2. Lately, Hong Kong has accumulated too much rubbish, due to the few recycling points in
the city. In addition, the Beijing ban has been added, which no longer allows importing
24 types of solid waste.The recent introduction of a tax will make citizens pay around 0.11 Hong
Kong dollars (just over 1 euro cent) for each kg of rubbish collected.
This method was very effective in other cities such as South Korea where they
managed to reduce the elimination of waste by more than 30%, but activists don´t
think it´s a good idea. What do you think?
That´s why the local recycling
industry is not being able to
process all the waste it used to
send to China before. So, they
have been looking for
alternatives.
