Now a day, Hong Kong produces a huge amount of rubbish every day due to excess packaging from products and fast food containers. Formerly Hong Kong’s landfills can use to around 2020. However, the rubbish’s growth rate is too fast that Hong Kong’s landfills will full before 2020. The government needs to find a new place to landfill. But citizen are general against the facilities of waste disposal. Even government promote to build the facilities, the citizen must opposed. To reduces the conflict. We need to face up to this problem.
What was the cause of this problem? It is causing by citizen like to use the once time containers for example, waribashi. Waste disposal is often seen at richness society. Hong Kong’s people pursue the consumerism. When they proceed to Shopping and have meals, they will make a huge amount of rubbish that they are the package and containers, but they usually use once time and then discard. Even it will make a huge amount of rubbish, but they still carry on. It is because use the package and container are convenient and Hong Kong’s people’s eco-awareness is not enough.
Even Hong Kong’s the government builds more landfills or address penalty. The landfills will still full in future. To address solution, reduce to make rubbish is the most effective to help us. Base on Once environmental group’s survey Mac Donald, which is a fame fast food shop? In the 2 hours of the lunch time, they have waste about ten million of fast food containers. Although they have the “Without straw day” every month, but it is to exist in name only. And there set up the container recycle bin in Japanese and Taiwan’s Mac Donald , but there set up the recycle bin of electric cell in Hong Kong’s Mac Donald only.
To reduce the waste of fast food containers, we can bring the containers that they can use again. It is a good way to reduce waste and keep the fast food shop’s income. But the more workable way is the fast food shop try to carry out the recycle containers, there are many fast food shop try to carry this way for example, Yoshinoya and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Anyhow, if we want to reduce the waste, citizen’s consciousness is the most important.
