Food waste is not just an environmental issue, it is also a social one.
We have to ask whether a food waste recycling scheme will be enough to tackle the root of the problem.
Although recycling is a better option than disposal at one of Hong Kong's landfill sites, it still does not address the problem.
It is because of citizens' lack of awareness that huge volumes of food waste are generated.
Rather than just promoting recycling or imposing a waste charge, people have to change their attitudes. They have to recognise the disadvantages of excessive consumerism and realise food is something that should be valued and waste avoided.
Leung Kit-yan, Diamond Hill
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problem: food waste, food disposal
casues: excessive consumerism, lack of awareness
solution: food recycling scheme, education
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