Link Sustainability Lab: Creating Sustainable Pathways in Collaboration
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Welcome to the Link Sustainability Lab, an innovative non-profit collaborative platform where like-minded individuals and organisations can come together and create actionable pathways towards sustainable lifestyles and business models. The first theme of the Lab, located in the heart of the community at Link’s flagship mall Lok Fu Place, is “Take ‘eat’ seriously”.
Giving people a reason to cherish food
Approximately one-third of the solid waste in Hong Kong’s landfills is organic waste. Local NGO Food Angel, an advocate for food waste recycling and a long-standing partner of Link for over seven years, recognises that one of the main obstacles to promoting a culture of cherishing food is a lack of motivation to change.
“Empathy is essential,” says Heather Tse, Project Manager of Food Angel, who hosts a virtual reality theatre workshop at the Lab that takes children and their parents through a first-person point of view of food characters on the consequences of their food choices. “After taking part in the workshop, children become more intrinsically motivated to change their eating habits, making their peace with food one step at a time.”
With the workshop proving to be an effective formula and a crowd favourite, Heather hopes to collaborate with schools through the Lab to reach more students so they can learn about the value of food from a young age and eat with a grateful heart.
Powering a low-carbon transition for businesses
In addition, Link teamed up with CLP Power and sustainable food consultancy Grassroots Initiatives to curate “Sustainable Cha Chaan Teng”, a showroom within the Lab to showcase how even Hong Kong’s most traditional cafés can transition into sustainable businesses.
“There’s a lack of transparency in our food value chain but the solutions are actually simple,” says Peggy Chan, Principal Consultant of Grassroots Initiatives and Executive Director at Zero Foodprint Asia. “The more…