Climate Change: Solid Waste
We have covered different facets of climate change in the past few months, and now come to the final issue of this series -- Solid Waste. The COVID-19 has given rise to an unprecedented surge of food delivery/take-away orders. What comes along is an unprecedented consumption of individually wrapped, one-off plastic tableware. In the name of hygiene under the pandemic, all seems justified. However, disposable tableware only accounts for a small tip of the global waste issue. Waste is a twin to climate change. How is it so? Let's have a look.
GREEN Hospitality Online Conference 2020 | Topic 2: The Plastic Problem
Speaker: Christelle Not, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
GREEN Hospitality Online Conference 2020 | Topic 1: Food Waste
Speaker: Heidi Spurrell, CEO of Food Made Good HK
Environment and Health：Consumption Climate Change
Publisher: RTHK
Next, let's have a listen to Hong Kong's current waste management and treatment approach, and compare it with the global movement.
GREEN Hospitality Online Conference 2020 | Topic 3: Waste Management and Treatment
Speaker: Shirley Yuen, Senior Environmental Protection Officer, Environmental Protection Department, HKSARG
Zero Waste Circular Economy: A Systemic Game-Changer to Climate Change?
Speaker: Mariel Vilella, Director of Global Strategy, Zero Waste Europe/Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
Once again, other than careful site search for landfills or waste processing facilities, what can you and I do? Let’s look at what each of us, and the private sector, can do to alleviate the solid waste issue.
What YOU can do about climate change
Publisher: Our Changing Climate
GREEN Hospitality Online Conference 2020 | Panel 2: The Plastic Problem
Speakers: Iris Lam, Director of Food and Beverage - Design and Sustainable Development, Mandarin Oriental, et al.
GREEN Hospitality Online Conference 2020 | Panel 1: Food, Waste and Climate Change
Speakers: Meredith Beaujean, Executive Director of Sustainability, Sands China (Macau), et al.
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