Why doesn't Hong Kong have a glass recycling program?

The city just doesn't make it worthwhile to recycle and this is creating a pressing issue - Hong Kong's propensity for generating more trash is matched by the ... read more

Hong Kong's government does not officially support glass recycling, but it does subsidize private providers (Green Glass) to do some collection. There are a lot of concerns on collection points being unsafe, but mostly it's because there simply it simply isn't cost-effective to implement it. read more

But the real reason why Hong Kong doesn’t care about recycling the 353 tonnes of glass it produces each day is a financial issue (as it normally tends to be in Hong Kong): the value of glass simply isn’t high enough. read more