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Construction waste includes waste arising from such activities as
construction, renovation, demolition, land excavation and road works.
Ideally, the waste is separated and inert material is used as fill in
reclamation sites, when available. However, a significant portion of the
waste still goes to landfills. The continued growth in waste loads means
Hong Kong is running out of landfill spaces far earlier than expected, and
the existing landfills will be filled up, one by one, if waste levels continued
to increase at current levels. Unless solutions are identified immediately,
we could face a crisis in the next decade of having nowhere to put the
thousands of tonnes of waste thrown away every day.