8 weeks of clean living

I recently spent a week in Hong Kong and Macau visiting a friend (needless to say the flight over there wasn’t very clean living). China is not generally known for its forward thinking environmental policies and the same holds true for the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions. The air quality there was noticeably poorer than it is in San Diego, and Hong Kong’s intense consumer culture manages to make America’s look quaint by comparison.

While I was there I tried to keep my eye out for budding signs of environmentalism and green policy, as well as other environmentally salient parts of the Hong Kong landscape. Below is a collection of pictures representing that search. Most of them are of recycling bins that I found (which are few and very far between), but I have also included a picture of the coal-fired power plant on Lamma Island and some other notable images.