Hong Kong Stories

The Eco Eaters (17x3)

Data di messa in onda: Ott 10, 2012

In average, every Hong Kong citizen produces 2.5 kilograms of city garbage everyday, of which over one-third is the kitchen waste food. In other words, one-third of the rubbish that Hong Kong people daily throw away involved food. Most of the food became rubbish amidst they are still in an eatable condition. Food wastage means the wasting of the world’s resources. This is an issue that calls for environmental protection awareness and thus becomes a serious problem in Hong Kong. In facing environmental crisis, Hong Kong people who are environmental-conscious, set off their life with among choices of food. They simply practice what they preach from the choices of the food they’ve taken in. The self-proclaimed “barbarian life-style” young man would eat photo chips remaining from the leftover of the chain fast food shop. He is not without money but he only wishes to remind others not to waste the food. He moves to outskirt areas, whereby dwellers over there do the cooking with woods. They eat locally grown vegetables. The said young man hosts local eco-tour. Also, he exemplifies his own life style to others so urging people not to waste food and ruin the environment. Zoey is working for a community organization in charge of the food recycle project. Every day, she and her sisters would go to the market food stalls to recover the vegetables left unsold. The vegetable vendors have no money to stock up the leftovers and so throwing them away. Zoey would then recover them as the cooking ingredients and turn them into cheap lunch for the people who wish to take the food. This is done in the hope to avoid wasting the food in landfills. Cheung Chi lives in a rural hut. He turns his own backyard into an organic field growing kitchen wastes and lives on a self-sufficient life. He runs a vegetarian restaurant in his own house and he believes that vegetarian diet can help reducing wastage and pollution as far as the earth’s resource is concerned. By conducting survey on th