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From April 22, Hong Kong’s “Plastic Free” Ordinance will come into effect. Since the paper and wooden tableware and lunch boxes currently used in the market are far less effective than plastic products, a large number of citizens have complained. (See China Synthesis)
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[Watch China, April 23, 2024](Watch China reporter Li Huaiju’s comprehensive report) Starting from April 22, Hong Kong’s first phase of “controlling disposable plastic tableware and other plastic products”, that is, the “Plastic Free” Ordinance will come into effect. . Regardless of dine-in or takeout, restaurants are completely prohibited from using styrofoam boxes, styrofoam cups, plastic drinking tubes, plastic knives and forks, and other tableware. Plastic cups, bowls, and lunch boxes that do not have mature substitutes can continue to be used for takeout. . Since the paper and wooden tableware and lunch boxes currently used in the market are far less effective than plastic products, a large number of citizens have complained. Some people lament that it is more convenient to eat with your hands.
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The 22nd is the first day of the “Plastic Free” campaign. All restaurants in Hong Kong officially use paper or wooden tableware to replace the original plastic tableware and styrofoam boxes. Hong Kong citizens uploaded photos to the discussion forum to share the “miserable conditions” of using environmentally friendly tableware: for example, paper spoons softened and deformed as soon as the soup reached the soup, making them unusable. The wooden soup soup bowl turned out to be flat and I couldn’t drink the soup at all. Or the prongs of the paper fork are broken, or the handle of the wooden fork is broken. I used a paper lunch box to buy takeout, and when I got home, the lid of the box was soaked in vegetable juice, and the vegetable juice flowed all over the bag. I was so angry that I couldn’t think of eating!

Some netizens shared a video on social platforms, saying that they spent HK$30 to buy a box of glutinous rice chicken, but they didn’t know that the paper soup was too soft and completely useless. I see a meal in front of me, but I can’t eat it.

Some people commented that the environmentally friendly lunch boxes and tableware produced for the so-called “environmental protection” are basically garbage, and consumers have to pay the bill. Millions of citizens have automatically become members of the “Concern Group for Adding Money to Buy Tableware and Adding Money to Buy Discomfort”. I really don’t know if the Hong Kong government is really environmentally friendly or if it just wants to kill everyone.

Someone left a message suggesting that it would be more environmentally friendly for everyone to become Indian citizens and eat with their hands. Internet singer and KOL Qingtian Lin also made a special video to show off his joy, using his fingers as chopsticks to pick up rice noodles. However, the functions of the fingers are also limited, and they cannot pinch hot noodles. There are also hygiene issues, so just play with them and forget about it.

Some netizens also suggested that everyone bring their own stainless steel cutlery, chopsticks, drinking straws and other tableware, and everything will be fine. But a new question arises: Do I need to bring my own dishwashing liquid? Can restaurants or governments provide a place to wash dishes? If it’s so troublesome, it’s better to bring your own lunch box or eat at home.

In fact, it’s not that Hong Kong people don’t support environmental protection. The Hong Kong government has set up “three-color bins” at recycling stations on streets and in various districts across Hong Kong. They are often filled with items that citizens actively sort and recycle. But even this “three-color box” has not been properly handled by the Hong Kong government. In December last year, Ta Kung Pao, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong, published an article criticizing it, saying that it sent reporters to Kwun Tong Promenade Park for several days and found that cleaning workers in the park had removed waste paper, aluminum cans, and Plastic bottles and glass bottles are put into large black garbage bags and transported away by garbage trucks.

The article lamented that the items that citizens specially sorted for recycling were sent to the landfill together with other non-recyclable garbage “by different routes”! Moreover, the problem of “three-color bins” not functioning properly occurs not only in parks, piers and other places, but also in housing estate recycling bins that are not being recycled.

A reporter from “Ta Kung Pao” visited Caiyun Village and found that two groups of “three-color bins” were full, but no one was seen sorting and cleaning them. The reporter visited Shuntian Village, Shun’an Village and Shunli Village again and found that the recycling bins were full but no one was cleaning the recyclables.

Some Hong Kong citizens lamented that this government has done everything in vain. The worse the ability, the higher the salary!

Source: Look at China

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