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Plastic paradise: HK's packaging problem
Over 2,000 tonnes of the material is thrown out daily, clogging up country parks and coastal areas
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Tue, Feb 2, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Hong Kong
A LITTLE girl shrieks with excitement as she strolls along the beach: "Oh look mummy. Hong Kong snow." Despite the cold snap, what she's pointing to is not a meteorological anomaly - but in fact swathes of polystyrene thrown out as rubbish.
The city is suffocating under a film of plastic: "Each day the equivalent weight of two A380 Airbus planes is discarded" in domestic waste, says Lisa Christensen, co-founder of HK Clean Up initiative.
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