9
Special topics
9.1
Restaurants and food courts
• Avoid use of materials and products that will emit harmful air contaminants:
- Avoid use of toilet deodourisers containing a fragrance whose source may be a
which is harmful to health.
- Avoid cleaning products that are not environmentally friendly.
• Install CO
2
sensors to monitor concentrations of CO
2
in dining areas.
• Install CO
2
sensors to monitor concentrations of CO
2
in kitchen areas and to detect CO
2
from CO
2
cylinders used in
making carbonated drinks.
• Install air sterilisation systems to control the level of bio-contaminants.
• Use of
electronic air filtration to treat kitchen exhaust.
Recycling of cooking oil in restaurants
Convert waste cooking oil to biodiesel
Instead of using it once only, technology is now available to recycle cooking oil in restaurants.
Here is the process:
Cooking oil recycling
Figure 165 Recycle of cooking oil (Source: Kai Shing Management Services Limited)
Source: Kai Shing Management Services Limited
1. Cooking waste oil re-collected in tank
2. Oil retreatment in plants
3. Bottles of biodiesel
9.1.6 Greenery
Apart from visual enhancement, provision of indoor plants in restaurants and
food courts will help improve the
More details are discussed in
.
Figure 166 Interior green wall,
Olympian City, West Kowloon
(Source: Sino Group)
Hong Kong Green Building Council 185
