The site, near private housing estate Kingswood Villas, was once a green belt but is now a ‘waste hill’.
12 March 2016, SCMP Source: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1923535/mountains-misery-tin-shui-wai-residents-left-fearing-safety
Plans to build the city’s first electronic recycling facility in Tuen Mun are being drawn up in a bid to find sustainable solutions to Hong Kong’s mounting municipal waste problem, where 70,000 tonnes of computers and electrical appliances are thrown out every year.
The city is suffocating under a film of plastic: “Each day the equivalent weight of two A380 Airbus planes is discarded” in domestic waste, says Lisa Christensen, co-founder of HK Clean Up initiative.
Scenario 2: Oil leaking ‘Oil is leaking from a ship or from a work site into the sea.’
Scenario 3: Muddy mess ‘A construction site upstream is spewing sludge into a river creating a muddy mess and interfering with the runoff.’
Scenario 4: Construction in countryside ‘A notice on a district office board or in a country park announcing another “much needed” road cutting through the scarce silver of countryside we have.’
