Completed a total cases of 1,054 involving burning in open air. Finding reveals that 36.2% involved large mass area consisted of combustible dry hay. Time of incident occurred mainly in July, November and mid-December. As for the remaining 63.8%，composition of combustive material are mainly solid waste city related rubbish. Based on statistical study between 2010 and 2011, there is a significant reduction in burning done in open air by 19.5%. Actual cases of complains received in 2009, 2010 and 2011 are 425,311 and 187 respectively. This clearly signals a declining trend. A total of 10 night meet the people sessions plus other mass media related advertisement were held prior to the first and second quarter of the harvesting seasons to educate the respective public entities about the negative impact involving open air burning. A total of 20 meet the people sessions were held to educate the public about the negative impact involving burning of joss paper. During the hungry ghost festival and other Chinese festive seasons, a total of 69.9 tones of joss paper are collected from many public organizations for centralized incineration. This represents an impressive 100% success rate. 162 applications for waste branches shredding were received and processed. (total tones process is 1.061) This represents a 7% increase in application rate compared to 2010. All the above trends show that the public is more aware of the negative impact generated as a result of uncontrolled burnings.

Burning in open air;centralized joss paper burning;shredding of waste branches