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Whampoa Garden Site 2
District: Kowloon City
Housing type: Private housing estate
Property management company: Whampoa Garden Management Limited
( A member of Hutchison Whampoa Property Group )
No. of blocks: 18
No. of households: 2,160
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Whampoa Garden Site 2 has collected more than 18 kg per household per month on average of recyclables, and received a Silver Award in the Competition on Source Separation of Domestic Waste 2007/08. It also received an Award for Lowest Waste Disposal Quantity in the competition.
“Environmental protection requires both awareness and action. In the past few years, we have been organizing various kinds of activities with our Tower Owners’ Representatives in order to increase the awareness of our residents of environmental protection. To help them put this into practice, we set up waste separation facilities on each floor. We have also broadened the range of recyclables we collect by adding collection boxes for old clothes, rechargeable batteries, fluorescent lamps, etc, to the 3-coloured bins for waste paper, plastics and metals.”
Estate Management Office
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Waste separation facilities are set up in the
refuse rooms of each floor to collect waste
paper, plastics and metals. Mr. Chow, Chairman of Site 2
Tower Owners’ Representatives Committee, said this made it more convenient to separate waste at source. |
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“The SSW Programme enhances our awareness of the need to separate recyclables from our refuse. My family fully supports the Programme.”
Mrs. Wong,
Resident of Site 2 |
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Periodic collection programmes for other recyclables, such as old clothes, spent printer cartridges, CDs, used books, electrical appliances and moon cake tins, are organised and the collected items are given to non-governmental organisations for resale/recycling. |
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“Many residents here are now practicing waste separation. We find there is less refuse being disposed of since the Programme began.”
Cleaner
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