IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v15y2023i4p3310-d1065044.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Enhancement of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Hong Kong through Innovative Solutions: A Review

Author

Listed:
  • Chi Ho Li

    (School of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong 999077, China)

  • Tsz Ting Lee

    (School of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong 999077, China)

  • Stephen Siu Yu Lau

    (Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China)

Abstract

With the world population having reached 8 billion people, waste generation is expected to continue its growth in the coming years. Solid waste management (SWM) is an essential part of sustainable development that aims to minimize adverse environmental impacts. Although waste problems have been monitored for decades, some regions still struggle to achieve their sustainability goals in this area. In particular, Hong Kong is still affected by overloaded landfills, with an average daily disposal of 14,739 tonnes. The major waste category is municipal solid waste (MSW), which originates from households and commercial activities. This paper provides an overview of the current SWM strategies and the advancement of technologies adopted in the SWM industry. Supported by a comprehensive literature review, this paper identifies the challenges of SWM in Hong Kong and suggests possible solutions. The findings lead to the direction of future research, which should include innovative solutions for improving recycling behaviors. Adopting technologies such as virtual reality on education platforms and developing mobile applications with a theme of SWM could promote a stronger awareness of waste reduction and recycling among the public.

Suggested Citation

  • Chi Ho Li & Tsz Ting Lee & Stephen Siu Yu Lau, 2023. "Enhancement of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Hong Kong through Innovative Solutions: A Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-15, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:4:p:3310-:d:1065044
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4/3310/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4/3310/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Henning Wilts & Beatriz Riesco Garcia & Rebeca Guerra Garlito & Laura Saralegui Gómez & Elisabet González Prieto, 2021. "Artificial Intelligence in the Sorting of Municipal Waste as an Enabler of the Circular Economy," Resources, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-9, March.
    2. Sabinne Lee & Kwangho Jung, 2018. "The Role of Community-led Governance in Innovation Diffusion: The Case of RFID Waste Pricing System in the Republic of Korea," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-23, September.
    3. Aguiar-Castillo Lidia & Rufo-Torres Julio & De Saa-Pérez Petra & Perez-Jimenez Rafael, 2018. "How to Encourage Recycling Behaviour? The Case of WasteApp: A Gamified Mobile Application," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-20, May.
    4. Kapil Dev Sharma & Siddharth Jain, 2020. "Municipal solid waste generation, composition, and management: the global scenario," Social Responsibility Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 16(6), pages 917-948, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ömer Apaydin & Gül Sümeyra Akçay Han, 2023. "Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Collection Methods Focusing on Zero-Waste Management Using an Analytical Hierarchy Process," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(17), pages 1-20, September.
    2. Julie Metta & Coline Metta-Versmessen & Valeria Alvarado, 2024. "Managing Municipal Solid Waste with low citizen involvement: the case of Hong Kong," Working Papers 2024.03, FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Emrah Kocak & Hayriye Hilal Baglitas, 2022. "The path to sustainable municipal solid waste management: Do human development, energy efficiency, and income inequality matter?," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(6), pages 1947-1962, December.
    2. Kawther Saeedi & Anna Visvizi & Dimah Alahmadi & Amal Babour, 2023. "Smart Cities and Households’ Recyclable Waste Management: The Case of Jeddah," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-23, April.
    3. Kumar, Aman & Singh, Ekta & Mishra, Rahul & Lo, Shang Lien & Kumar, Sunil, 2023. "Global trends in municipal solid waste treatment technologies through the lens of sustainable energy development opportunity," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 275(C).
    4. Abdul-Wahab Tahiru & Samuel Jerry Cobbina & Wilhemina Asare, 2024. "A Circular Economy Approach to Addressing Waste Management Challenges in Tamale’s Waste Management System," World, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-24, August.
    5. Ferdoush, Md. Ruhul & Aziz, Ridwan Al & Karmaker, Chitra Lekha & Debnath, Binoy & Limon, Mohammad Hossain & Bari, A.B.M. Mainul, 2024. "Unraveling the challenges of waste-to-energy transition in emerging economies: Implications for sustainability," Innovation and Green Development, Elsevier, vol. 3(2).
    6. Sławomir Kasiński & Marcin Dębowski, 2024. "Municipal Solid Waste as a Renewable Energy Source: Advances in Thermochemical Conversion Technologies and Environmental Impacts," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(18), pages 1-33, September.
    7. Felicien Sebahire & Faridullah Faridullah & Muhammad Irshad & Aziz Ur Rahim Bacha & Farhan Hafeez & Jean Nduwamungu, 2024. "Effect of Biochar on Composting of Cow Manure and Kitchen Waste," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(10), pages 1-14, September.
    8. Igor Donskoy, 2023. "Particle Agglomeration of Biomass and Plastic Waste during Their Thermochemical Fixed-Bed Conversion," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(12), pages 1-25, June.
    9. Lynda Andeobu & Santoso Wibowo & Srimannarayana Grandhi, 2023. "Environmental and Health Consequences of E-Waste Dumping and Recycling Carried out by Selected Countries in Asia and Latin America," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-28, July.
    10. Xiaotong Pan & Jian Tang & Heng Xia & Tianzheng Wang, 2023. "Online Combustion Status Recognition of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Process Using DFC Based on Convolutional Multi-Layer Feature Fusion," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(23), pages 1-26, November.
    11. Changhyun Kim & KwangSup Shin, 2019. "Developing Fair Investment Plans to Enhance Supply Chain Visibility Using Cooperative Games," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-13, June.
    12. Sharada Prasanna Mohanty & Rajiv Ramaswamy & Anantha Kumar Duraiappah, 2019. "On the Design of a Youth-Led, Issue-Based, Crowdsourced Global Monitoring Framework for the SDGs," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-17, December.
    13. Hanna Obracht-Prondzyńska & Ewa Duda & Helena Anacka & Jolanta Kowal, 2022. "Greencoin as an AI-Based Solution Shaping Climate Awareness," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-25, September.
    14. Ahmed Shaban & Fatma-Elzahraa Zaki & Islam H. Afefy & Giulio Di Gravio & Andrea Falegnami & Riccardo Patriarca, 2022. "An Optimization Model for the Design of a Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management System," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-19, May.
    15. Sabah Mariyam & Logan Cochrane & Shifa Zuhara & Gordon McKay, 2022. "Waste Management in Qatar: A Systematic Literature Review and Recommendations for System Strengthening," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-23, July.
    16. Hossein Nasrollahi & Ioannis Lampropoulos & Stefan Werning & Anton Belinskiy & Jan Dirk Fijnheer & Remco C. Veltkamp & Wilfried van Sark, 2023. "Review of Serious Energy Games: Objectives, Approaches, Applications, Data Integration, and Performance Assessment," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(19), pages 1-42, October.
    17. Kubíková Ľubomíra & Rudý Stanislav, 2024. "Identification of Slovak Tourists’ Attitudes Towards Digitalization for Circular Economy and Waste Management," Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence, Sciendo, vol. 18(1), pages 856-869.
    18. Ligorio, Lorenzo & Venturelli, Andrea & Caputo, Fabio, 2022. "Tracing the boundaries between sustainable cities and cities for sustainable development. An LDA analysis of management studies," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
    19. Daniel Luiz de Mattos Nascimento & Diessica de Oliveira‐Dias & José Moyano‐Fuentes & Juan Manuel Maqueira Marín & Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes, 2024. "Interrelationships between circular economy and Industry 4.0: A research agenda for sustainable supply chains," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(2), pages 575-596, February.
    20. Simona Andreea Apostu & Iza Gigauri & Mirela Panait & Pedro A. Martín-Cervantes, 2023. "Is Europe on the Way to Sustainable Development? Compatibility of Green Environment, Economic Growth, and Circular Economy Issues," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-17, January.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:4:p:3310-:d:1065044. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.