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2 October, 2024
A customer browses second-hand items inside an Oxfam charity shop in London. This Christmas, more people than ever are buying “preloved” gifts from charity shops and online second-hand retailers. Photo: AFP
Fashion

Are second-hand gifts the new trend? UK charity shops do a brisk trade

This Christmas, a time of year often criticised for promoting consumerism, more Britons than ever before are buying ‘preloved’ gifts.

Asia travel

Hong Kong family holidays more likely to include grandparents

Hong Kong environmental issues

Food recycling surges at Hong Kong estates even without waste-charging scheme

Business of climate change

Hong Kong start-up develops AI-powered smart bin to tackle recycling

Green AI’s smart collection bin can sort waste into four categories – plastic bottles , aluminium cans, drinks cartons and general refuse.

Cola Lam, CEO of Green Al Technology, gives a demonstration of the smart sorting bin at the company’s offices at Hong Kong Science Park in Sha Tin. Photo: Edmond So
Tourism

From Notre Dame to Arc de Triomphe, a green facelift for Paris

Notre Dame reopens in Paris in December, and the city has plans to revitalise other monuments by integrating them with green space and trees.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong should do more to pressure producers of single-use plastics: Greenpeace

Group finds plastic made up 97 per cent of rubbish collected in two rivers, with packaging from major drinks brands among most prevalent.

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Xi Jinping

China to get first centrally run resource reuse and recycling enterprise

President Xi Jinping calls China Resources Recycling Group, to be set up in Tianjin, a major step towards building a ‘low-carbon economy’.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the new firm to “smoothen the utilisation chain of recycled resources”. Photo: Xinhua
Sustainability

Corsets made from airbags? Fashion designers upcycle car parts

Resourceful fashion designers make clothes and accessories using everything from wheels to seat belts, as carmakers focus on material reuse.

Family offices

Hong Kong tycoon Peter Lee looks for good karma in green investments

The Towngas chairman and devout Buddhist hopes to create a more sustainable future through his family office investments.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong firms to face warnings, fines for flouting plastics ban after grace period

Environment chief Tse Chin-wan says errant retailers will be issued warnings on-site and given 10 working days to comply.

Hong Kong introduced the first stage of the single-use plastics ban on April 22. Photo: Jelly Tse
Fashion

How Kojima, Japan, made a name for top-quality denim

Hand-dyed denim and vintage machines are used to make jeans that sell for up to US$1,400 a pair in town where even the roads are denim blue.

A seamstress at Momotaro Jeans makes jeans using a vintage sewing machine. Photo: AP
Hong Kong environmental issues

Green group records first sighting of rare dragonfly in Hong Kong during survey

Green Power discovers Asiatic blood tail, also known as Lathrecista asiatica, while conducting survey near Lantau Island’s Tung Chung River.

ESG investing

Hong Kong has strengths to aid sustainability goals in mainland China: survey

Hong Kong can provide intellectual support in terms of talent and guidance on capital flows, according to a research report on sustainability trends.

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Hong Kong environmental issues

Letters | Hong Kong can definitely stomach a robust food waste reduction strategy

Readers discuss how the government can encourage reduction of food waste, and steps residents can take to support such initiatives.

A resident uses a food waste bin at Lung Hang Estate in Sha Tin on May 24. Photo: Jelly Tse
Fashion

Reworked silver, suits and shirts on show at Copenhagen Fashion Week 2025

Copenhagen Fashion Week was packed with eco-conscious looks, from upcyclers giving new life to old pieces and designers sourcing deadstock fabric to a jeweller recycling metals.

A model walks the runway in the Skall Studio show at Copenhagen Fashion Week, which was packed with eco-conscious looks from Danish designers. Photo: James Cochrane
Asean

Opinion | China and Australia can team up to boost Asean’s energy transition

China’s EV supply-chain investments in the region come with environmental and social challenges – which sustainable miner Australia can help solve.

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Better Living

How interior design is embracing quiet luxury – and sustainability

Sustainability goals are leading homeowners to opt for decors that are quietly elegant and go beyond just being appealing to the eye

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Hong Kong housing

Inside Hong Kong’s hassle-free serviced apartments and co-living spaces

For new arrivals to the city, serviced apartments and co-living spaces such as those from Xin Management, Skyla and Weave take the stress out of setting up a home

Co-living spaces and serviced apartments, like Skyla’s Kennedy Town location, simplify the process of moving to Hong Kong by offering all the on-site mod cons you could want. Photos: Handout
Better Living

Smart home integration: how Samsung and LG are leading the pack with AI

AI and wireless technology are taking seamless integration and control of smart home platforms and mobile apps to the next level

Better Living

Building Hong Kong’s sustainable homes: greener, healthier and more liveable

Better access to sustainable materials for healthier homes has eased the task of turning existing buildings and living spaces greener

Sustainability

Macau has banned single-use plastics as it tackles its solid waste problem

After banning plastic cutlery last year, this year the city acted against imports of styrofoam trays, and plastic cups and plates, as it grapples with its mountain of solid waste

Earlier this year Macau took steps to eliminate the use of styrofoam boxes, plastic cups and plates, after last year banning disposable plastic cutlery, indicating the city’s appetite to address its solid waste issues. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong environmental issues

Editorial | Prepare well so Hong Kong can benefit from hydrogen advances

From local regulation and regional cooperation to more trials and financing, a clear road map is needed so Hong Kong can become a “showcase” on the hydrogen economy for the country.

Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan said the city should seize the opportunities arising from the hydrogen strategy. Photo: SCMP / Eugene Lee
Hong Kong environmental issues

Opinion | Hong Kong should stop agonising over waste charging and focus on recycling

To cut waste, recycling reforms are needed to centralise processes, stop outsourcing waste management and start making officials accountable.

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Hong Kong environmental issues

Explainer | Will hydrogen fuel Hong Kong’s drive towards net zero by 2050?

The Post examines whether new government strategy will make hydrogen a fuel of the future and help city reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Business of climate change

Towngas, French energy group to launch Hong Kong’s first green hydrogen project

The Hong Kong and China Gas Company (Towngas) has teamed up with the French water, waste and energy group Veolia to launch the city’s first green hydrogen project, which will convert biogas from a landfill site into a sustainable fuel.

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The projected daily production capacity of around 330kg of hydrogen will be enough to power seven or eight hydrogen buses for a full day. Photo: SCMP Handout
Hong Kong environmental issues

Opinion | Hong Kong, stop waiting for the perfect moment to launch waste charging

Every society that introduced waste charges faced difficulties. But sustainable waste management is critical and cannot be postponed indefinitely

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Residents at a waste collection spot at Sun Tsui Estate in Tai Wai on May 27. Hong Kong has once again delayed implementation of a waste-charging scheme. Photo: Eugene Lee
Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong waste recyclers ‘barely holding on’, industry veterans say

Mil Mill paper pulp factory founder Harold Yip says fresh postponement of waste-charging scheme a blow to industry.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong launches scheme recognising recycling efforts at private residences

Green groups have questioned the measure’s effectiveness amid the shelving of the controversial waste-charging scheme.

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