I was honor to be invited HKQAA to participant the Food
Waste Recycling Registration Scheme Ceremony cum Sharing Seminar on 8th
Jun 2018. In line with EPD strategy for
food waste, HKQAA took the lead to launch the HKQAA Hong Kong Registration –
Food Waste Recycling to provide third-party conformity assessments for Food
Waste Companion, Food Waste Collector and Recycler since 2017. Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP)
and Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) are supporting organizations. Before
the Ceremony, Mr. Ronald, YF Lau (Chairman, Hong Kong Food Hygiene
Administrators Association; Honorary President, Hong Kong Food Council) and I
took a photo for memory.
Ms. Brenda Ling, Mr. Adams
Wong and I took a photo in front of the banner too.
A group photo of guests were
taken.
In the beginning, Dr. Lo
Wai Kwok (Chairman, HKQAA) gave a welcome speech. He said one of WHO Sustainable Development Goals
in 2030 was “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture”. Therefore, reducing food waste was aligned
with that goal. He said the development
of HKQAA
Hong Kong Registration – Food Waste Recycling was supported by Recycling Fund
under EPD. All registered Companions,
Food Waste Collectors and Recyclers would post into the
website for public searching.
Mr. Tse Chin-wan (Under
Secretary for the Environment, HKSAR) was the guest speaker and he said human
challenge was lack of food in the history.
But we had more than 3000 ton food waste per day that was the challenge
for us. Landfill is not the solution for
handling food waste because of used land and generated greenhouse gas. Therefore, reducing food waste should start
from the source. However, collecting
food waste was not an easy job. So that EPD promoted “Food Wise Hong Kong” (惜食約章) to save food and reduce food waste.
Mr. Jimmy Kwok (Chairperson, Advisory Committee on Recycling
Fund) gave guest speech. He said that
30% of landfill solid waste was food waste.
He briefed the aims of Recycling Fund were to assist different collecting
projects to reduce waste in Hong Kong and decrease the pressure on
landfill. HKQAA Hong
Kong Registration – Food Waste Recycling scheme worked as leader role to lead
industry together and making better and greener Hong Kong.
After that the presentation
of certificate for Companions, Food Waste Collectors and Food Waste
Recyclers performed and then group photo was taken.
And then Ms. Meico Cheong (Business Manager, HKQAA)presented the topic named “HKQAA Hong Kong Registration – Food Waste Recycling”. Firstly, she briefed the history of Recycle Funding since 2013. There were two types of funding named “enterprise Support Programme” for recycle industry and “Industry Support Program” for NGO. Recycling Fund aims to promote the recovery and recycling of waste by facilitating the upgrading of the operational capabilities and efficiency of the recycling industry for sustainable development
Ms. Meico Cheong then mentioned
that there were 20 Companions, 8 Food waste collectors and 7 Food waste
recyclers in the HKQAA Hong Kong Registration – Food Waste Recycling Scheme.
The description of Companions, Food waste collector and Food waste recycler was
showed in the following diagram.
Finally, Ms. Meico Cheong
showed the certificates on each type of registration and also reviewed the
overall performance of pilot test. Companions
were Organizations participating in food waste collection and source
separation, such as: Restaurants, Food manufacturing factories or processing
plants, Food retailers, supermarkets, food markets, Property management
companies, Facility management companies. Their overall performance on standard, daily operation,
environmental and record management were good.
It was suggested that to consider avoiding too many food to be ordered
and consider to give discount or free for due date food to reduce food waste
generation.
Food Waste Collector means Organizations
participating in transporting food waste from source to recycling plant, such
as: Collection, Separation, Transportation and Storage. Food Waste Recycler means Organizations
participating in recycling food waste to raw materials, semi-finished products
or finished products. Lastly, Ms. Meico
Cheong shared the suggestions items as follows:
-
Food waster
collector and recycler could feedback the quality of food waste to companions.
-
If contamination
of food waste increase, provide enough training for frontline staff was needed.
-
In order to
avoid food waste entered into landfill, it could increase manpower for handling
and classification of food waste.
-
If food waste
collect box broken, it also needed to be recycled. 
The second speaker was Mr.
James Yeung (Cordis) and his topic named “Food Waste Management at Cordis, Hong
Kong”. He said that food waste occupies
more than one third of the multiple solid waste. He would focus on Environmental Impact, Cost
Issue and Life Cycle to consider this problem.
Mr. James Yeung considered
food waste reduction program and join the scheme because he forecasted the impact
of municipal solid waste charging that would be launched in 2019.
After that Mr. James Yeung
briefed their 5 steps for recycle the food waste below:
i)
Define
recyclable food waste
ii)
Preparation for
food waste collection
iii)
Training
relevant staffs
iv)
Monitoring on
their daily practice
v)
Continuous
improvementHe showed some unrecyclable food waste which should avoid mixing into the recyclable one.
Different staff provided
different training.
Different food waste bin
provided that no. 1 for food waste recycling and no. 2 for general waste, as
well as, no. 3 for shop/liquid.
The last speaker was Mr. Joseph
Yeung (WayLung Waste Service Limited) and his presentation named “Food Waste
Collection Experience Sharing”. Firstly,
he showed good and bad quality of food waste to us. Some bad example usually met the difficulties
on source separation. The problems were
come from insufficient space for source separation and for collection bin
storage.
Mr. Yeung suggested some
solutions such as different size bins for food waste collection and trucks to
fit for the environment.
He introduced different types
of truck for collecting. The first one
(Green at left upper corner) named Side Loader which was shielded but
collecting from the top. The second one (Blue at right lower corner) named Tailgate
Tuck which was more common truck. The third
one (Blue at right upper corner) called REL and fourth one (White / Blue at
left lower corner) called Skip Loader that had mechanical part to push food
waste that would cause lacking and smell problem.
Lastly, Dr. Michael Lam (CEO,
HKQAA) gave closing remark. He said that
food waste for landfill was not aligned with sustainability principles. He shared that a circular economic conference
in Finland in 2017 that circular economic and sustainability development were
the mega trend. We needed to promote source
classification of food waste and work together with all stakeholders to create sustainable
future.
Reference:
HKQAA Hong Kong Registration – Food Waste Recycling - http://www.hkqaa.org/en_regservice.php?catid=16
Recycling Fund - http://www.recyclingfund.hk/en/index.php
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