4.5.1 Recycled content
Recycling is a key component of the “reduce, reuse, recycle” waste management concept. Used content (waste)
in shopping malls can be recycled into new products.
Recycling programmes
EcoPark, Tuen Mun
Figure 98 EcoPark in Tuen Mun
(Source: Environmental Protection
Department)
Figure 99 EcoPark official web site
(Source: Environmental Protection Department)
Getting materials and equipment that contain recycled content at EcoPark in Tuen Mun
EcoPark is a new component in the Hong Kong SAR Government’s strategy on waste management.
It provides a tenant directory on its website with contact information for parties organising local materials
recovery and recycling programmes. Shopping mall developers, shop owners and shop tenants can use
the directory to search for suitable companies for materials and equipment that contain recycled content.
As a part of the recycling programmes, many tenants in EcoPark also provide services of collecting
used materials. More details will be specifically discussed in
.
Read more at:
EcoPark tenant directory
The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Environmental Protection Department.
(2013). EcoPark. Tenant directory. Retrieved 8 April 2013,
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