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Press
Releases - 2000
Demonstration
scheme to promote waste minimisation
The Environmental
Protection Department (EPD) today (December 31) launched the
Demonstration Scheme (DEMOS) under the Environment and Conservation
Fund and Woo Wheelock Green Fund (the Fund).
A spokesman
for the EPD said the DEMOS was one of the waste management
tools proposed under the Prevention of Waste Programme in
the Waste Reduction Framework Plan.
"The
purposes of the scheme are to promote waste minimisation and
recycling technologies and to encourage the adoption of these
technologies by different sectors in Hong Kong," the spokesman
said.
"The
EPD will publicise and demonstrate successful DEMOS projects
so as to disseminate the results of the completed projects
and to ensure widespread adoption of the technologies by relevant
sectors," he added.
With
the support of the Environment and Conservation Fund Committee
(ECFC), the spokesman said the DEMOS was now accepted as a
new type of project eligible for applying the Fund.
"Previously,
the Fund only considered applications from local non-profit
making organisations or groups formed under registered local
non-profit making bodies," he said.
"Locally
incorporated companies, industry-support bodies, trade and
industry associations, tertiary institutions, professional
bodies, research institutes and green groups are welcome to
apply for the Fund under the DEMOS.
"Collaboration
in the DEMOS projects by local non-profit making bodies and
private organisations is encouraged," the spokesman noted.
DEMOS
projects should be one of the following categories:
-
technological
innovation which could reduce waste effectively;
-
adoption
of methodologies and technologies which produce less waste;
-
adoption
of cost-saving technologies and equipment to promote waste
minimisation and recycling activities; and
-
research
that would lead to new and commercially viable and cost-saving
waste minimisation and recycling technologies applicable
to Hong Kong.
"It is
a requirement that the technologies selected under the DEMOS
should be practicable and can be used by the relevant sectors
in Hong Kong," the spokesman said.
Guidance
notes and application forms for funding are available at the
Environment and Conservation Fund Secretariat (ECFS) on the
10th floor, Citibank Tower, 3 Garden Road, Central.
They
can also be downloaded from the website of the Environmental
and Food Bureau at http://www.info.gov.hk/efb/board/index02.htm.
Completed
forms should be sent to the ECFS. Successful applicants are
required to comply with all conditions set out for using the
allocated fund.
For enquiries
on the scheme, please call the EPD at 2872 1720.
End/Sunday,
December 31, 2000
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