Desmond Ko

Desmond is a founder at MM Limited and pioneered an alternative leather made from paper and cotton without plastics.

He is passionate about saving the environment.

He also devotes time to charitable work particularly for Hong Kong’s underprivileged youth via sports.

My Sustainability Goals for 2025:

1. Our community still has high usage of plastics. According to Greenpeace East Asia, 97% of Hong Kong’s riverine waste is of plastic, of which more than 70% comes from food, logistics and beverage packagings. In 2021, Greenpeace found micro-plastics in Hong Kong’s countryside streams for the first time. Hence, we hope our community can reduce plastics use.
2. Hong Kong people are not the most environmentally conscious on the planet. It would nice to change this outlook.
3. We have suffered from record breaking severe black rain storms this summer; I believe climate change is the root cause and as a community we need to be more aware of environmental concerns, at the same time building climate resilient infrastructure on an as green as possible basis.