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In Spite Of Reduce And Reuse, Hong Kong's Plastic Passion Barely Dented
Hong Kong's 7 million citizens use about 3 bags each each day. Photo tboothhk @ flickrIn Hong Kong, long known as a shopper's paradise, everything you buy is swathed in plastic - plastic wrap covers each cucumber, and if you buy the cucumber you'll probably get offered another plastic bag to put it in. Plastic is so ubiquitous to daily life here that it's no surprise that 23 million bags get thrown away each day - 8.3 billion for the government to dispose of annually. Last year Hong Kong placed a levy on bags, and it is estimated that by this summer 1 billion fewer bags will be passed out, slightly slowing the filling of Hong Kong's dumps, which are estimated to reach...
Source: TreeHugger