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I used to attend Ashtanga yoga in a small cosy yoga school, with about 20 to 30 people in a class. I like the atmosphere where the teacher knows everyone and it was a very family-liked environment. Unfortunately, the school has been closed down. I've been searching for similar type of Ashtang yoga school on Hong Kong island but to no avail.
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An author and teacher, Dr Kam Yuen has worked with some of the world’s most respected complementary health centers & conferences, Chopra Center, San Francisco Institute of Healing Arts & Sciences, World Conference of Medical Qigong in Beijing, and consulted some well known celebrities.
Sell it or donate it, but don’t dump it into the nearest rubbish bin – the Lunar New Year-end mantra of the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) appears to have been heard by at least some members of the public.
According to the EPD, more than 500 reusable items were uploaded to its online Secondhand Exchange Platform during the Lunar New Year-end period. The department had also received many enquiries from the public about what to do with items they no longer wanted.
The Second Hand Exchange is an online mart introduced by the EPD this year to give people a means of disposing off their unwanted but still useful goods. The department also urged the public to use the waste separation facilities on estates and buildings to recover reusable materials such as not only waste paper and plastics, but metals, old clothes, electrical and electronic appliances and even rechargeable batteries, instead of discarding them as usual. According to an EPD spokesman, the waste management campaign was well received with more than 400 housing estates and residential buildings participating.
Hong Kong, like other developed countries, is generating an increasing amount of waste as its people become wealthier. Currently, about 6.4 million tons of waste are disposed in landfills each year. The growing waste load means landfills are filling up faster than expected.
However, many items that end up in landfills are not waste. A large quantity of reusable but unwanted consumer goods are disposed of because of the lack of alternative means of disposal. The Hong Kong Second-hand Exchange aims to address this situation by promoting the exchange or sale of reusable products.
22 November – 30 November 2008
(reprinted from Positive News HK)
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