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Scrap paper crisis urges upgrade of recycling industry
¡iĶ¤å¡jA "scrap paper crisis" hits Hong Kong briefly as the city's recycling business association suspended waste paper recycling from 16-18 September. This temporary crisis has exposed the local recycling industry's major weaknesses: it only acts as a low-tech garbage hub, and it lacks the initiative to upgrade operations.
To steer Hong Kong's recycling industry in the right direction and regain competitiveness, both the government and the sector should see the crisis as an opportunity to promote upgrading and restructuring. The government should formulate long-term plans and provide necessary support, whereas the industry should upgrade its skills and equipment.
Mainland has long upgraded threshold
90 per cent of Hong Kong's recycled scrap paper is exported to mainland China. Due to economic development and a higher emphasis on environmental protection, China has become more reluctant to import garbage from other regions, and requirements on waste imports have been tightened.
July this year, the State Council announced it would ban 24 types of imported waste including waste plastics and unsorted scrap papers by the end of 2017. By then, all waste exports to mainland China have to be processed by local recyclers first.
However, the local recycling industry did not pay enough attention, and was totally unprepared for the change.
As early as 2013, when China banned unshredded plastic bottle imports after Operation Green Fence first kicked off, it already sent a clear message regarding the raised threshold for waste imports. The authorities and the sector should have swiftly responded to the change in order to meet the tightened import management regime. There was still ample time for the authorities to communicate and take action even after the State Council's announcements in July.
Yet evidently, it was only after the association suspended collection that aroused public concern, which then prompted the Environmental Protection Department to devise temporary measures.
Government can subsidise
The crisis has exposed the fact that our recycling system is primitive at best, and can barely do anything than to pack and ship. Environmental and recycling industries are thriving around the globe, however it is the sorted recyclable refuse that fuel their development, not piles of mixed and unprocessed garbage. Piled up in recycling plants and often lacked primary treatment, recycled wastes in Hong Kong not only provide little added value, but are also a source of pollution and fire hazard.
The third-alarm fire that broke out in a local recycling plant earlier has already rung the alert. If the local recycling industry were to survive, the quality of their products must catch up with international standards.
As a facilitator of the local recycling industry's upgrading and restructuring, the government's role is very important. Recycling industry is highly related with livelihood issues, therefore governments of many countries and regions, such as South Korea and Taiwan, would directly subsidise the sector.
To drive the local recycling sector forwards, the Hong Kong government in the long run should learn from their experience, strengthen the provision of technical training, and provide subsidies to the recycling industry.¡½Jeffrey Tse [ywc_jeffrey@hotmail.com]
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