No takers for free HK spa

Hi-tech facility: T-Park can incinerate up to 2,000 tonnes of sludge per day that would otherwise be sent to landfills. — EPA

HONG KONG: It is billed as a groundbreaking way to deal with Hong Kong’s human waste, and even includes an onsite spa free to residents, but a new eco-friendly sludge treatment plant has not washed with some locals.

The sustainable T-Park development blends into coastal hills near the town of Tuen Mun in the north of Hong Kong, a sleek low-rise building with a roof shaped like a wave. Each day, the HK$5bil (RM2.64bil) plant treats 1,200 tonnes of sludge from the city’s wastewater treatment plants to avoid it being dumped in Hong Kong’s overflowing landfills.