AFCD Launches Take Your Litter Home Campaign with Volunteers to Clean Up MacLehose Trail.

2026-02-14 16:13 Last Updated At：16:28

AFCD Volunteer Team collaborates with various sectors to promote "Take Your Litter Home"

The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) announced today (February 14) that the AFCD Volunteer Team will collaborate with volunteer teams from the business sector, non-governmental organisations and other government departments to jointly promote the message of "Take Your Litter Home". The joint volunteer teams will carry out a series of clean-up and public education activities along the MacLehose Trail in the coming few months to further promote the environmental ethos of taking away one's own litter.

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AFCD Volunteer Team collaborates with various sectors to promote "Take Your Litter Home" Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

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AFCD Volunteer Team collaborates with various sectors to promote "Take Your Litter Home" Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

An AFCD spokesperson said, "Since 2015, the Department has been promoting the concept of 'Take Your Litter Home'. Over the past decade, we are pleased to observe a gradual improvement in hikers' litter-disposal habits. However, in the face of increasing numbers of visitors and practical difficulties in waste collection at remote locations, we will continue to strengthen public education. According to our statistics, the amount of litter disposal in country parks has decreased by over 40 per cent in 2025 compared to 2015."

This event, organised by the AFCD Volunteer Team together with Uni-China Group's volunteer team, involving a total of about 30 participants, carried out litter clean-up and public education work in the vicinity of Sai Wan Shan in Sai Kung. The collaboration fully demonstrates the joint efforts of the community and the Government in supporting the transformation of good practices into a social culture through concrete actions and jointly safeguarding Hong Kong's precious natural environment.

Through friendly exchanges and interactions, participating volunteers will explain to hikers how taking away their litter from remote trail sections can directly improve environmental hygiene. They will encourage the public to persistently practise waste reduction at source in all countryside areas, particularly in locations with limited waste collection services, thereby contributing to the protection and cleanliness of Hong Kong's country parks.

CFS Ensures Food Safety at 2026 Lunar New Year Fairs with Inspections and Guidelines.

CFS inspects fast food stalls at Lunar New Year fairs

The 2026 Lunar New Year (LNY) fairs are being held at 14 locations across the territory. The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has arranged for staff to inspect the fast food stalls at LNY fairs and distribute booklets to remind stall operators of food safety.

A spokesman for the CFS said today (February 14) that, to safeguard food safety and public health, CFS officers have provided health education on food safety and hygiene and distributed booklets to person-in-charge of fast food stalls at various LNY fairs, reminding them to pay more attention to food safety and environmental hygiene and take food safety measures in their operations for producing and supplying wholesome and safe food.

Moreover, the CFS has collected food samples, including mock sharks-fin soup, stinky tofu, curry fish ball and Shanghai style steamed pork dumpling, from the fast food stalls at LNY fairs for microbiological tests.

The CFS urges food business operators and food handlers to adopt the following measures to ensure food safety:

order food ingredients from reliable suppliers;

keep hands and utensils clean, and food handlers should wash or sanitise their hands thoroughly before preparing food;

separate raw and cooked food, such as using separate knives and chopping boards to handle raw and cooked food;

cook food thoroughly with the core temperature of all ingredients reaching 75 degrees Celsius or above for at least 30 seconds;

keep food at safe temperatures that hot food should be kept at above 60 degrees C while cold food should be properly covered and neatly stored at 4 degrees C or below in the refrigerator; and

avoid keeping food under room temperature for prolonged period, and follow the "two-hour/four-hour rule" in cases without temperature control, i.e. if cooked food is kept at room temperature for less than two hours, it can be refrigerated for later use or consumed within four-hour time limit; if cooked food has been kept at room temperature for more than two hours and less than four hours, it should be consumed within the four-hour time limit but cannot be refrigerated again. Cooked food that has been held at room temperature for more than four hours should be discarded.

AFCD Launches Take Your Litter Home Campaign with Volunteers to Clean Up MacLehose Trail.

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