Shan Shan Chung

TL;DR: Evaluating the consequence of changing and using agricultural soils to other purposes in Hong Kong with respect to risk to human health established concentrations of the following priority elements: As, Cu, Cd, Cr, Pb and Zn in terms of total burden and metal bioaccessibility.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors set out clearly defined criteria for evaluating sustainability in solid waste management and have them illustrated by a modern Chinese city (Hong Kong) and have shown that the management of construction and demolition waste, clinical waste and chemical waste has failed in almost all the sustainability criteria.

TL;DR: This study shows that there is overwhelming support for source separation of waste in Mainland China, whether it is in rural or urban communities, and that most people are already undertaking source separation due to the redemption value of the recyclables.

TL;DR: It was found that waste administrators in these cities are not professionally competent in their jobs and they are also not confident in using economic instruments to address waste management issues in their cities.

TL;DR: It was estimated that on average no more than 80,443 tones (11.5 kg/capita) of waste is generated from non-plasma and non-liquid crystal display televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, air-conditioners and personal computers each year by Hong Kong households each year, despite a producer responsibility scheme (PRS) not being in place.