The mooncake containers recovery programme has kicked off to promote green awareness and encourage waste recovery during the festive season. 

Officiating at the opening ceremony, Permanent Secretary for the Environment, Transport & Works Keith Kwok urged the public to make an effort to help reduce waste and protect the environment by handing in mooncake containers after use at the designated collection points.

Booths will be set up at 12 shopping centres and 27 Towngas outlets from September 25 to recover used mooncake containers.

People can take paper or tin mooncake containers to the booths from noon to 7pm on September 25, 26, 29 and 30, and October 1, 2, 3, 9 and 10.

They will be given a set of coupons which can be used at 130 designated restaurants and food outlets, two cake shop chains and Towngas outlets.

This is the second year the department has organised such a programme under its ongoing partnership programme with the restaurant trade. About 25,000 mooncake containers were recovered during last year's programme.

This year's programme is co-organised by the Federation of Restaurants & Related Trades, the Association of Restaurant Managers, and the Association of Property Management Companies.

For details of the programme ,click here or visit the Green Restaurant Website at www.greenrestaurant-hk.org.

For enquiries, please call the department's Customer Service Centre at 3187 0322.

Apart from this recovery programme, the department also encourages and assists private housing estates to organise mooncake container recovery activities.

A total of 220 private housing estates have signed up to hold such activities for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.