FEHD’s spring cleaning ahead of the New Year Rush

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) has kicked off a citywide clean-up campaign, aiming to enhance and uphold the cleanliness and hygiene of Hong Kong to welcome the Year of the Snake.

Throughout the 21-day campaign, FEHD will deploy pressure washer surface cleaners to clean the streets across various districts, as well as to improve cleaning services in rear lanes and hygiene blackspots.

Meanwhile, the cleaning service at public facilities managed by the department, including markets, cooked food centers, hawker bazaars, public toilets and refuse collection points, will also be enhanced.

The department will also intensify inspections in areas prone to illegal refuse dumping and other public cleanliness offenses, alongside cleaning and disinfection of market facilities.

In addition, mosquito and rodent prevention as well as control operations will be conducted at old tenement buildings, streets, back lanes, village houses and construction sites based on district needs, with a focus on night rodent control measures.

The spokesman stated the department will continue strengthening enforcement and issue fixed penalty notices to those violating public cleanliness and obstruction regulations.