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FoE Activities -- Merry
Green Christmas
地球之友活動 -- 齊來歡度綠色聖誕
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Atorn
shuttlecock was mended and painted as
a white, sweet-smiling angel; rings of
hula hoops were made into the tree trunk;
and used CD-ROMs and discarded aluminum
cans were cut into different sizes and
shapes and were turned into lovely Christmas
decorations.
These were just some of the spectacular
and fun ideas of turning wastes into useful,
beautiful material at the Eco-friendly
Christmas Tree Design Competition organised
jointly by Friends of the Earth (HK) and
Towngas.
Our judges and visitors to East Point
City shopping mall in Tseung Kwan O were
all dazzled by such a wondrous display
of waste-turned eco-friendly Christmas
trees.
The winning tree from the primary-school
section of the competition was created
by S.K.H. Ching Shan Primary School, which
gathered all possible waste material from
the school and turned it into cute-looking
decorations, and strong tree trunk.
Secondary school students drew more on
their science knowledge and made good
use of daily, but 'tough' waste material
like green soft drink bottles. These bottles,
when cut into little pieces, can be made
into snow-flakes and fig tree look-a-like.
With such an innovative idea, HK Teachers� Association
Lee Heng Kwei Secondary School won the
favour of our judges and was awarded the
secondary-school section championship.
Since 1995, Friends of the Earth (HK)
have been helping to send green Christmas
greetings by mobilising our community
members to reduce sending paper cards
and to recycle old cards.
By doing this, we have helped reduce 4
million paper cards, and save more than
a thousand trees from the axe.
This Christmas, Friends of the Earth (HK)
invited members of the public to not only
save on paper cards, but also to reduce
the packaging waste that goes with Christmas
presents and decorations.
For more information about our Waste Reduction
Campaign and this year's Green Christmas
Campaign, please visit FoE (HK)'s website
at www.foe.org.hk.
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原來破爛了的羽毛球可以用來做聖誕裝飾天使，呼拉圈又可以做成聖誕樹的枝幹，使用過的光碟和被棄置的鋁罐又可以裁剪成閃閃發亮的聖誕裝飾。
這些都是環保聖誕樹的特色設計，四十棵由中小學生一手設計和製作的環保聖誕樹於東港城展出，頓時把整個商場點綴成一個環保樹林。它們都是由香港地球之友及香港中華煤氣有限公司合辦的「綠意璀璨環保聖誕樹設計比賽」的入圍作品，在商場被評審並公開展覽，讓今個聖誕特別過得有意義。
小學組冠軍得主是聖公會靜山小學(上午及全日)。他們的聖誕樹樹幹由兩米高的羽毛球網架造成，而樹身則用了從鋁罐剪下來的鋁片作裝飾。
至於中學組的冠軍得主是香港教師會李興貴中學。他們把綠色的膠汽水樽剪開作樹葉，但過程並不容易呢，因為膠樽實在太硬。他們又用了破舊的羽毛球，造了些小天使和雪花裝飾聖誕樹。
自1995年開始，香港地球之友已動員社會大眾的力量，在聖誕節回收舊的聖誕卡和減少寄送紙製的聖誕卡。這些年來，我們協助較少製造4百萬張紙製的聖誕卡，拯救了一千多棵大樹。
這個聖誕節，我們除了鼓勵公眾人士減少寄送紙聖誕卡外，並鼓勵大家減少製造包裝廢料，這些包裝廢料都是與聖誕禮物或裝飾一起送贈予我們的摯愛親朋。
有關香港地球之友的全城減廢運動和綠色聖誕運動2003的更詳盡資料，可以瀏覽我們的網站：www.foe.org.hk。
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Our
special thanks to the Hong Kong Hotels
Association and its 43 member hotels for
supporting FoE (HK)'s Green Christmas
Campaign 2003
香港地球之友特別鳴謝香港酒店業協會及其43間參與酒店慷慨支持綠色聖誕運動2003
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