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Hong Kong environmental issues
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  • Calls to again postpone or scrap controversial pay-as-you-throw scheme prompt Chief Executive John Lee to review its implementation and ‘plan way forward’
  • Trial run set for next week ahead of full launch in August, with city leader saying any changes using public feedback will boost government credibility

City’s finance chief and California’s secretary for environmental protection Yana Garcia call for political differences to be put aside at a University of Hong Kong forum.

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Readers discuss the need for national governments to work with cities on climate change, public officials using plastic bags and containers, and the potential for social media to help ecological preservation.

Government to post warnings at immigration checkpoints and hotels to remind travellers to have their own hygiene products, such as razors, because of throwaway plastics ban.

The government should further open the local environment-protection market to attract investment from Greater Bay Area companies, says a vice-president at the Hong Kong-listed company.

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Readers discuss Hong Kong’s plans for an information and technology zone at the northern border, the proposed monthly firework displays, crowds on a bus route popular with tourists, and the need for a better strategy to promote the city.

Readers discuss the government’s plan to hold monthly firework displays over Victoria Harbour, what Singapore offers Chinese tourists, and the need for Hong Kong to spruce up its streets.

Society for Community Organisation poll finds quarter say they may flush food waste down toilet and more than half say will avoid taking out trash every day.

Hong Kong’s recycling pace lags that in Europe and the US, but government intervention could help transform the landscape as growing landfills contaminate the soil.