Solutions to the Imminent Land Pollution Problems in Hong Kong

Today, an average of 25,000 tons of solid waste is processed daily, due to Hong Kong resident, commercial activities and human activities at manufacturing and construction sites. This indicates that land contamination is going to happen in Hong Kong. In order to solve this problem, I found three solutions. The three solutions are to increase the number of trash cans, to expand the landfill, and to increase incinerators. The best policy for land contamination is to build more incinerators.

Landfill in Hong Kong is scarce, so landfilling is one solution to this problem. The northern part of Hong Kong Island and the western part of Kowloon were collected. In the past, these were public goodwill working areas (PCWA) for cargo handling. Since PCWA has been reduced, buoy and fixing are far from PCWA, efficiency of midstream work will be worse. Container terminal is hardly affected by this problem. The Maritime Bureau repaired 53 port berths for midstream operations. There are two kinds of mooring facilities. The length of one boat is 183 meters, the length of a boat in B class is 137 meters. These magnitude limitations become obstacles to larger vessels. The amount of cargo handled can not be increased so much. Compared to the container terminal, you can load larger cargoes on larger ships.

Hong Kong is located in the tropical region of the south coast of China and extends to the South China Sea, its area is 1,97 square kilometers and consists of 250 islands. Warren-Rhodes & Koenig, 2001). This terrain is a mountainous area, it is rugged and the place of residence is limited so that the population of Hong Kong can be developed in a limited existing landfill site (Warren-Rhodes and Koenig, 2001). Hong Kong City is one of the most densely populated cities on Earth (Newcombe, Kalma, & Aston, 1978). In the past 150 years, Hong Kong has developed into a lively big city with a population of 7 million people (Warren-Rhodes and Koenig, 2001).