This project, which constitutes the second year of a two-year project, is carried out between March 2010 and December 2010. The main objective of the project was to help promote the Environmental Protection Administration’s Six-Year Plan– “Creation of Sustainable, High-quality Environmental Sanitation”– which had been approved by the Executive Yuan. The Six-Year Plan will build on the foundations already laid by the “Clean Up Taiwan” initiative to bring about ongoing improvement in environmental sanitation and enhance the quality of life. The project further promoted the implementation of four sub-projects— “Clean Up Taiwan Multi-tiered Remobilization”, “Improvement in Environmental Sanitation in Urban and Rural Areas”, “Building Model Environmental Protection Districts”, and “Cleaning Up Taiwan’s Coastline”. The applications for the above sub-projects were reviewed. The other key objectives of this year’s project was the enhancement of environmental cleanliness and tidiness; emphasis were put on incorporating the “5S” methodology into our culture and encouraging the participation of central government agencies, county and city governments, communities, schools, businesses, volunteer groups and citizens, with the common goal of working together to improve living environments and achieve sustainable, high-quality environmental sanitation. This year, the review and revision of procedures and guidelines regarding incentive measures have been completed. With a total funding of NTD$810 million from the Environmental Protection Administration, the following results have been achieved: a total of 251 Clean Up Taiwan sub-teams have been established throughout the country; 633 villages accomplished an accumulated total of 1,314 items listed on the Environmental Sanitation Sustainability Index; 240 tourist sights and spots in particularly run-down condition have been cleaned up by 25 rural and urban communities. In addition to the five communities selected to establish high-quality environmental demonstration areas in 2009, the following 5 communities have also been selected for year 2011: Nangang District of Taipei City, Nantun District and West District of Taichung City, North District of Tainan City, and Mituo Village of Kaohsiung County. Equally as impressive, 153,357 people from volunteer groups and business organizations have cleaned up 17,538 km of Taiwan’s beaches, clearing a total of 11,323 tons of garbage.

Environmental Sanitation;Clean Up Taiwan;Model Environmental Protection Districts