I understand from the government's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department homepage that there are only two sets of "Yellow, Brown & Blue" collection bins in Yung Shue Wan area. The nearest set from my place in Tai Peng is at the Yung Shue Long refuse collection point. Each week I have to take three bags of my recyclable household refuse and walk 15 minutes down hill to the collection bins. It is not a good experience at all.

And how can we expect people from Sa Po or Tai Wan to do the same if the nearest recycle bins are at Yung Shue Long and outside the public library near the ferry pier?

In my old place in N.T., the four-block apartment building already got one set of recycle bins and an additional blue bin for the large volumn of recyclable paper.

Is it possible to fight for more recycle bins in Lamma? I think at least Po Wah Yuen and Tai Peng need one set each. While we are so proud of the green environment in Lamma, we need adequate provisions to be environmental friendly.

I'd like to see at least a paper bin in Tai Peng, bottles and cans aren't that heavy, but dragging all those newspapers down the hill is no fun.

There's more than two sets in YSW, at least four, not counting the big ones at the pier.

One at the wall below the hotel, another set near the clinic. Not much help to you in Tai Peng, but there is a set in Tai Wan, appeared a few months ago with no fanfare. There is another set at Hung Shing Yeh beach. Back a couple of years ago to be green you had to lug your recyclables to Central, so it's a big improvement. For cans you can just stack them next to the ordicary bins, someone will collect them to sell pretty quickly.

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i like to leave my aluminium cans with Granny Yau-Giu who has a small hut in Wang Long. its her living.

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I've always wondered if they can REALLY make a living from alu cans?
How much can they get for a hundred cans or per catty?

If it's really somebody's living and worthwhile, I wouldn't mind giving her our cans as well. Lots of Diet Lemon Coke cans during these hot days...

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i guess so. collecting alum cans seemed to be her only way to make a living. and yes, all my diet lemon cokes cans...

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u can read a little bit more about granny yau-giu and her cans:

http://www.oxfam.org.hk/english/myfavou ... ory-16.htm

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e,
That's a really nice story from Oxfam!
You just made a last-minute story/link contribution to the e-zine, out today!

Let's see if we can start a little can collection via the e-zine!
The story mentions 14 cents per can, but it might be old?
I'm starting to save up the ones in our household right now....
It's the thought that counts...

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