{"id":5670,"date":"2013-05-04T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T08:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2013-05-04T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T08:33:22","slug":"hong-kong-struggles-to-combat-waste-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong struggles to combat waste crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/\u0561\u0572\u0562.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5668\" alt=\"\u0561\u0572\u0562\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/\u0561\u0572\u0562.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>An army of road sweepers and refuse collectors keep the streets clean in the heart of Hong Kong &#8212; but on the outskirts, growing mountains of waste are testament to what campaigners say is an environmental crisis.<\/p>\n<p>While the city may look well-kept, its three huge outdoor landfill sites are piled high with rubbish and are set to reach capacity by 2020, according to the government&#8217;s Environmental Protection Department (EPD).<\/p>\n<p>Some predictions say the first will be full in a year or two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to have a clear roadmap for waste reduction, otherwise our rubbish will be on the streets in seven years&#8217; time,&#8221; environmental scientist Professor Jonathan Wong, of the Hong Kong Baptist University , told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the 13,000 tonnes of rubbish dumped at landfills in Hong Kong each day is termed &#8216;municipal solid waste&#8217; (MSW), generated by households, business and industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An army of road sweepers and refuse collectors keep the streets clean in the heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}