More Hongkongers worried about mainland's environmental woes
More Hongkongers today are anxious about the mainland's environmental problems and fret about landfill space in the city than 12 years ago, a survey shows.

More Hongkongers today are anxious about the mainland's environmental problems and fret about landfill space in the city than 12 years ago, a survey shows.

It said 36 per cent expressed concern that the city's landfills are approaching capacity, 11 percentage points more than in the 2001 survey.
"We have picked up a real rise in concern over the lack of landfill space and it is far higher in certain district council areas - the ones with landfills," said Professor Michael DeGolyer, a Baptist University academic and lead researcher on the project.
"It's definitely a not-in-my-backyard issue."
The survey was carried out before controversy erupted this summer when the government was forced to withdraw a request for the expansion of three landfill sites amid a public backlash.