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Hong Kong plastic disaster, the Glossary

The Hong Kong plastic disaster refers to a marine pollution event in adjacent waters of Hong Kong in 2012.^[1]

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2012 in Macau
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Apple Daily

Apple Daily (t; Jyutping: ping4 gwo2 jat6 bou3) was a Chinese-language tabloid published in Hong Kong from 1995 to 2021, with a digital-only English edition launched in May, 2020.

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Biodegradation

Biodegradation is the breakdown of organic matter by microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi.

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Bisphenol A

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical compound primarily used in the manufacturing of various plastics.

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Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (Cheng;; born 13 May 1957) is a retired Hong Kong politician who served as the fourth Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2017 to 2022, after serving as Chief Secretary for Administration for five years.

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Cheung Chau

Cheung Chau is an outlying island of Hong Kong, located southwest of Hong Kong Island.

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Chi Ma Wan

Chi Ma Wan is a bay on southeastern Lantau Island, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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Chief Executive of Hong Kong

The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is the representative of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and head of the Government of Hong Kong.

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Chief Secretary for Administration

The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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Container ship

A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.

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COSCO Shipping Development

COSCO Shipping Development Co., Ltd., stylized as COSCO SHIPPING Development is a financial services company based in Shanghai, China.

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Discovery Bay

Discovery Bay (DB) is a resort town on Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

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Disposable tableware

Disposable tableware includes all disposable tableware like.

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Environment Bureau

The Environment Bureau (ENB) is a defunct executive agency of the Government of Hong Kong in operation from 2007 to 2022.

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Food and Environmental Hygiene Department

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) is a department of the Hong Kong Government, reporting to the Environment and Ecology Bureau.

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Food and Health Bureau

The Food and Health Bureau (FHB) was a policy bureau of the Government of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2022 that managed food hygiene, environmental hygiene and health policies in Hong Kong.

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Food chain

A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice), or decomposer (such as fungi or bacteria).

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Government Flying Service

The Hong Kong Government Flying Service (HKGFS) is a disciplined unit and paramilitary flying organisation of the Government of Hong Kong.

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Government of Hong Kong

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government, is the executive authorities of Hong Kong.

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Great Pacific garbage patch

The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific garbage patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. Hong Kong plastic disaster and Great Pacific garbage patch are plastics and the environment.

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Green sea turtle

The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae.

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Hac Sa Beach

Hac Sa Beach is a beach in Coloane, Macau.

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Hei Ling Chau

Hei Ling Chau, formerly Hayling Chau, is an island of Hong Kong, located east of Silver Mine Bay and Chi Ma Wan of Lantau Island.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hong Kong Economic Times

The Hong Kong Economic Times (abbreviated as the HKET) is a financial daily newspaper in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong Observatory

The Hong Kong Observatory is a weather forecast agency of the government of Hong Kong.

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Information Services Department

The Information Services Department (ISD) is the Hong Kong Government's public relations office, publisher, advertiser, and news agency, serving as the link between the government and the media.

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Ko Wing-man

Dr Ko Wing-man GBS, JP (born 1957) is a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong.

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Kwai Tsing Container Terminals

Kwai Tsing Container Terminals is the main port facilities in the reclamation along Rambler Channel between Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong.

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Lamma Island

Lamma Island, also known as Y Island or Pok Liu Chau or simply Pok Liu, is the third largest island in Hong Kong.

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List of environmental disasters

This article is a list of environmental disasters.

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List of environmental issues

This is an alphabetical list of environmental issues, harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment.

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List of synthetic polymers

Some familiar household synthetic polymers include: Nylons in textiles and fabrics, Teflon in non-stick pans, Bakelite for electrical switches, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in pipes, etc.

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Marine debris

Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created solid material that has deliberately or accidentally been released in seas or the ocean.

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Marine Department (Hong Kong)

The Marine Department of the Hong Kong Government is responsible for maintaining safety and environmental protection of the harbour (Port of Hong Kong), ships registered/foreign ships in Hong Kong and monitor shipping traffic in Hong Kong waters, search and rescue operations for large waters of the South China Sea.

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Marine pollution

Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.

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Ming Pao

Ming Pao is a Chinese-language newspaper published by Media Chinese International in Hong Kong.

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Molecule

A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion.

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Mui Wo

Mui Wo is a rural town on the eastern coast of Lantau Island in Hong Kong.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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Nim Shue Wan

Nim Shue Wan is the south facing bay on the south side of Discovery Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

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Ninepin Group

The Ninepin Group or Kwo Chau Islands is a group of 29 islands in the easternmost waters of Hong Kong.

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Nurdle (bead)

Pre-production plastic pellets, commonly known as nurdles, are tiny plastic pellets (smaller than) that are universally used in the plastics industry for the manufacture of plastic products.

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Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong

The Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong, often referred to by its initialism OPCFHK, is a registered charitable non-governmental organisation under the Ocean Park Corporation.

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Oriental Daily News

Oriental Daily News is a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong.

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Peng Chau

Peng Chau is a small island located off the north-eastern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Photodegradation

Photodegradation is the alteration of materials by light. Hong Kong plastic disaster and Photodegradation are plastics and the environment.

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Plastic pollution

Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects humans, wildlife and their habitat. Hong Kong plastic disaster and plastic pollution are plastics and the environment.

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Polymer

A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.

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Polypropylene

Polypropylene (PP), also known as polypropene, is a thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications.

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Propylene

Propylene, also known as propene, is an unsaturated organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis is the process of thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures, often in an inert atmosphere.

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Resin identification code

The ASTM International Resin Identification Coding System, often abbreviated RIC, is a set of symbols appearing on plastic products that identify the plastic resin out of which the product is made.

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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is a non-profit, marine conservation activism organization based in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington, in the United States.

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Sham Wan (Lamma Island)

Sham Wan is a bay in the southeastern part of Lamma Island in Hong Kong.

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Shek O

Shek O is an area of the south-eastern part of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.

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Sing Tao Daily

The Sing Tao Daily (also known as Sing Tao Jih Pao) is among Hong Kong's oldest Chinese language newspapers.

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Sinopec

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec, is a Chinese oil and gas enterprise based in Beijing.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.

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Stanley, Hong Kong

Stanley, or Chek Chue, is a coastal town and a popular tourist attraction in Hong Kong.

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Tai A Chau

Tai A Chau is an uninhabited island of Hong Kong, part of the Soko Islands group, located south of Lantau Island.

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The Standard (Hong Kong)

The Standard is an English-language free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation of 200,450 in 2012.

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The Sun (Hong Kong)

The Sun was one of the newspapers in Hong Kong, first published in March 1999.

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Typhoon Kai-tak (2012)

Typhoon Kai-tak, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Helen, was a mild tropical cyclone that affected China, Vietnam and Laos.

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Typhoon Vicente

Typhoon Vicente, known in the Philippines as Tropical Depression Ferdie, was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the Chinese province of Guangdong since Hagupit in 2008, and was regarded as the strongest storm to affect Hong Kong and Macau in more than ten years.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.

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Wong Kam-sing

Wong Kam-sing, GBS, JP (born in 1963), is a Hong Kong architect and the former Secretary for the Environment, Wong had held a number of public service positions before joining the Government, including the first Chairman of the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Chairman of the Professional Green Building Council and the Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Green Building Council.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_plastic_disaster

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Hong Kong plastic disaster, the Glossary

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See also

2012 in Macau

2012 in the environment

2012 industrial disasters

Maritime incidents in Hong Kong

Plastics and the environment

Water in Hong Kong

Water in Macau

References