Hong Kong’s pay-as-you-throw waste tax would require residents’ “support and cooperation” and could take years to be widely upheld, environmental chief Tse Chin-wan has said. In an op-ed published by Ming Pao on Monday, the secretary for environment and ecology said the new waste charging scheme was “easy to comply with, civilised and hygienic.” The scheme, which will come into effect on April 1, will require Hongkongers to buy specific plastic bags for waste disposal with an aim to reduce how much is thrown away by each household. “The waste charging scheme is not a theory, but an empirically…
