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Plastic Resources Education – 3Rs & 3Cs

Programme Launch Ceremony
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Ms Thadani said she looked forward to the programme’s impact.
The Centre for Education in Environmental “Environmental education should start at a young age, for it is
Sustainability (CEES) at the Education University crucial for people to adopt a sustainable lifestyle from an early
of Hong Kong (EdUHK) has launched a 2-year stage in their lives. Children are our key to a sustainable future.
programme: Plastic Resources Education – 3Rs This programme is significant, for it will provide tools to teachers
& 3Cs to promote plastic resource education to amplify this message to students in primary schools across
and plastic waste recycling in 40 local primary Hong Kong.”
schools. Sponsored by the Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC),
the programme will last for two years, from
August 2016 to July 2018.

Speaking at the launch ceremony held on 29 September 2016
on the Tai Po Campus, the two supervisors of the Programme -
Professor Winnie So Wing-mui, Director of CEES, and Dr Stephen
Chow Cheuk-fai, Associate Professor of the Department of Science
and Environmental Studies - said they hoped that the programme
would educate students about plastic management, and nurture
their attitude and behaviour towards environmental sustainability
to alleviate the environmental and social problems brought about
by the huge local plastic waste load.

Local solid waste generation has increased rapidly in recent
From the left:
decades, and plastic waste makes up around 20% of this growing Dr Stephen Chow Cheuk-fai, Associate Professor of the Department of Science and
Environmental Studies at EdUHK;
problem. The overuse of plastics is expected to cause severe
Professor John Lee Chi-kin, EdUHK Vice President (Academics);
damage to the environment in the long term. Ms Malini Thadani, Head of Corporate Sustainability, Asia Pacific at HSBC;
Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung, EdUHK President; and
Officiating at the launch ceremony were Professor Stephen Cheung Professor Winnie So Wing-mui, Director of CEES at EdUHK.
Yan-leung, EdUHK President; Professor John Lee Chi-kin, EdUHK
Vice President (Academics); Professor So and Dr Chow; and Ms
Malini Thadani, Head of Corporate Sustainability, Asia Pacific at
HSBC.

Professor Cheung showed his gratitude for HSBC’s support and
said that “with the collaboration and contribution of the school
principals and teachers, EdUHK students, parents associations
and volunteers from HSBC, we have every confidence that the
Professor Winnie So Wing-mui, Director of Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung,
programme will have a positive and beneficial impact on the CEES, hopes the programme will educate EdUHK President, believes the programme
students about plastic management, and will have a positive impact on the development
development of environmental sustainability in Hong Kong”.
nurture their attitude and behaviour of environmental sustainability in Hong
towards environmental sustainability. Kong.

Ms Malini Thadani, Head of Corporate
Sustainability, Asia Pacific at HSBC, says
the programme is significant, for it will
provide tools to teachers to amplify this
message to students in primary schools
An international conference on synergy between science and social development in
across Hong Kong.
solid waste management follows the launch ceremony.
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