Solid Waste

Hong Kong solid waste strategy knocked backed by legislators
The Hong Kong Government’s Environment Bureau has abandoned a HKD23 billion (USD3 billion) funding request for major solid waste disposal projects, including a waste-to-energy incineration facility, following its failure to gain support from lawmakers. Faced with the prospect of Hong Kong’s three landfills reaching full capacity in the next few years, the government had proposed building a 3,000 tonne per day Integrated Waste Management Facility on a man-made island south of Lantau Island as well extending one of the exiting landfill sites.
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China has mounting environmental problems says Li Ganjie
Vice minister pulls no punches on China's environment
CleanBiz.Asia Staff
June 05, 2011
In a wide ranging and unusually frank press conference on Friday China's Vice Minister of Environmental Protection, Li Ganjie, told journalists that while the country had met pollution reduction targets set for the 11th Five-Year Plan between 2006 and 2010, three decades of fast-paced economic growth has nonetheless left its environment in very poor shape.
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Beitou Incinerator, Taipei
Greener future for Taiwan's waste disposal facilities
Kwangyin Liu
March 25, 2011
Taiwan's waste disposal facilities are poised to take on more environmentally friendly and energy-saving roles, according to the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA).
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Hong Kong landfill
Hong Kong eyes $3.2 billion investment to tackle solid waste
In a submission to Hong Kong's Legislative Council the Special Administrative Region's Environmental Protection Department (EPD) put a price tag yesterday on its proposed solutions to city's looming waste management problem
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China water pollution
China resumes accounting for the environmental cost of economic growth
China suffered almost CNY1.3 trillion (USD200 billion) worth of damage to its environment in 2008 - equivalent to 3.9 percent of GDP - according to a report issued by the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning.
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