For the ban to work, analysts suggest a sustained implementation strategy and better availability of economically feasible non-plastic substitutes.

Post tests several types of non-plastic utensils with popular takeaway foods to see which work best.

Post report from 1947 states that concrete foundation is widely believed to house a sword, with its blade pointing towards Tokyo.

Today’s forward-looking schools, in Hong Kong and around the world, are working to bring sustainability and climate change into their curricula

Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, Greenpeace and the Conservancy Association say abandoned fish ponds in area earmarked for tech hub still have ecological value.

In China, orchids are considered one of the ‘four gentlemen’ of the plant world. Find out why at an orchid festival in Hong Kong – as well as how to avoid buying an illegally harvested wild specimen.

The Advisory Council on the Environment has unanimously endorsed the environmental impact assessment report on the San Tin Technopole with eight conditions.

Most restaurants and takeaway shops in tourists areas such as Mong Kok, Prince Edward and Yau Ma Tei still using plastic utensils at lunchtime.

Readers discuss why Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics should be embraced, and the need for the city’s residents to do to their bit to prevent wastage of food.

Tse Chin-wan says the aim of the ban is to gradually build up a plastic-free culture in society.

India outlawed the practice of forcing bears to dance for entertainment in 1972. Decades later, animal-rights groups thought they’d rescued the last one being held in captivity. But it turns out they were wrong.

A Hong Kong musical promoting marine conservation and decrying shark’s fin soup, Shark Symphony is a mix of arts: throat singing, contortionism, acrobatics and belly dancing, backed by an orchestra.

Zero Co’s Mike Smith and his team of volunteers went viral after they scooped up 147,000kg of garbage from the Taguig-Pateros River.

Ban targets sale and distribution of plastic items, but not possession, so people can still buy online.

The global drinks giant said all 500ml bottles for Coca-Cola Original, Coca-Cola No Sugar and Coca-Cola Plus in Hong Kong have shifted to recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET), the first such use of the material in China.

The museum has been encouraging members of the public to photograph colourful jumping spiders as part of a mission to boost awareness of the natural world.

Readers discuss why the city must break its addiction to plastic, and the focus on the cost of the bags to be used in the waste-charging scheme.

Officials have proposed to kill the animals in a buffer zone surrounding Nara Park that attracts thousands of visitors, who feed them rice crackers.

Readers discuss the ecological impact of reclamation off the coast of Lantau, the culling of wild boars, and the upcoming ban on single-use plastic.

Around 2 million tonnes of plastic waste is created each year in Thailand, according to official figures, in a nation seemingly addicted to plastic.

Asiatic black bears, as moon bears are also known, are classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of endangered species. Across Asia, thousands are kept as pets or farmed to extract their bile.

Highly endangered fish species are on the brink, as dam-building along the Mekong decimates the ecosystem which millions of people rely on.