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The alarming rate at which the amount of plastic is growing in the ocean potentially results in major environmental issues. Environmentally friendly firms nowadays are all focused on creating awareness on recycling since it is much more efficient, reliable, and cheap to recycle by doing so. By discovering a new sustainable methodology ensures that the amount of plastic entering the ocean dramatically reduces. For this same reason, a group of locals in Hong Kong who have massively settled across the Shing Mun River have collected plastic wastes from the river before it enters the oceans and recycles them to make furniture. It is not just an effective way of sustaining ocean pollution but has also proved to be a reliable source of income for the locals. Consequently, for the purpose of this research paper, it will further elaborate on the various ways through which plastic waste has been recycled to make public furniture in Hong Kong and the various measures taken to strengthen the market on buying furniture made from recycled furniture plastic waste.
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Zhou, H., Wang, T., Wu, T., Huang, J. (2022). New Business Model of Furniture from Recycled Plastic Waste. In: Li, X., Yuan, C., Ganchev, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Business and Policy Studies. CONF-BPS 2022. Applied Economics and Policy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5727-7_84
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