The objectives of this project were to assist local governments to renew their refuse collection vehicles so as to maintain their capabilities of refuse collection services and to promote the efficiency for providing people a clean, sanitized and healthy environment to live in with better quality. This project was designed continuously to implement the “Program of financial assistance local governments to renew refuse collection vehicles” included in “General Waste Resource Recycling Promotion Plan”, approved by Executive Yuan in March 31st, 2007. This project contributed to promote the renewing progress and gave support to EPA on the relative tasks. This project also drafted the specifications for new models, improvements on functions and safety requirements. This project started from May 2011 to December 2011. This project finalized the bidding documents for vary capacities of rear loader refuse trucks with advisory supervision of the professionals. The bidding documents had been utilized for the invitation of tenders and the whole procurement procedures had been finished, in accordance with observing the principle of fairness and openness, together an inter-entity supply contract. In the meantime, local governments might deliver the renewal plans with request for financial assistance. As soon as EPA approved the renewal proposals, local government might place the orders via the inter-entity supply contract. In this year, 2011, EPA has granted procurements of 277 vary capacities of refuse trucks to local governments for renewing. And the granted had been accumulating to a total of 1,714 trucks over the years from 2007 to 2011. A new model of dual-compartment rear loader refuse truck has been added to be an procurement item of the inter-entity supply contract, and the local governments have had chance to order the new model then used to improve their collection performances.This project has also accomplished the retrofitting with hydraulic hybrid system to a 12 m3 refuse truck with Mecedes Benz Atego chassis. This truck was used on the actual collection and transportation tasks to verify its performance on fuel consumption. The conclusion of field test evaluation was provided the reference for future promotion. To strengthen the safety measures during garbage collection , a study on the related issues has been started, and some guidelines, standards or instructions from abroad on the construction of refuse trucks, safeguarding, and operations has been gathered and been compared with the local codes. The outcome and suggestions would provide the basis for the succeeded drafting of guidelines that would give added support to the current local regulations on safety construction, safeguards, and operations of refuse trucks over the refuse collection and transportation.

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