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Following is the transcript of remarks by the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Wong Kam-sing, at the ground-breaking ceremony of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Treatment and Recycling Facility today (January 21):
Reporter: Could you explain why this facility is funded by the manufacturer instead of the consumers?
Secretary for the Environment: For the PRS (producer responsibility scheme) on WEEE, we are collecting the fees through, we called the people who import the products into Hong Kong, that is a convenient and reasonable way to collect the fees. But the actual cost, or extra cost, if incurred, would be somehow shared among the related stakeholders - that means the manufacturers, the retailers and the consumers. So it is not solely borne by the manufacturers, but throughout the process, there would be a commercial process, that would somehow distribute the additional cost among them.
(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.)
Ends/Thursday, January 21, 2016
Issued at HKT 18:20
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