HONG KONG: A Hong Kong government rule that all school students and staff take daily COVID-19 tests will add massively to the city's plastic waste problem, environmental activists say, with some 20 million kits a month set to be dumped at bursting landfills.
"This is just the estimation for one day. So one can imagine the horrifying volume of waste due to the daily rapid test," he said, adding that the government should have advised residents to recycle paper items and the plastic bag, but instead encouraged them to throw everything in the garbage. Over the past year, Hong Kong has generated a colossal amount of disposable plastic waste from quarantine hotels and isolation facilities, which is not recycled due to fear of contamination.
The government said in an email response to Reuters that it was"reasonable to expect" a surge in disposable waste, such as masks, RATs and disposable plastic tableware. It encouraged a green lifestyle as"far as possible" while having regard for public hygiene.
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