{"id":291570,"date":"2021-08-30T03:44:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T03:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/?p=53760"},"modified":"2021-08-30T03:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T03:44:37","slug":"hong-kong-lawmakers-pass-waste-charging-scheme-after-years-of-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/30\/hong-kong-lawmakers-pass-waste-charging-scheme-after-years-of-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Lawmakers Pass Waste-Charging Scheme After Years of Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hong-Kong-Lawmakers-Pass-Waste-Charging-Scheme-After-Years-of-Delay.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/3z6mv8219w2s2w196j1dkzga-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hong-Kong-Lawmakers-Pass-Waste-Charging-Scheme-After-Years-of-Delay.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/3z6mv8219w2s2w196j1dkzga-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hong-Kong-Lawmakers-Pass-Waste-Charging-Scheme-After-Years-of-Delay-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/3z6mv8219w2s2w196j1dkzga-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hong-Kong-Lawmakers-Pass-Waste-Charging-Scheme-After-Years-of-Delay-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">Mins Read<\/span><\/span> Hong Kong will finally see a waste-charging scheme come into force, after years of campaigning by the city\u2019s green groups and delays by lawmakers. On Thursday (August 26), the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) approved the new bill, which will require residents to pay for their rubbish\u2014a move aimed at encouraging recycling and waste [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/hong-kong-waste-charging-scheme\/\">Hong Kong Lawmakers Pass Waste-Charging Scheme After Years of Delay<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/\">Green Queen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/hong-kong-waste-charging-scheme\/\">Green Queen<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 4 Mins Read Hong Kong will finally see a waste-charging scheme come into force, after years of campaigning by the city\u2019s green groups and delays by lawmakers. On Thursday (August 26), the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) approved the new bill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,651,7583,5904],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291571,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291570\/revisions\/291571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}