It’s a factoryhong kong in which neither she nor any member of her family works. The site runs 24 hours a day not far from her home: a factory for the recovery of cardboard waste, recycling that the local administration wants to relocate far, far away. Too far according to Sheep Poo, a student in marine biology, who intends to make her stay on the spot, in her city, in Hong Kong.
Sheep Poo, that’s not her real name: she explains it in a newspaper interview South China Morning Post, she wants to remain anonymous, and given the systematic repression put in place in recent years on all forms of demonstrations in the megalopolis, we understand why. However, she does not want to watch things happen without saying anything.
Specialist in the impact of waste on marine ecosystems, she learned that the Mil Mill factory, the only one to recycle cardboard in Hong Kong, was ordered to close its doors and return the site to the government, its lessor, in December . Without particular justification.
As a result, the plant, which transforms up to 50 tonnes of waste into paper pulp every day, could continue to do so, but by setting up in Singapore, 2,500 kilometers from its current location. A “ecological aberration” according to Sheep Poo who decided to mobilize by inventing a simple gesture: she took an empty carton of juice, she cut it out in postcard format and sent it to the Minister of Ecology, stamped, with the mention “save the recycling plant“. She showed all this on her Instagram account, and immediately her thousands of subscribers did the same.
For five days, the key word “Hong Kong needs Mil Mill“in English and Chinese has been picked up hundreds of times, with netizens taking pictures of themselves posting their card, which is as many bricks of juice landing at the ministry’s mail department.”It is easy to doexplains Sheep Poo, and above all it is necessary because we must continue to manage the waste produced by us at home“. For the moment, the minister does not answer. But there will come a time when he, too, will no longer be able to act as if he does not know.