告別即棄塑膠

We are going around the city to demonstrate the potential of renewable energy, and give you a taste of solar! (© WWF-Hong Kong)

Given our geographical position and our location in the subtropics, Hong Kong is exposed to a lot of solar radiation. WWF’s “Solarising Communities” project launched in 2016 installed on-grid solar PV systems on the rooftops of three stilt houses in Tai O, demonstrating the city’s potential to develop solar energy. The project is now being extended with a 100 per cent solar-powered mobile café that is visiting different districts around the city, offering the public a taste of solar energy.

Click here for Solar Mobile Café tour schedule

由用餐習慣開始

你知道我們每天飲食時使用了多少即棄塑膠嗎？事實上，這些塑膠餐具、器皿和飲管不單在我們的餐盤上出現，在海洋中亦隨處可見。根據本會的「育養海岸」計劃，這些即棄塑膠產品都是香港十大海洋垃圾，長期威脅海洋生態。即使它們經適當回收處理，亦會長時間佔據堆填區的珍貴空間。香港只有約百分之14的塑膠被回收再造，當中塑膠餐具僅佔百分之8，而餐具上的食物殘渣更令它們難以被回收。

保護海洋環境的第一步，是先承諾不再使用即棄塑膠餐具。再進一步，你可以要求餐飲業停止向顧客提供塑膠餐具，並促請政府在2022年前規管飲食業的即棄塑膠用品！

WWF現已加入「免『廢』暢飲」行動，向社會提倡減少一次性飲品包裝、規管包裝標準，並加強回收和循環再造經處理包裝。本會與香港主要飲品製造商、各大零售商、回收業界及一眾非政府組織早前組成工作小組，促請政府立法規管一次性包裝、提供誘因鼓勵回收及循環再造，並增設處理包裝物料的設施，以提高公眾的減廢意識。

工作小組又發起減少廢棄飲品包裝合作計劃，希望能減少棄置在堆填區、郊野公園、沙灘及海洋的飲品包裝。此外，飲品製造商亦主動承諾落實減廢措施，以在2025年前將本地飲品包裝的回收率提升至七至九成。

參考資料：

  1. 環境保護署（2016）：《香港固體廢物監察報告 － 二零一六年的統計數字》，頁3。
    https://www.wastereduction.gov.hk/sites/default/files/msw2016tc.pdf
  2. 立法會秘書處資料研究組（2017）：環境事務數據透視ISSH01/17-18。
    https://www.legco.gov.hk/research-publications/chinese/1718issh01-plastic-waste-20171031-c.pdf

Increase local renewable electricity share to 10 per cent

Currently, Hong Kong’s electricity fuel mix contains about 70 per cent of energy generated by fossil fuels, while only 0.1 per cent is generated by renewable energy. The government should set a long-term target to increase investment in renewable energy to a 10 per cent in the electricity fuel mix by 2030 to facilitate a comprehensive energy turnaround.

© WWF-Hong Kong

© WWF-Hong Kong

Floating solar PV systems on Shek Pik Reservoir demonstrates Hong Kong’s huge potential to increase local renewable energy share to 10 per cent. (© WWF-Hong Kong)

Floating solar PV systems on Shek Pik Reservoir demonstrates Hong Kong’s huge potential to increase local renewable energy share to 10 per cent. (© WWF-Hong Kong)

Our asks

WWF is committed to promote the development of renewable energy and we urge the government to:

  • set the introductory feed-in-tariff rate at HKD$4/kWh to rebate all electricity generated by small-scale domestic solar systems
  • increase the use of the local renewable electricity share to 10 per cent by 2030.

Find out why these asks are achievable.