Organizer: The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (Hong Kong Branch).

Co-organizer: HKIE Environmental Division,

Date, Time & Venue:

25 October 2019 (Friday) 2:30 -4:30 pm,

Assembly:   Gathering Point: 14:15hr. at Entrance of Chemical Waste Treatment Facility at Tsing Yi Hong Kong (See map below) 51 Tsing Yi Road South, Tsing Yi, N.T.

Chemical waste in Hong Kong is disposed of either on-site where the chemical waste is generated, at the landfill site or at other off-site disposal facilities including the Chemical Waste Treatment Centre (CWTC). All these facilities must be licensed by this department.

The Chemical Waste Treatment Facilities (CWTF) is the only chemical waste treatment facility in Hong Kong, and considered as one of the most comprehensive and sophisticated hazardous waste treatment facilities in Asia. CWTF provides a cradle-to-grave solution for all land-based chemicals, clinical, and mercury-contained waste generated in Hong Kong, as well as collection and treatment services for marine pollutants generated from ocean-going vessels.

The CWTC has been in operation since 1993. The design capacity of the CWTC is: 100,000 tonnes/ year of chemical waste, 3,696 tonnes/ year of clinical waste and mercury waste equivalent to 3.5 million lamps/ year.

The chemical waste treatment processes include oil/ water separation, physical/ chemical treatment, incineration and stabilisation. The CWTC includes several Ancillary Systems designed to support the treatment processes, these are the Waste Container Handling, Storage Tank Farm, Laboratory and Computer System.

https://www.veolia.cn/en/about-us/veolia-in-china/waste-activity/hazardous-waste-treatment

For registration, please email to IOM3 Hon. Secretary, Ir Y.C. Lam at yc.lam@jacobs.com before 11^th October, 2019 by means of HKIE standard application form. Registration will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Maximum no. of participants is 25. Priority will be given to IOM3 and HKIE Environmental Division members. Successful applicants will be notified before 15^th October 2019. Priority is given to the IOM3 and HKIE Environmental Division members.

A certificate of attendance [2 hrs] for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) will be provided at the end of the visit. For enquiries, please contact Ir CS Lam at 91527659.

Note:

1. The successful applicant need to equip with his/her own safety helmet, but equipped with his/her safety shoes and safety vest for the visit.

2. The host organizer has right to change the itinerary without prior notice. For personal interest, the participants should purchase his own insurance.

3. The visit will be cancelled if No. 8 or higher Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal or Black Rainstorm Warning is issued / still in effect within two hours before the starting time.

1. No personal insurance would be covered in the visit, the participant would purchase his /her own travel allowance for the visit.

1. No photographs taken on site shall be posted on social media or press sites

To all applicants: This event was cancelled, sorry for any inconvenience caused.