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12 Feb, 2006--The Conservancy Association organised the first ever
tree planting activity on a restored landfill on Lantern Festival.
About 50 couples, together with their families and friends, planted
300 Hong Kong Hawthorn, also known as "harbingers of spring" in
Chinese.
According to the Statistics and Census Department, Hong Kong
imported HK$163,000,000 worth of cut flowers in 2005. In Hong Kong,
landfill is the final destination for all these flowers.
By choosing a restored landfill as the site for tree planting, we
hoped that the people in Hong Kong would be aware of how serious the
waste problem is.
Tseung Kwan O Stage I Landfill, where the activity was held, has an
area of 62 hectares. It is as large as 4.7 Victoria Park put
together. The landfill is just one of the 13 restored landfills,
with a total area of 288 hectares. The three operating strategic
landfills have a total area of 178 hectares. All the 16 landfills is
span an area of 27 Victoria Parks! The time ended to restore a
landfillis at least 30 years.
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