Analysing the Community Green Stations' performance in changing public recycling behaviour: A case study of GREEN@YUEN LONG, GREEN@YUEN LONG HUI, and GREEN@ LONG PING

Recently, government has developed Community Green Stations (CGS) in each of the districts in order to relieve landfill saturation and promote a green lifestyle. CGSs are facilities to enhance the envrionment-educational and provide a location to collect the recyclables at the district level thereby gaining more community support. This research aims to analyse the performance of CGSs through studying three CGSs in Yuen Long district. To achieve these goals, questionnaires distributed to 208 visitors and residents of Yuen Long district in February 2023. In addition, field visits to the three CGSs conducted in February and March 2023. The performance of the exhibits, environmental - educational programmes, and recycling facilities offered by CGSs received an average score of 3.56, 3.65, and 3.97 out of 5 from visitors, respectively. Although participants were mostly pleased with the services, there was plenty of potential for improvement disclosed. It has been demonstrated that the inaccessibility of CGSs or their location further from where residents live have a negative effect on their popularity, especially the GREEN@YUEN LONG. The questionnaires results suggested a significant correlation between the demographic characteristics and their purposes and knowledge with CGSs (p< 0.05). It is hoped that society can chalk this one up to experience as enhancing the environmental-education and promoting recycling habits in Hong Kong.