The Environmental Protection Department (EPD)’s “Plastic Recyclable Materials Recovery Service Pilot Scheme” (the Pilot Scheme) will end on January 18 this year. The EPD today (January 9) announced the latest arrangements for collection and recycling of waste plastics. A spokesman for the EPD said: “There is overlap in resources between the pilot scheme and the ‘District Green’ in recycling plastics. It has been decided to terminate the pilot scheme on January 18 this year, and the relevant plastic recycling services will be taken over by the ‘District Green’ community recycling networks in the relevant districts.” The spokesman said: “In addition to reducing overlapping work, in the future, ‘District Green’ operating groups can hand over the collected plastics to any recyclers approved by the EPD in the market for processing, rather than just the three recyclers designated by the pilot scheme in the past.
