Recycle - 20111116

This morning, I visited an enterprise which specialized in recycling.

The company was located in Fanling. It hided in the back-end corner of the industrial area. We had to spend some time to check it out. It was a 5-storey building. At the G/F, loads of cardboard, mixed up with those abandoned scrap paper, were piled up high to be further processed. A moment later, a young man F greeted us, and rendered the introduction of their business in the following hour.

The building was no short of CCTV. It was equipped in the collection point, to ensure safe transfer of waste to the shredding place, which was situated on the 2/F. The entrance of 2/F was password-protected. There was an air-conditioned room, where delegates of the contracting parties could monitor the whole shredding process. Waste was to be demolished by 3 machines. It could not only devour paper but also other funny stuff. We witnessed the nirvana of confiscated goods from the Custom. In addition to these 3 monsters, there were other novel machines. Like the one to devastate hardisk. The whole area was under camera-surveillance.

F then gave us a briefing on the 5/F. It was the office area of the company. Its decoration, which was nice and neat, was a great contrast to other floors. We learnt the company's business in the comfortable board room. It was listed, with the capacity to handle the whole logistics chain to convert waste to usable things. The company could recycle scrap paper to tissue, which was produced by their own factory in China. Other decomposed waste would be sold to respective recyclers. Nothing would be wasted.

In 2 years time, the company would be moved to Tseung Kwan O, with its business expanded. Hereafter, residents there would see more heavy vehicles commuting around.