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Green SenseIntroduction

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About us……• Established in 2004

Registered as Charitable Institution in 2010

• We aim to point out the non-environmental friendly practice and raise the “green” sense in the general public by means of education, campaigns, research, monitoring, lobbying and publicity, in order to achieve ultimately a better environment for the next generation and the ecology.

Urban Planning

Wise use of Air-conditioningMarine Conservation – No shark’s fin Banquet

Reduction of disposable utensils Festivals wastage

Usage and handling of plastic bags & non-woven bags

Light Pollution

Facts about HK Waste production• 13,326 tonnes per day

• 1.28 kg per capita per day

• Comparing with other cities:

• China : 1.18kg

• Korea : 0.99kg (2006)

• Taiwan : 0.918kg (2009)

• Singapore : 0.84kg (2008)

Plastic Waste in HK

Recycle Bin in HK

Metal (Aluminum)Recycling price : ~HKD 7 / kg

PlasticRecycling price : ~HKD 0.6 / kg

• Plastic is least “attractive” for recycler, comparing with Metal & Paper

• So we have to pay more effort in plastic recycling

Fate of plastic waste – no recycle

Landfill• 3 Landfill sites in HK• Filled up one by one from 2012 to 2016•Source of GHGs

Fate of plastic waste – Recycle

Collecting

Compacting

China

Filtering Shedding Melt & make it into granular shape

Processing

No Processing

Local plastic processing plant• Yan Oi Tong EcoPark Plastic Resources Recycling Centre

http://prrc.yot.org.hk

What plastic is “recycle friendly” ?• Single type of plastic

• Easy to recycle

• Transparent > white > single color

• Easy to dye

• Without additives such as degradation agent

• Guaranteed quality

2 Types of plastic waste in hospital• 1. General

• 2. Clinical waste

• “Clinical Waste is waste from medical premises or laboratory that has the potential to cause disease, including, for example, discarded sharps, laboratory waste, animal and human tissue, blood, swabs and dressing.”

• Waste Disposal Ordinance (Cap. 354) for clinical waste

Example• In US, many hospitals routinely throw from 50-70% of their waste into the

biohazardous waste stream, although a large portion of hospital waste is very similar to that of a hotel or office building—mostly paper, cardboard and food waste

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) suggests that only 2-3% of hospital waste truly needs to be disposed of as infectious waste

• Reprocessing lead to reduce medical waste by >50% a hospital every year

• Focus on the non-pathological and trace chemotherapy wastes (High risk) E.g. saline bag, syringe

• Electrophysiology laboratories :save up to $150,000 annually through the reprocessing of EP and imaging catheters.

• About $150m out of $31.5bn are recycled (Ascent Healthcare Solutions)

http://www.hospitalmanagement.net/features/feature80981/

Example• In US, health care facilities generate 6,600 tons of waste per day in 2006, 80% of

them is solid waste primarily paper, metal, glass, and plastics

• Purchase supplies in minimal and recyclable packaging

• “Five Legacy hospitals convinced a supplier of custom surgery packs to eliminate items not used often enough to justify being included, which saved the system roughly $30,000 per year and eliminated 11,000 pounds of waste.”

• Replace single-use devices to reusable or sustainable products

• Plastic drinking bottles, plastic medication containers, blue plastic wrap around surgical supplies can be easily collected and recycled

• Changing the habit from putting all recyclable items to “trash can” to destined “recycle bin”

• Even gain income from recycling!

http://www.h2e-online.org/docs/nurseweek42406.pdf

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Contect Us• Web : www.greensense.org.hk

• Facebook : www.facebook.com/hkgreensense

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