Fast-paced and bustling, Hong Kong and its urbanized lifestyle produce a considerable amount of carbon dioxide. According to the Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong's carbon dioxide emissions per capita are now seven tonnes per year – nearly 70% higher than international levels. It's time to slower global warming and protect the earth's precious resources!
Towngas offers you a variety of simple carbon reduction tips. We can help you easily reduce daily carbon emissions . Act now with Towngas Low Carbon Action! to help improve our environment!
Low Carbon Action!
Let's reduce carbon emissions together.
Low Carbon Action
Low-carbon Action
Keen to customise the most convenient green suggestions for you, we came up with three different sets of low-carbon lifestyle solutions below. The combination of items in these three menus varies slightly. In addition, we provide an ‘open-ended' menu so that you can choose one that matches your lifestyle. Join us in mapping out a green future!
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My Carbon Footprint
Do you know your environmental impact on the planet and what your emissions are?
Complete the attached questionnaire detailing your energy consumption and carbon emission-related activities in your daily routine, our calculator will reveal the size of your personal carbon footprint.
Towngas Forest
How do I build a Towngas forest?
Compared with non-flame cooking, using town gas helps residential customers slash their carbon emissions. Carbon reduction can be conveyed as a number of trees with the same carbon dioxide absorption effect. In this website, we make use of your tree contributions to Hong Kong and build a virtual forest.
Better understanding on town gas green production
Town gas is not produced by burning coal but by a mixture of natural gas and naphtha as feedstock, which effectively reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides. Therefore, using flame cooking can help improve Hong Kong's air quality. The average annual environmental effects are comparable to planting eight trees per household.
* This data compares cooking fuel, gas-flame cooking with other non-flame energy.
Climate change
Reason:
Our life on earth is comfortable because we're covered by the atmosphere. It protects the earth from cosmic radiation and helps stabilise the environment and our climate.
The atmosphere reflects most of the sun's heat back to outer space, while greenhouse gases (GHGs) absorb part of the heat and later release it to earth. In this process, the temperature of the earth is adjusted.
We have seen the important role that GHGs play in regulating the Earth's climate. However, the following GHGs have substantially increased in the atmosphere due to human activities:
Consequences:
The atmosphere's various components trigger natural climate change. However, human activities also affect this natural phenomenon. Over the past hundred years, the temperature of the Earth's surface has risen annually by an average of 0.74 °C. If this pattern continues, Hong Kong will not experience any winters in 20 to 30 years.
Green Tips
Green living
As the population keeps growing, we keep over-consuming the earth's valuable resources. Between 1890 and 1990, the world's population grew by a factor of four, while the consumption of water grew 9 times, energy consumption 16 times, the consumption of fish 35 times, and the consumption of industrial products 40 times! This disproportionate consumption causes problems such as species extinction, water pollution, waste hoarding, and more.
To address these problems, we must recognise that our attitudes towards the earth's resources and how we live matter. Act now and practice green living.
Please take part in protecting the environment. You can refer to the green tips below.
Other than the above three tips, you can scroll down to the next page and learn more about low-carbon cooking.
Low-carbon cooking
At Towngas, we focus on environmental protection, particularly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here are some green cooking tips that will help you maximise energy efficiency when using town gas while reducing your energy costs.
Want to improve your savings even further? Try putting several of these tips into practice all at once.
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General cooking
Cover your cookware with a tight-fitting lid while cooking.
Your energy costs and carbon emissions may be reduced by up to 10% as residual heat is retained longer.
Extra tip: To keep vegetables crisp and fresh, add some sugar before cooking.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
General cooking
Keep your cooking burner clean.
An extremely dirty burner may lead to additional energy costs and carbon emissions by up to 7% and cooking times that are potentially 30% longer.
Extra tip: A yellow flame usually indicates a dirty burner
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
General cooking
Use cookware that is the appropriate size for your stovetop so that the flame is completely covered.
Your energy costs and carbon emissions may be reduced by up to 30%.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
General cooking
Defrost your food before cooking it.
Your energy costs and carbon emissions may be reduced by up to 25% and your cooking times shortened by up to 20%.
Extra tip: Move the frozen food that you need to defrost from a freezer unit to a refrigerator unit the day before you cook it.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
Frying and deep frying
When pan-frying small amounts of food, try moving the food in a circle around the centre of the pan, keeping away from the edges. (As shown)
Your energy costs, carbon emissions and cooking times may be reduced by up to 10%.
Extra tip: Try cooking more food at one time so that heat from the pan is not wasted and the food is cooked more efficiently.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
Frying and deep frying
When deep-frying, try a thin-walled wok instead of a frying pan so that less oil will need to be preheated.
Your energy costs, carbon emissions and cooking times may be reduced by up to 30%.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
Steaming and simmering
Try reducing the amount of water used.
For example, a 60% increase in water used for preheating may lead to a 50% increase in energy costs, carbon emissions and cooking times.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
Steaming and simmering
When possible, steam your food using a metallic container rather than a ceramic one.
Your energy costs, carbon emissions and cooking times may be reduced by up to 25%.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
Steaming and simmering
When possible, place food inside the cookware before turning on the power for steaming.
Your energy costs and carbon emissions may be reduced by up to 5% and your cooking times shortened by up to 10%.
Extra tip: This is not recommended for steaming raw meat and fish as it may affect the texture of the food.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.
Steaming and simmering
When steaming, switch power to low as soon as the water boils.
Your energy costs and carbon emission may be reduced by up to 25%.
The results of the above tips were obtained from experiments using a gas cooker model TGC R-22.
The savings that one can achieve could be affected by cooking conditions and environment.