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Recyclers Worried Stopping Glass Bottle Recycling To Deter Petrol Bomb Production Might Cause Financial Hardship
(17 Nov) As the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (anti-ELAB) controversy continues, protesters had thrown thousands of petrol bombs made of glass bottles. Some glass recycling contractors confirmed that they had been notified by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) that, after considering factors due to the recent situation, they needed to completely stop accepting any glass bottles. They also had to reduce the number of recycling bins for collecting glass bottles in public places. Green groups worry that the indiscriminate halt of glass bottle recycling would add pressures on the landfill, and may disrupt the chain of recycling business. The efficiency would decrease even if recycling is resumed. We asked EPD why glass bottle recycling was stopped but didn't get a response before this article was published.
Environmentalists reported that recyclers had been notified by the EPD recently to temporarily stop taking in glass bottles. Even the recycling bins on the streets, residential area, shopping malls, and hotels also needed to be retracted, just in case someone would take away those glass bottles to make petrol bombs.
Recycler Hong Kong Glass Reborn general manager Fung Wah Hung stated that he still had not received any notification from the EPD, and would follow up on Monday. He said there were about 20 to 30 employees in his company. The monthly rent, labour, and other fixed expenses totalled to nearly 1 million dollars. If glass bottle recycling is completely halted, it would bring much financial pressure. He then said that, since the daily number of collected glass bottles is huge, it is hard to detect whether anyone is stealing them to make petrol bombs. He believes that if recyclers are allowed to do their jobs properly, it might even lower the risk of letting glass bottle be fallen into the wrong hands.
A "logistic soldier" who didn't want to disclose his name told us that quite a few people would take glass bottles from the glass recycling bins, or would grab those abandoned outside of the bars, to make petrol bombs.
Staff member Mr. Tse of a bar "D26" at Lan Kwai Fong showed us a notice from the recyclers that he received 2 days ago. It was written, "By request of the EPD, temporarily halt glass bottle recycle until further notice." He said, it was still not known when bottle recycling could resume. He explained, in the past, after the bars gathered the bottles at night, they would bag them and put outside of the door. Someone would pick them up the next day. Mr. Tse said that sometimes people would take the glass bottles and resell then to recyclers. That wasn't news to him, and he couldn't be sure if anyone used the glass bottles to make petrol bombs.
Miss Wong living nearby Lan Kwai Fong said she didn't pay attention to how glass bottles were recycled, and never noticed if anyone takes away the glass bottles that are waiting to be collected. She believes it is not environmentally friendly for the government to temporarily halt glass bottle recycling, and it would not have much effect on preventing people from making petrol bombs. "This doesn't solve the problem. If those people want to get glass bottles, there would still be other ways. They won't run short just because you halt recycling."
Source: Mingpao
https://bit.ly/2Xvc7bF
#Recycle #GlassBottles #PetrolBomb
Recyclers Worried Stopping Glass Bottle Recycling To Deter Petrol Bomb Production Might Cause Financial Hardship
(17 Nov) As the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (anti-ELAB) controversy continues, protesters had thrown thousands of petrol bombs made of glass bottles. Some glass recycling contractors confirmed that they had been notified by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) that, after considering factors due to the recent situation, they needed to completely stop accepting any glass bottles. They also had to reduce the number of recycling bins for collecting glass bottles in public places. Green groups worry that the indiscriminate halt of glass bottle recycling would add pressures on the landfill, and may disrupt the chain of recycling business. The efficiency would decrease even if recycling is resumed. We asked EPD why glass bottle recycling was stopped but didn't get a response before this article was published.
Environmentalists reported that recyclers had been notified by the EPD recently to temporarily stop taking in glass bottles. Even the recycling bins on the streets, residential area, shopping malls, and hotels also needed to be retracted, just in case someone would take away those glass bottles to make petrol bombs.
Recycler Hong Kong Glass Reborn general manager Fung Wah Hung stated that he still had not received any notification from the EPD, and would follow up on Monday. He said there were about 20 to 30 employees in his company. The monthly rent, labour, and other fixed expenses totalled to nearly 1 million dollars. If glass bottle recycling is completely halted, it would bring much financial pressure. He then said that, since the daily number of collected glass bottles is huge, it is hard to detect whether anyone is stealing them to make petrol bombs. He believes that if recyclers are allowed to do their jobs properly, it might even lower the risk of letting glass bottle be fallen into the wrong hands.
A "logistic soldier" who didn't want to disclose his name told us that quite a few people would take glass bottles from the glass recycling bins, or would grab those abandoned outside of the bars, to make petrol bombs.
Staff member Mr. Tse of a bar "D26" at Lan Kwai Fong showed us a notice from the recyclers that he received 2 days ago. It was written, "By request of the EPD, temporarily halt glass bottle recycle until further notice." He said, it was still not known when bottle recycling could resume. He explained, in the past, after the bars gathered the bottles at night, they would bag them and put outside of the door. Someone would pick them up the next day. Mr. Tse said that sometimes people would take the glass bottles and resell then to recyclers. That wasn't news to him, and he couldn't be sure if anyone used the glass bottles to make petrol bombs.
Miss Wong living nearby Lan Kwai Fong said she didn't pay attention to how glass bottles were recycled, and never noticed if anyone takes away the glass bottles that are waiting to be collected. She believes it is not environmentally friendly for the government to temporarily halt glass bottle recycling, and it would not have much effect on preventing people from making petrol bombs. "This doesn't solve the problem. If those people want to get glass bottles, there would still be other ways. They won't run short just because you halt recycling."
Source: Mingpao
https://bit.ly/2Xvc7bF
#Recycle #GlassBottles #PetrolBomb
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【明報專訊】反修例風波持續，示威者投擲數以千計用玻璃樽製作的汽油彈。有廢玻璃樽回收承辦商證實接獲環保署通知，因考慮到近日情况等因素，要求回收商全面暫停回收玻璃容器，亦要減少設在公眾地方的玻璃樽回收桶數目。有酒吧表示停收後會將玻璃樽當一般垃圾棄置。本報向環保署查詢停收玻璃樽的原因為何，至截稿前未獲回覆。
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23-year-old female pro-democracy student sentenced to 38 months behind bars: "This is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear"
In Hong Kong, 23-year-old female student Yeung Wing-yu recently admitted to possessing more than 100 molotov cocktails during the Anti-Extradition Law movement in 2019. She was sentenced to three years and two months in prison on April 30, 2021.
In her hand-written petition letter to the court, she mentioned that the more she sought knowledge, the more she felt that society was full of injustice and in the end, she committed the crime in this case.
She also said, "the greatest loss to our current society, is the loss of trust". She wrote that she is filled with guilt for worrying her family during her time in custody. She also said that she would not ask the court for a lighter sentence, since it is understood that a long prison sentence was inevitable and "this is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear".
The letter concludes with a message of encouragement to all those who walked on the same path, "There are already enough people in confinement, so please take care, protect yourself and do your best to survive! I'll be waiting to receive all your letters inside."
Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #April30
https://bit.ly/3vwA7eg
https://bit.ly/3aR5kks
#Sentence #PetrolBomb #Path #Petition #NeverForget
23-year-old female pro-democracy student sentenced to 38 months behind bars: "This is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear"
In Hong Kong, 23-year-old female student Yeung Wing-yu recently admitted to possessing more than 100 molotov cocktails during the Anti-Extradition Law movement in 2019. She was sentenced to three years and two months in prison on April 30, 2021.
In her hand-written petition letter to the court, she mentioned that the more she sought knowledge, the more she felt that society was full of injustice and in the end, she committed the crime in this case.
She also said, "the greatest loss to our current society, is the loss of trust". She wrote that she is filled with guilt for worrying her family during her time in custody. She also said that she would not ask the court for a lighter sentence, since it is understood that a long prison sentence was inevitable and "this is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear".
The letter concludes with a message of encouragement to all those who walked on the same path, "There are already enough people in confinement, so please take care, protect yourself and do your best to survive! I'll be waiting to receive all your letters inside."
Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #April30
https://bit.ly/3vwA7eg
https://bit.ly/3aR5kks
#Sentence #PetrolBomb #Path #Petition #NeverForget
#Court
Police Allegedly Frames and Traps Hong Kong Student for Transporting "Petrol Bombs"
A 21-year-old student was found to have two #PetrolBombs with him when he was stopped and searched by the police near Kwai Chung Police Station in Hong Kong on the night of April 13, 2020.
The case is, however, not that straightforward. A police sheriff, who had a past record of obstruction of justice, was suspected to have framed and trapped the student.
Despite this, the Department of Justice (#DOJ) did not arrest the sheriff, but prosecuted the student over the charge over "possession of offensive weapons". The student rejected the charge, as he was only told to carry two bottles of "red wine". The case was presented in court on October 31, 2021.
The sheriff was not on the witness list, so the defence requested to summon him to the court as a witness on the next day. The court was required to warn the police that his testimony might lead him to be prosecuted.
In addition, the defence also revealed that the police had failed to bring in a key witness who was the one asking the defendant to bring two bottles of "red wine," which were petrol bomb in disguise, to the location involved.
According to a source, when the middle man was arrested, he revealef that the sheriff involved had asked him to find a "fool" to frame and trap. This was how the entire case is disclosed.
The prosecutor summoned a police officer of Kwai Chung Task Force. The officer said that the sheriff had joined the team for more than a month. On the day before the incident, the sheriff mentioned a piece of intelligence that there would be a person hiding petrol bombs in the flower rack in Kwai Fong Estate, and asked the team members to take special care of it. However, the sheriff suddenly disappeared for more than one hour in that evening, until the defendant was arrested.
Source: Stand News #Oct31
https://bit.ly/3vKVASc
#PlantingEvidence #PoliceState #Regime #PetrolBomb #RedWine
Police Allegedly Frames and Traps Hong Kong Student for Transporting "Petrol Bombs"
A 21-year-old student was found to have two #PetrolBombs with him when he was stopped and searched by the police near Kwai Chung Police Station in Hong Kong on the night of April 13, 2020.
The case is, however, not that straightforward. A police sheriff, who had a past record of obstruction of justice, was suspected to have framed and trapped the student.
Despite this, the Department of Justice (#DOJ) did not arrest the sheriff, but prosecuted the student over the charge over "possession of offensive weapons". The student rejected the charge, as he was only told to carry two bottles of "red wine". The case was presented in court on October 31, 2021.
The sheriff was not on the witness list, so the defence requested to summon him to the court as a witness on the next day. The court was required to warn the police that his testimony might lead him to be prosecuted.
In addition, the defence also revealed that the police had failed to bring in a key witness who was the one asking the defendant to bring two bottles of "red wine," which were petrol bomb in disguise, to the location involved.
According to a source, when the middle man was arrested, he revealef that the sheriff involved had asked him to find a "fool" to frame and trap. This was how the entire case is disclosed.
The prosecutor summoned a police officer of Kwai Chung Task Force. The officer said that the sheriff had joined the team for more than a month. On the day before the incident, the sheriff mentioned a piece of intelligence that there would be a person hiding petrol bombs in the flower rack in Kwai Fong Estate, and asked the team members to take special care of it. However, the sheriff suddenly disappeared for more than one hour in that evening, until the defendant was arrested.
Source: Stand News #Oct31
https://bit.ly/3vKVASc
#PlantingEvidence #PoliceState #Regime #PetrolBomb #RedWine
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IVE生稱被警長設局 應徵送「貴價酒」變運汽油彈 控方不傳召警長 | 獨媒報導 | 獨立媒體
【獨媒報導】21歲IVE男學生在去年4月13日晚，在葵涌警署附近遭截查時搜出兩支汽油彈。汽油彈案疑出現「案中案」，一名警長懷疑「自編自導」，曾因妨礙司法公正罪被捕。律政司未檢控警長，但就決定繼續檢控男學生，他否認管有攻擊性武器，案件今在西九龍法院開審。辯方指警長策劃陷阱，誘使男學生攜帶玻璃樽。被捕警長不在控方證人列表上，辯方表明將傳召他出庭
#Court
Police Allegedly Frames and Traps Hong Kong Student for Transporting "Petrol Bombs"
A 21-year-old student was found to have two #PetrolBombs with him when he was stopped and searched by the police near Kwai Chung Police Station in Hong Kong on the night of April 13, 2020.
The case is, however, not that straightforward. A police sheriff, who had a past record of obstruction of justice, was suspected to have framed and trapped the student.
Despite this, the Department of Justice (#DOJ) did not arrest the sheriff, but prosecuted the student over the charge over "possession of offensive weapons". The student rejected the charge, as he was only told to carry two bottles of "red wine". The case was presented in court on October 31, 2021.
The sheriff was not on the witness list, so the defence requested to summon him to the court as a witness on the next day. The court was required to warn the police that his testimony might lead him to be prosecuted.
In addition, the defence also revealed that the police had failed to bring in a key witness who was the one asking the defendant to bring two bottles of "red wine," which were petrol bomb in disguise, to the location involved.
According to a source, when the middle man was arrested, he revealef that the sheriff involved had asked him to find a "fool" to frame and trap. This was how the entire case is disclosed.
The prosecutor summoned a police officer of Kwai Chung Task Force. The officer said that the sheriff had joined the team for more than a month. On the day before the incident, the sheriff mentioned a piece of intelligence that there would be a person hiding petrol bombs in the flower rack in Kwai Fong Estate, and asked the team members to take special care of it. However, the sheriff suddenly disappeared for more than one hour in that evening, until the defendant was arrested.
Source: Stand News #Oct31
https://bit.ly/3vKVASc
#PlantingEvidence #PoliceState #Regime #PetrolBomb #RedWine
Police Allegedly Frames and Traps Hong Kong Student for Transporting "Petrol Bombs"
A 21-year-old student was found to have two #PetrolBombs with him when he was stopped and searched by the police near Kwai Chung Police Station in Hong Kong on the night of April 13, 2020.
The case is, however, not that straightforward. A police sheriff, who had a past record of obstruction of justice, was suspected to have framed and trapped the student.
Despite this, the Department of Justice (#DOJ) did not arrest the sheriff, but prosecuted the student over the charge over "possession of offensive weapons". The student rejected the charge, as he was only told to carry two bottles of "red wine". The case was presented in court on October 31, 2021.
The sheriff was not on the witness list, so the defence requested to summon him to the court as a witness on the next day. The court was required to warn the police that his testimony might lead him to be prosecuted.
In addition, the defence also revealed that the police had failed to bring in a key witness who was the one asking the defendant to bring two bottles of "red wine," which were petrol bomb in disguise, to the location involved.
According to a source, when the middle man was arrested, he revealef that the sheriff involved had asked him to find a "fool" to frame and trap. This was how the entire case is disclosed.
The prosecutor summoned a police officer of Kwai Chung Task Force. The officer said that the sheriff had joined the team for more than a month. On the day before the incident, the sheriff mentioned a piece of intelligence that there would be a person hiding petrol bombs in the flower rack in Kwai Fong Estate, and asked the team members to take special care of it. However, the sheriff suddenly disappeared for more than one hour in that evening, until the defendant was arrested.
Source: Stand News #Oct31
https://bit.ly/3vKVASc
#PlantingEvidence #PoliceState #Regime #PetrolBomb #RedWine
獨立媒體
IVE生稱被警長設局 應徵送「貴價酒」變運汽油彈 控方不傳召警長 | 獨媒報導 | 獨立媒體
【獨媒報導】21歲IVE男學生在去年4月13日晚，在葵涌警署附近遭截查時搜出兩支汽油彈。汽油彈案疑出現「案中案」，一名警長懷疑「自編自導」，曾因妨礙司法公正罪被捕。律政司未檢控警長，但就決定繼續檢控男學生，他否認管有攻擊性武器，案件今在西九龍法院開審。辯方指警長策劃陷阱，誘使男學生攜帶玻璃樽。被捕警長不在控方證人列表上，辯方表明將傳召他出庭