Live Zero · Left Zero
Lab0ver is a community food waste and environmental education group in Tuen Mun. With our neighbours in San Hui and Tseng Choi Street, we collect food scraps, ferment them with Bokashi, and send them to farms in Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai as compost. We’re not here to make anyone afraid of food waste — we want you to get to know it, and get along with it.
On the last Saturday of every even month, we collect, weigh and log food waste in San Hui, then run a street booth. Join in and you become a “Tuen Friend” — and earn our community currency, “Tuen Dollars”.
See the details →Ugly-food pizza, DIY Bokashi bins, Re-Pot planters, fruit-peel enzyme, natural dyeing, farm days… for schools, NGOs and companies, as a one-off or a longer programme.
See workshops →Since 2022 we’ve worked with coffee shops to take their grounds to farms in Kam Tin and Ngau Tam Mei. Our Tuen Mun partner shops get a thank-you card each month showing how many kilos we’ve saved together.
About coffee grounds →3,001tonnes of food waste are thrown away in Hong Kong every day (EPD, 2024). We started on one street in Tuen Mun, finding it a better place to go.
Organised by the South China Morning Post and presented by Ocean Park Hong Kong. On 1 December 2023, Lab0ver received the award for collecting and recycling food waste in the community. It belongs to every neighbour who has dropped off a peel, every partner shop, and every researcher who has got their hands in the soil.
“Lab0ver, a group dedicated to collecting and recycling food waste from the community, bagged the sustainability award.” — South China Morning Post
“Take the demon out of food waste — see it as something natural, not something dirty.”
Neighbours, volunteers, shops, schools and companies are all welcome. Drop us a WhatsApp and let’s work out how to be friends with food waste together.