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As Hong Kong people cannot travel aboard freely under the COVID-19 epidemic, they switch to local hiking activities instead, crowding countryside hotspots and creating garbage mountains. In March last year, an environmental protection group and 16 volunteers went to Tai Mo Shan Country Park to clean up the trails. Within a 9-kilometer mountain trail, they collected 70 pounds of garbage, including a large number of food packaging and plastic bottles, as well as anti-epidemic supplies such as masks and wet tissues, which were not seen in the past. Actually, there were reports about people hanging discarded masks on trees in the countryside, such behavior lacks moral sense and increases the chance of spreading the virus. The team also found at least 1,500 cigarette butts in this cleanup operation. Had the cigarette butts not been completely extinguished, they would easily lead to wildfire disaster.

Hong kongTai lam chungHong kong generalTai mo shanUniversity of hong kongConservation departmentDepartment of computer scienceDepartment of geographyNational geographicEnvironmental protection departmentGreen hiking etiquette campaignFaculty of social sciencesTai mo shan country parkLeave no tracePlan aheadDurable surfaces