution is no respecter of

The establishment of a joint Hong Kong-Guangdong

Environmental Protection Liaison Group in July shows yet

again the importance we attach to co-operation with China on

specific issues which affect us both.

borders.

82.

Encouraging as these

developments

are, there is

much more still to be done.

Government but

our

I hope that not only the

also our major trading and industrial

organisations will take part and show their determination to

environment. The adoption of recycling schemes

and housing estates is а sign that the

becoming increasingly conscious of its

protect

by

companies

community is

responsibility

the

for the environment. One welcome move was

opening

in

November

last year of а Centre of

/Environmental