Promoting green hiking in Hong Kong EJINSIGHT
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 hangi...