Hong Kong wastes away as rival Asian cities clean up

Hong Kong

FROM syringes and television sets strewn on its beaches to brimming landfills, Hong Kong is struggling to keep pace with a growing waste problem in one of the world's most densely populated cities.

Landfills in the global financial hub of seven million people are nearly full as the volume of waste rises for a fifth straight year and recycling lags behind other Asian cities.

Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei each generate about half of Hong Kong's was…