OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT STAGE
4.1.3 Green Education and Support
Food Waste
Besides collecting from tenants,
food waste is also collected from our
neighborhood at Kowloon station which
includes Yan Oi Tong Chen Cheng Yuk
Yee Kindergarten, YMMSS Yau Tsim
Neighborhood Elderly Centre and Ritz
Carlton Hong Kong. After the collection,
food waste is treated in either the
food decomposer installed at the
International Commerce Centre (ICC), or
sent to Kowloon Bio-technology Limited
to form fish food.
Green Motivations to Tenants
“Give and Take” and Community
“Give and Take” and Community
The “green business” of ICC does not just rest
within the building itself. ICC also works hard
in the “Give & Take” approach as well as in
spreading green concepts to the community.
Besides, ICC encourages tenants to participate in
waste recycling programmes at the building. ICC
works closely with stakeholders in the community,
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
and business parties to gather greater green
power to build a better future for the building
environment.
Since 2013, ICC actively “Takes” the following
recyclables from the community, turning them
into reusable materials, and “Gives” them back to
society.
Coffee
Ground
Food Waste Plastic Bottles
Festive
Food
Unwanted
Clothes
Unwanted
Books
Used
Computers
and Parts
Figure 4.1.12 A to D Green Motivation of ICC
(Source: Kai Shing Management Services Limited)
Figure 4.1.13 A and B Green Community of ICC
(Source: Kai Shing Management Services Limited)
Figure 4.1.14 A to D Green Community of ICC
(Source: Kai Shing Management Services Limited)
OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT STAGE
4.1.3 Green Education and Support
Coffee Grounds
Coffee grounds, which can be used as a fertiliser, are
collected from tenants for utilisation in planters, organic
farming and smoking areas as ash-tray filler. Other than that,
coffee grounds are re-packed for distributing to tenants for
fertilising the plants in their offices.
“Say No to Disposable Utensils”
ICC encourages tenants
to use reusable
utensils instead of the
disposable ones. To go
with this campaign,
tailor-made reusable
lunch utensils are
available for sale
at the concierge,
encouraging tenants to
work together to ease
the burden on the 3
landfills in Hong Kong.
Experimental Farm
Using Eco-bricks, an experimental
farm was set up on the podium
at the International Commerce
Centre (ICC) in 2011. The farm not
only further “greens” the outdoor
environment of
the building, it
also encourages
tenants to
participate in
green living at
their workplace
by enjoying the
fun of being “city
farmers”.
Green Messages to Tenants
Green messages are spread to tenants through
the green corner on the official website as well
as via a bi-monthly pamphlet “Green Keeping”
and a newsletter “Inside the Dragon Tail”.
For conservation reasons, all these
publications are available online and
only a small number of handouts are
printed on an as-needed basis.
Coffee Ground
There are 3 ways for coffee
grounds collected from tenants to
be recycled. They have a variety
of uses: in planters of ICC, organic
farms, smoking areas as ash-tray
fillers for cigarette
butt extinguishing.
Coffee grounds
are distributed to
tenants upon their
request or utilised
by partnering
schools and organic
farms like C. & M.A.
Sun Kei Secondary
School and the
HKFYG organic farm.
Unwanted clothes, books and computers
Used and unwanted materials may still be usable
and useful to the needy. In order to recycle used
books and clothes, together with unwanted
computers and parts, these materials are collected
regularly from tenants to distribute to people who
are in need through voluntary organisations, namely
World Vision Hong Kong, The Salvation Army and
Caritas Hong Kong.
Utilisation of Decomposed Fertiliser
Fertiliser formed after the
decomposing process in the
food decomposer is utilised by
both in-house and collaborating
partners of ICC nearby, like
coffee grounds, being used in
the planters and organic farm
of ICC to fertilise the plants.
Decomposed fertiliser is also packed properly for
further distribution to organic farms organised
by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and
schools.
Plastic Bottles
In ICC, plastic bottles are not just collected for
recycling into raw materials, they are also utilised
as eco-enzyme containers. Eco-enzyme is a kind
of eco-friendly cleaner produced by St. James
Settlement Youth Services Causeway Bay Integrated
Services Centre. It is a kind of eco-friendly cleaner
that is harm-free to the environment.
The bottles are collected by ICC in its daily
operations and from Ritz Carlton Hong Kong. They
are sent to the centre regularly after being cleaned.
Figure 4.1.12A
Figure 4.1.12B
Figure 4.1.12D
Figure 4.1.12C
Figure 4.1.13A
Figure 4.1.13B
Figure 4.1.14A
Figure 4.1.14B
Figure 4.1.14C
Figure 4.1.14D
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