Yat Ching, Founder of Grebbish
Yat Ching, who named herself “Eco-witch”, is fond of eco-system oriented matters. She keeps sharing and exchanging environmental-friendly messages and knowledge on her blog to encourage people to pay attention on environmental protection. She teaches the public to produce hand-made natural skin care and cleansing products such as lip balm and soap on web, also offers for sale to whose cannot make it themselves for the sake of environmental-friendly reason. In order to promote reducing the waste, she has initiated a page in Facebook called “oh yes it’s FREE”. It is an online platform that people can exchange what they do not need anymore. Instead of putting them to rubbish bin, she believes that giving them to people in need for free is a better way to solve the problem. When people praise Yat Ching’s effort on environmental protection, she never thinks it is her own credit. She claims that we all share the responsibilities on reducing waste and protecting the environment, it would not work if she is the only person to do so.
Recycling is another issue Yat Ching works on. She notices that the 1st July demonstration every year in Hong Kong would create tons of rubbish which most of them like plastic bottles and paper actually can be recycled. She then organized an operation which is to stand in front of those rubbish bins during the demonstration, ask people to put their rubbish to the appropriate recycling bin. She feels strange when somebody asked for registration and said they were interested to join. “Why they don’t just start if they think it is meaningful? Nowadays people always seek an organization for joining the activities, but never consider doing it by their own.”
Grebbish, founded by Yat Ching, is another organization that she is using to enhance the recycling actions through online platform. It aims to collect scrap or garbage from the society, try to reallocate the resources to the society. For example, they collected the useless clothes from factory then distributed them to the public for free. She emphasizes, even though an object is useless to you, it may be useful to others. That is why we need to do recycling, and why we use this method to reduce the waste.
Written by Chiu Wai Lam