Government-paid street sweepers have been caught emptying recycling bins and dumping their contents with general waste destined for landfills.
Video taken by the Sunday Morning Post revealed the illegal activity, which is torpedoing public recycling efforts and denying the government’s recycling contractor revenue from the sale of plastics, paper and metals for reprocessing.
In the footage, operatives in blue overalls and yellow highvisibility vests, employed on government cleaning contracts, open the doors of on-street recycling boxes and pull out the collection bins.
They then mix material for recycling with rubbish from general waste bins and dump the black bags with other rubbish bags on their trolleys.
They close the boxes and continue sweeping the streets.
Such activities have been caught on camera in Causeway Bay and Wan Chai and appear to have increased in recent weeks.
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