Today’s SCMP has a great story of how Hong Kong (shamefully) ends up as the most wasteful city in the world. It reminded me of my trip to Taipei two months ago – I was invited to study Taiwan’s developments on environmental protection, and an important part of my trip is to study how they deal with their waste. So I’ve seen how people dumping their house waste using expensive trash bags in the afternoon and how the recycling trash bins work on the street, and I’ve talked to government officials who is managing the policy, I’ve visited the stations where volunteers gather to process the recyclable materials, and I’ve even had a good lunch on the top of its incinerator which has a good view of Taipei City without bad smells. Below is a story based on my report after the trip – sorry it is in Chinese only.

近日环保议题在香港颇受关注。今天的南华早报头版报道标题令人大吃一惊——香港居然是全球制造垃圾最多的城市，并且缺少有效的处理办法——政府除了填埋不知其他措施，而填埋方案又由于影响到自然环境而受到各方质疑最终被拖延。这些争议让我回想起两个月前的台北之行——我受邀去考察当地的环保措施，而其中重要的一个组成部分便是台北的垃圾处理办法。香港与台北的各方面情况都类似，想必能有不少可借鉴之处吧。