Green Outreach and Green Outreach Volunteer Programme

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Green Outreach

To strengthen the publicity and education on waste reduction and recycling and support for community recycling, the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) set up the Green Outreach in 2018 to educate and encourage the public to reduce waste at source and practise source separation of waste and clean recycling. Currently, the Green Outreach mainly focuses on territory-wide or district-based waste reduction and recycling publicity programmes, including “We-recycle@School” Activity and Programme on Source Separation of Waste. It makes use of various platforms such as social media and the Internet for publicity and promotion, collaborates with the GREEN@COMMUNITY operators, local groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), etc. for organising a variety of publicity activities; and strengthens collaborations with non-profit-making organisations to implement the Green Outreach Volunteer Programme for reaching out to the community groups of women, foreign domestic helpers, ethnic minorities, new immigrants, etc.

Green Outreach Volunteer Programme

The Green Outreach collaborates with non-profit organisations to implement the Green Outreach Volunteer Programme to reach out to more community groups, such as women, foreign domestic helpers, ethnic minorities, new immigrants, etc. to step up its efforts on education and encourage peoples of different backgrounds to practise waste separation at source and clean recycling.

“We-recycle@School” Activity

To further strengthen the publicity and education on waste reduction and recycling at school level, the EPD launched the “We-recycle@School” Activity on 1 March 2024, inviting participation of all primary and secondary schools across the territory. Through this programme, students are encouraged to actively practise resource separation and recycling together with their family members to cultivate habits of waste reduction and recycling in their daily lives. Please click here to learn more about the “We-recycle@School” Activity.

Multi-media promotion

The Green Outreach disseminates messages about waste reduction and recycling as well as GREEN@COMMUNITY services from time to time through the EPD’s mascot Big Waster on social media to enhance promotional efforts. The Green Outreach uses various media to present information in a lively manner, encouraging more people to integrate waste reduction and recycling into their daily lives.

Programme on Source Separation of Waste

The Green Outreach also provides support to housing estates/ buildings participating in the Programme on Source Separation of Waste, to facilitate members of the public to separate waste at source, increasing the quantity of recyclables collected and reducing the amount of waste disposed.

Please click here to learn more about the Programme on Source Separation of Domestic Waste.

Programme on Source Separation of Waste