Cleanup Diary: 5 November 2014
Student reporters investigate the 42-day cleanup Young reporters from Bradbury School came to clean Yung Shue Wan beach and ask questions about the 42-day cleanup in autumn 2014.
Read More »Student reporters investigate the 42-day cleanup Young reporters from Bradbury School came to clean Yung Shue Wan beach and ask questions about the 42-day cleanup in autumn 2014.
Read More »For 42 days in 2014 Living Lamma and numerous volunteers spent a few hours each day picking up rubbish, trash, garbage and all kinds of waste from Yung Shue Wan harbourfront, to restore some of the beauty of this “bay of banyan trees” 21 September – 2 November 2014 North Lamma Community Effort […]
Read More »Cleanup of Yung Shue Wan with Banyan House Bringing kids to the beach should not be all about rubbish, but equally, we cannot bring them up to ignore the problem. When I started cleaning the beach at Yung Shue Wan, I could hear mothers walking past with their kids telling them it was too dirty […]
Read More »Cleanup at Pak Kok in support of Hong Kong Cleanup. Each time I organise a cleanup, I put up notices, but I’m never quite sure how many people will come. On the way to Pak Kok Beach that morning, I felt a sense of hopelessness. I was on my own and there was an awful […]
Read More »Each year the summer tide brings rubbish from the Pearl River Delta to the southern and western shores of Lamma Island. During the winter tide, the rubbish comes directly from Hong Kong Island to hit the northern and western shores. This does not mean that the beaches are ever spared from incoming trash and, as well as […]
Read More »ERM Study Trip to Lamma Wednesday 11th June 2014 Dear Ronald, To get the most out of your trip, we’d like you see what residents and visitors see. We have, therefore, prepared some questions for you to contemplate on your way over. How many items are sold in glass bottles at the ferry pier? What […]
Read More »Letter to Legco Panel on Environmental Affairs (trees) May 2014 Dear Legco Members: I have attached our report on trees from October 2012. We have been communicating with various different departments on this since 2010, but just see buck-passing and little change to address the problems raised in the paper. The 2012 version was updated […]
Read More »A small group of Lamma residents and government employees came out to clean up the beach at Pak Kok, Lamma Island. Among the usual plastic and other rubbish, we made a grim discovery: a dead egret surrounded by plastic debris and with plastic in its belly.
Read More »OBJECTION to the ‘Planning and Engineering Study on Future Land Use at Ex-Lamma Quarry Area at Sok Kwu Wan, Lamma Island – Feasibility Study’ LETTER Hong Kong Island & Islands Development Office, Civil Engineering & Development Department, 13/F North Point Government Offices, 333, Java Road, North Point Hong Kong 21st March 2014 To whom it may […]
Read More »Cleanup at Pak Kok beach, Lamma Island with Sear Rogers International School (SRIS). The kids are great, but really they should not have to witness this rubbish! Before the cleanup, the kids were briefed on the outcome of the Brand on the Beach cleanups and asked to find ways to reduce their plastic consumption. When […]
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