Experts trash HK’s ‘throwaway culture’

Never-ending task: A man carrying bags filled with plastic waste during a beach cleaning near Clear Water Bay in Hong Kong. — AFP

Unlike her fellow Hong Kong urbanites toting plastic or paper cups filled with coffee, pet groomer Lucine Mo takes her caffeine hit in a thermal mug with a QR code.

The coded mug can be returned to 35 coffee shops taking part in a Greenpeace pilot project aiming to change one of the city’s most wasteful consumption habits – the near-instinctive use of disposable cutlery.