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Snapshots of "Friends of EcoPark 2010/11" Award Presentation Ceremony We are much honoured that the awarding companies and organizations took time to attend the "Friends of EcoPark 2010/11" Award Presentation Ceremony and receive the award on 17 May 2011 (Tuesday). The awardees together with the honourable guests witnessed a glorious commemorable moment.     Dr. Lawrence Wong, the Principal Environmental Protection Officer of Environmental Protection Department (Waste Reduction & EcoPark Group) made an opening address at the ceremony.         Mr. Chan Wan Sang, MH, the Tuen Mun district councilor and the chairman of Environment, Hygiene and District Development Committee gave a sharing about the past and coming close cooperation between the Tuen Mun district council, the Environmental Protection Department and EcoPark.         The EcoPark's tenants introduced their recycling plants' operation and shared their successful recycling business experiences to the attendees.         Some of awardees were invited to share their successful partnership stories with the EcoPark's tenants and their own green operation strategies and policies.         The EcoPark's tenants set up mini exhibition counters to introduce their recycling plants' operation.

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A GREEN TALE OF THREE CITIES As its topic of Sustainable Development Project 2010–11 is ‘Eco-City', H.K.U. Engineering Alumni Association (HKUEAA) arranged a visit to the EcoPark on 5 Mar for its engineering students and alumni to appreciate various environmentally-friendly concepts in Visitor Centre, tenants - Yan Oi Tong EcoPark Plastic Resources Recycling Centre and Champway Technology Ltd. In May, some of them went to Korea to visit some of the waste management facilities there. Simon Tam, Sustainable Development Convenor of HKUEAA said, "The visit was indeed inspiring. If we had not seen all the waste recycling facilities in EcoPark, we would never know the seemingly useless waste that Hong Kong people produce massively everyday, such as plastic bottles, plastic bags, rancid oils, can be converted into useful items with monetary value. Although land in Hong Kong is scarce, it does not mean that the recycling industry cannot be well-developed. It depends on whether the government endeavours to promote the industry that creates local economic values. "Our study tour to Korea in May let us learn an international-leading example on waste recycling. We visited the SUDOKWON landfill site in Incheon and the World Cup Park in Seoul which was built on a former abandoned landfill. Both public facilities have a leisure park which was built on ‘dump hills'. The operational electricity was generated by the waste collected from Seoul and Incheon. Actually they are also facing the same problem of searching land to extending their landfills as in Hong Kong. However, by innovative waste treatment method, they have successfully turned the landfill site into a popular, world-class tourist spot." Coincidently, the motto of SUDOKWON Landfill Site Management Corporation (SLC) – ‘Waste, but Energy'! echoes "Waste from Energy", a proposition getting more attention in Hong Kong community. After the visits, the participants believe that Hong Kong can also treat waste to create infinite values to our society.     Representative from tenant Champway Technology Ltd. (second on left) takes questions from engineering students and alumni.   Participants visit a landfill turned world class football stadium in Seoul Environmental Protection Department 25th Anniversary - Modern Waste Transfer, Recycling, Treatment and Restoration Facility Open Days To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Environmental Protection Department (EPD), various modern waste transfer, recycle, treatment and restoration facilities owned by the EPD are opened to the public on some Sundays and Saturdays in May, June and July 2011.           The public enthusiastically joined the EcoPark's visit. All of them enjoyed a joyful, interesting and meaningful day at EcoPark.         The EcoPark's tenants set up mini exhibition booths for providing more information about their recycling plants' operation to the visitors. The visitors showed their keen interest on understanding more about reduce, reuse and recycling.         EcoPark would like to raise public awareness on the importance of waste reduction, management and recycling through a variety of game stalls.         Other than the mini exhibition booths and game stalls, the visitors had an opportunity to visit the visitor centre of EcoPark and the lots of EcoPark's tenants. Volunteer Training Session for Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE)   The Community Relations Officer provided a training session for the students of the IVE on 11 May 2011 (Wednesday). The students already completed the training session and were presented with a volunteer certificate. After the completion of the training session, the students will be arranged to lead visiting tour in coming future. You may meet with one of them during visiting EcoPark.

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2011-05-06 HKBU's International Conference on Solid Waste 2011   Hong Kong Baptist University held the HKBU's International Conference on Solid Waste 2011. The scholars and professors from distinct countries were invited to attend the conference and visit various solid waste management facilities in Hong Kong, including EcoPark. The picture shows the docent of EcoPark was giving a brief about the current solid waste situation and the recycling processes of municipal solid waste in Hong Kong to visitors in order to let them know more about the related environmental protection work in Hong Kong. Visitors expressed keen interest in knowing more about the recycling industry in the EcoPark.         The visitors were also arranged to visit different recycling lots in the EcoPark. The picture shows the Yan Oi Tong EcoPark Plastic Resources Recycling Center and Champway Technology Ltd. A wireless receiver was distributed to visitor respectively so that they were able to clearly listen to the docent's explanation at a noisy environment. 2011-06-01 The Delegation of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Visiting EcoPark   The 20 Government officials of the Delegation of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee at division level visited EcoPark on 01 June 2011 (Wednesday). Other than visiting the EcoPark's visitor centre, they also visited the EcoPark's tenants' lots.         The picture shows Mr. Mak, the Assistant Manager of St. James' Settlement "WEEE GO GREEN" EcoPark WEEE Recycling Centre was discussing about the serious problems of dumping waste electronic and electrical equipments in Hong Kong with the officials. 2011-06-20 EcoPark Visit by Business Environment Council   EcoPark organized a visit to EcoPark for the members of Business Environment Council (BEC) on 20 June 2011 (Monday). Over 35 members of BEC enthusiastically joined the visit.         Ms. Noel Au, the Project Manager of EcoPark, Serco Guardian JV gave a brief presentation to introduce EcoPark to the visitors.         The EcoPark's docent led the visitors to tour the Visitor Centre and introduced the interesting and engaging exhibits which increase the visitors' awareness on environment protection and understanding of municipal solid waste management and helps them to rethink about 3Rs – "reduce, reuse and recycle".         The visitors were also arranged to visit the tenants' lots to understand more about their lots' operation. EcoPark would like to source more waste for the tenants through building cooperation networks with corporations through EcoPark visit. 2011-06-27 EcoPark Receiving Students from Singapore and Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education             EcoPark received students from Singapore and IVE on 27 June 2011 (Monday). The students visited the Visitor Centre of EcoPark and the tenants' lots in order to let them understand more about the operation of EcoPark.

Café de Coral – Redemption of Green Utensil Use less disposable utensil, Support recyclable plastics All profits are donated to "YOT EcoPark Plastic Resources Recycling Centre"   Café de Coral launched "Redemption of green utensil" activity in order that customers are encouraged using less disposable utensil from 7 June 2011 (Tuesday) to 20 June 2011 (Monday). The customers were only required to add HK$9 to redeem a set of stainless utensil including chopsticks, knife and spoon. This activity aims to encourage the public takes active participation in waste reduction and support plastic recycling activities. All incomes from this activity without deduction of costs are donated to "YOT EcoPark Plastic Resources Recycling Centre" for purchase of more collection equipment and the collection points are thus expanded. Moreover, a portion of contribution is also spent on educating public about environmental protection, i.e. launching visits to recycling centre for schools and the public.

Li Tong Group Li Tong Group (Li Tong), established in 2000, officially commenced its recycling plant in EcoPark in August 2010. Li Tong has successfully established partnership relationships with various renowned brands to collect computer equipment items by providing professional services. It is undoubtedly that everyone must be very familiar what the recyclable computer equipment items includes, i.e. LCD/CRT monitors, printers, scanners and computer hard disk etc. However, whether everyone knows how these products are dismantled and what materials are acquired after dismantling. In the coming issues, we will introduce these information for everyone.

Solar Hot Water System In previous issues of newsletter, various green features of EcoPark were introduced. Let us introduce the solar hot water system in this issue. Solar hot water systems harness the heat in solar radiation to produce hot water. Domestic solar hot water system usually comprises of solar collectors and a water tank. The solar collectors absorb the heat in solar radiation to heat up water, either directly or indirectly. The hot water so produced is stored in the storage tank for subsequent use. An alternative arrangement is to use a packaged type solar water heater, with solar collectors and an insulated storage tank packaged together in one integrated unit. Usually a solar hot water system is designed to fulfill a major part of the hot water requirements of the premise, with the rest being made up by electric heating (or gas heating).

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