Green Outreach
Overview
To strengthen the publicity and education as well as on-site support for waste reduction and clean recycling at community level, the EPD set up the Green Outreach to provide outreaching services at the territory. Through on-site guidance and hands-on demonstrations, the Green Outreach regularly educates the public about the importance of waste reduction at source, encourages and facilitates the pubic to practice source separation of waste and clean recycling, promotes and plans the GREEN@COMMUNITY services, disseminates the latest information on waste management and also assists public rental housing, housing estates and residential buildings that have participated in the "Programme on Source Separation of Waste" to improve their recycling practices, as well as to arrange trainings for property management staff and frontline cleansing workers on proper handling of recyclables. In addition, the Green Outreach also conducts promotional and educational activities on waste reduction and clean recycling in the community, in order to encourage the public to incorporate source separation of waste and clean recycling in their daily lives.
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GO Services
GO will contact residential estates/ buildings in all 18 districts of Hong Kong, understand their recycling arrangement, assist them to solve practical problems such as finding suitable outlets for recyclables. GO will also collaborate with Recycling Stations and Recycling Stores in districts to promote the services of community recycling network and to conduct public education on waste separation at source and clean recycling.