The Numbers Game
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Food<br />
3,648 tonnes<br />
Amount of<br />
food we throw<br />
away per day, a full third of our total waste production.<br />
We each consume 1.12kg of food daily… But in a threeperson<br />
household, 1kg more will end up in a landfill.<br />
Supermarkets ditch 29 tonnes of edible food, daily.<br />
Consumed per day<br />
3.36kg<br />
Cocktail Costs<br />
What goes into the price of one of the city’s top cocktails?<br />
We dug around to find out.<br />
Staff costs<br />
30%<br />
Utilities<br />
5%<br />
Rent<br />
20%<br />
Start-up repayment<br />
5%<br />
Ingredients<br />
15-20%<br />
Profit<br />
5-10%<br />
Other costs<br />
10%<br />
(Most possibly invented) Legco Stats<br />
Extra food wasted<br />
1kg<br />
Fishball Stalls<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are 3,420 licensed “light refreshment<br />
restaurants,” or snack stalls in the city, or one for<br />
every 2,134 people. If each stall served 88 people<br />
per hour you could serve the whole city in a day.<br />
Every day, Legco generates:<br />
Hot air from interminable waffle<br />
70 m 3<br />
Loud noises & gas<br />
150dB<br />
Bullshit per day<br />
20kg<br />
( =jet engine)<br />
x88<br />
per hour<br />
Sources:<br />
Labour Department, Transport Department, Office of the Communications Authority, Gordon Mathews (CUHK), Department of Health, Census and Statistics Department, Institute for Management, UN World Happiness<br />
Report, UBS Prices and Earnings, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Tourism Commission, Family Planning Association of Hong Kong, Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Food<br />
and Environmental Hygiene Department, our brains<br />
HK MAGAZINE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016 11
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