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Hong Kong Housing Society Annual Report 2016
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Social Responsibilities
社會責任
For our rental estates, we signed the Food Wise Charter as part of our
pledge in 2012 to help reduce food waste in the community. Since
then, we have undertaken a number of food waste reduction initiatives.
Over the past two years at Kwun Tong Garden Estate and Kwun Lung
Lau, we have carried out the Food-waste Recycling and Community
Farming Programme as a means of promoting recycling among the
residents of our rental estates and helping to relieve the pressure on
Hong Kong’s diminishing landfill sites. Since the start of this
programme, a total of 14,113 kg of food waste has been collected and
6,282 kg of compost supplied to the estates’ nurseries.
We continued to promote the ‘waste reduction’ message by regularly
collecting excess food from the residents during holidays such as
the Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year, and donating it to
St James’ Settlement People’s Food Bank.
To encourage daily waste-reduction habits among our residents, we
provided facilities for recycling a wide range of materials, including
garments, computers, electrical appliances, glass and even wood from
cherry trees and seasonal plants.
Inculcating the virtues of treasuring food
and reducing waste to the youngsters
向新一代灌輸惜食減廚餘的概念
在出租屋邨方面，房協於二零一二年簽訂
「惜食約章」，承諾協助減少社區廚餘。
自此，我們亦採取了多項減少廚餘的措施。
過去兩年，房協於觀塘花園大廈及觀龍樓
推行「廚餘回收再造及社區耕作」活動，
向屋邨居民宣傳循環再造的信息，協助
紓緩本港日益飽和的堆填區。自計劃開展
以來，合共收集了
14,113
公斤廚餘，並為
屋邨苗圃供應了
6,282
公斤肥料。
房協藉著中秋節及農曆新年等節日，定期
向居民收集過剩的食物，再轉贈聖雅各福
群會「眾膳坊」，推廣減廢的信息。
為鼓勵居民培養減廢的習慣，房協放置設
施 回 收 各 種 物 資， 包 括 衣 物、 電 腦、
電器、玻璃，甚至桃花及節慶植物。