Inconvenience is one of the biggest obstacles to recycling, a challenge that prompted a Hongkonger to establish a one-stop recycling service.
Jorch Wong Ching-hei left advertising in 2019 and started The Loops Hong Kong after finding that recycling different materials often required travelling to different collection points.
With no prior background in the industry, he contacted recycling operators, visited plants and learned how paper, plastics and metals were processed.
Wong also taught himself coding, spending about a year learning online before creating an early version of the platform used to arrange collections.