{"id":1025,"date":"2023-01-10T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T03:26:13","slug":"grmg-students-visited-o-park-1-to-learn-about-food-waste-reduction-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/2023\/01\/10\/grmg-students-visited-o-park-1-to-learn-about-food-waste-reduction-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"GRMG students visited O Park 1 to learn about food waste reduction technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from attending lectures in the classroom, GRMG students enjoy participating in field trips which provide practical experiences for students to learn in the environment, acquire knowledge, and develop thinking skills and interest in the geography subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>GRMG students visited the O Park 1 in Lantau to learn about the treatment of the food waste and how food waste can be converted to biogas and compost which can be used for electricity generation and soil enrichment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-6-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-6-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-6-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-6-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-6-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-6-1140x855.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-6-552x414.jpeg 552w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-6.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Floor plan of O Park 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-3-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-3-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-3-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-3-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-3-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-3-1-1140x855.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-3-1-552x414.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-3-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Trommel Sieve Drum which is used to sieve the non-food items from food waste.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The field trip to O Park 1 not only increases students\u2019 understanding of the food waste issue, but also helps them to reflect on why a waste treatment facility may not be welcomed by the host community and what mitigation measures can be taken to reduce the possible negative impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>GRMG field trips reinforce classroom learning, bringing lessons to life. Students have the opportunity to visualize, experience and discuss different issues about the food waste problem in Hong Kong. They also realize the importance of reducing the food waste at source and recycling the food into resources rather than disposing it in the landfills or burning it in the incinerators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-4-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-4-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-4-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-4-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-4-1140x855.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-4-552x414.jpeg 552w, https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/O-park-4.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Apart from attending...<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,451,10],"tags":[154,224,340,90,129,337],"cs":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"cs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cie.hkbu.edu.hk\/division\/as\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}