Ngau Chi Wan Park is a 4-hectare public park located at No. It is the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built on a landfill. An average of 793 tonnes of plastic bags are disposed in landfills in Hong Kong every day. West New Territories (WENT) Landfill is one of strategic landfill sites in Hong Kong since 1993. From 1978 to 1981, the knoll currently occupied by Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was known as Sai Tso Wan Landfill. However, EPD statistics say Hong Kong’s current landfills will be completely exhausted in less than two years. Setting out the vision of "Waste Reduction‧Resources Circulation‧Zero Landfill", the blueprint outlines the strategies, goals and measures to tackle the challenge of waste management up to 2035. Most of the municipal solid waste is recyclable like glass, metals, paper, plastic, wood, etc. A landfill in Hong Kong. From the government’s words, these landfills will be fully saturated before late 2010s. 71 Fung Shing Street, Ngau Chi Wan, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Hong Kong 5 – 7 years’ post professional qualification experience in project site work, ideally related to the construction of waste management facilities; 30+ days ago Indeed, prior to the infrastructural modernization of the 1950s, Hong Kong’s Urban Council had maintained a rather minimalist approach to waste management, relying exclusively on unregulated dumping sites that barely satisfied the basic requirements of a sanitary landfill. To use landfills for disposal of plastic bags takes up a lot of landfill space, causing sites to fill up rapidly. Daily, over 7,200 tons of Hong Kong’s waste (as of 2014) are deposited in the WENT landfill. Waste management facilities in Hong Kong 6 : Plate 2.5 Total solid waste received by RTSs and landfills in 2018–By main waste category : 7 : Plate 2.6 ; Arisings of solid waste disposed of at landfills in 2018–By district by main waste category 8 Currently, Hong Kong landfills its non-recycled waste. The Government today (February 8) announced the Waste Blueprint for Hong Kong 2035. As a first step to tackle the problem, the Hong Kong government decided to extend the NENT Landfill to provide an additional capacity of 21m cubic metres, almost doubling its existing capacity. Compared to other asian cities Hong Kong's recycling rate lacks behind that of Singapore with the overall recycling rate 30% and 61% respectively. A recent investigation by Hong Kong local news media HK01 has revealed that plastic bottles collected in recycling bins at residential housing estates have been sent to landfills. This helps Hong Kong make the best use of its valuable land resources. FELT has been awarded the long-term contract to design, build and operate (DBO) the NENT landfill, and to undertake aftercare of the landfill for 30 years after it is full. The landfill served eastern Kowloon. In order to ensure that Hong Kong can maintain environmental hygiene and handle waste properly, currently we still need to extend the landfills and construct other modern waste treatment facilities. The situation is getting worse in these years, as people have no improvement in their consumption style. SUEZ is an expert in landfill restoration. Usually there 3000 TPD Integrated Waste Management Facility off the coast of Shek Kwu Chau 2018-01-10 15:09:27 US$4bn Waste to Energy Deal for Keppel Seghers in Hong Kong Waste to energy and infrastructure firm Keppel Seghers and its Chinese partner, Zhen Hu, have been awarded a contract worth $4 billion for Hong Kong’s first integrated Waste Management Facility to be built on a reclaimed island. 3000 TPD Integrated Waste Management Facility off the coast of Shek Kwu Chau 2018-01-10 15:09:27 US$4bn Waste to Energy Deal for Keppel Seghers in Hong Kong Waste to energy and infrastructure firm Keppel Seghers and its Chinese partner, Zhen Hu, have been awarded a contract worth $4 billion for Hong Kong’s first integrated Waste Management Facility to be built on a reclaimed island. The IWMF is Hong Kong's first integrated waste management facility for municipal solid waste. Mr Cowland, of Geosystems Ltd HK, is an independent geotechnical engineering consultant based in Hong Kong. Hong Kong would be swamped with rubbish if its three landfills were not expanded, the environment chief warned yesterday, as Tseung Kwan O residents took to the streets to oppose the plan. Using plastic bottles wired with GPS trackers, the journalists located that out of 14 housing estates, both public and private, the plastic contents in recycling bins of 9 buildings were not being recycled. This landfill is one of the two in Hong Kong operated by the French company Suez Environment, the other being the North-East New Territories (NENT) Landfill. With the wasteful lifestyle of Hong Kong citizens, the 4 major landfills in Hong Kong are going to be saturated. The park, which was built on a former landfill site, features landscaped gardens and recreational facilities available for public use for a fee. In Hong Kong, landfill dumping has been a main approach for municipal solid wastes disposal and will be continued in the near future. Abbreviations used in this report are listed on page iv for ease of reference. Although 29% of municipal solid waste generated in Hong Kong is recycled, much more needs to be done. Hong Kong landfills are some of the biggest in the world and are located in steep valleys. A former landfill site, covered with grass, is seen in front of a residential area at Tseung Kwan O district in Hong Kong, China November 1, 2017. Landfills in the global financial hub of 7 million people are nearly full as the volume of waste rises for a fifth straight year and recycling lags behind other Asian cities. This gas, made up of methane, carbon dioxide and small amounts of non-methane hydrocarbons, in turn needs to be flared off both polluting the environment and contributing to global warming. There are now 13 closed landfill sites in Hong Kong, and a restoration program has been launched since 1999 to transform the closed landfill sites back into recreational area.