Climate Change: Solid Waste

We have covered different facets of climate change in the past few months, and now come to the final issue of this series -- Solid Waste. The COVID-19 has given rise to an unprecedented surge of food delivery/take-away orders. What comes along is an unprecedented consumption of individually wrapped, one-off plastic tableware. In the name of hygiene under the pandemic, all seems justified. However, disposable tableware only accounts for a small tip of the global waste issue. Waste is a twin to climate change. How is it so? Let's have a look.

GREEN Hospitality Online Conference 2020 | Topic 2: The Plastic Problem

Speaker: Christelle Not, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

GREEN Hospitality Online Conference 2020 | Topic 1: Food Waste

Speaker: Heidi Spurrell, CEO of Food Made Good HK

Environment and Health：Consumption Climate Change

Publisher: RTHK

Next, let's have a listen to Hong Kong's current waste management and treatment approach, and compare it with the global movement.

GREEN Hospitality Online Conference 2020 | Topic 3: Waste Management and Treatment

Speaker: Shirley Yuen, Senior Environmental Protection Officer, Environmental Protection Department, HKSARG

Zero Waste Circular Economy: A Systemic Game-Changer to Climate Change?

Speaker: Mariel Vilella, Director of Global Strategy, Zero Waste Europe/Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)

Once again, other than careful site search for landfills or waste processing facilities, what can you and I do? Let’s look at what each of us, and the private sector, can do to alleviate the solid waste issue.