2019 Flower Market Fair
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The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) today (February 5) collected an estimated total of 258 tonnes of refuse at 15 Lunar New Year (LNY) Fair sites throughout Hong Kong. The figure represented a decrease of roughly 72 tonnes compared with the amount last year.
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About 82 tonnes of bamboo, 18 tonnes of wooden pallets, 28 tonnes of peach blossom trees, other wilted and unsold flowers as well as five tonnes of food waste were collected.
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Every year, people are happy to visit Flower market fair. However, after the the shutting down of the Flower Market, many rubbish will be left in the Victoria Park, which is the largest Flower Market site in Hong Kong. . There are many useful stuff left in the Flower Market waiting for Food and Hygiene Department to clean up. To promote the awareness of environmentally- friendly, there are different self-organized voluntary teams to collect some useful things. Those things will be concentrated in an area and welcome people to take it back home in order to reduce the amount of rubbish in the Flower Market Fair.
Although the collected rubbish has been reduced this year, citizens still lack of environmentally friendly awareness, not only the visitors, but also the holders of the booths. Rubbish will be left on the original area without proper disposal.
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Moreover, many peach blossom trees cannot be sold since the weather is warm in this-year Luner New Year. Therefore, some of these will be thrown in the Victoria Park. Some volunteers will collect it and donate to the elderly home for decoration or some needy.
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Social Video (Flower Market Fair)
Taking a top wide shot of Luner New Year Eve of the Victoria Park, people could hardly move in the sea of humanity, on Feburary 4, 2019.
Tse chun-hei, 20, who is the vender of this booth. He climbs and sits on the top of his New Year Fair stall, promoting a doll. He goes the whole hog to attract attention, on February 4, 2019.
A huge banner is thrown directly near the rubbish bin in the Victoria Park after the sales, at 4:04 am on Feburary 5, 2019.
This person who enter Victoria Park in the morning. He cannot help to look at the floor with many disposable tableware, on February 5, 2019.
The photo is taken near the largest food booth of the Flower Market Fair after it is shut down. Many leftover and disposable tableware are left on the ground waiting for disposal, on February 5, 2019.
The volunteers who wear green vest are from the an NGO MindYourWaste. They will collect some useful things in the booths and encourage people to take it back home. In this picture, they are going to set a temporary site for the collected stuff, 5 February, 2019.
A volunteer, who wears a pair of labour gloves, searchs around what is useful in a abandened stall, at 5:25 am on Feburary 5, 2019.
Some volunteers who are from MindYourWaste call on people to take whatever they think is important from what they have collected in the abandoned booths, February 5, 2019.
A volunteer introduces their voluntary work and call on people to take what they need in this site, February 5, 2019.
People take what they want after the shut down of the booths. A temperatory site, which is set up by MindYourWaste, is free for people to take what they need, at 5:30am on February 5, 2019.
In the morning, an elderly searches some useful things in an abandoned booth. In the back, there is a group of youngsters who are discussing after they packed their booth, 6:35 on February 5, 2019.
The green and orange one are managed by Leisure and Cultural Services Department and Food and Environmental Hygiene Department respectively.
These two rubbish bins are near Tin Hau Station. The rubbish bins are stuffed with disposable tableware and paper boxes, on February 5, 2019.