The Project has been implemented over the period from March 2011 to December 31, 2011, with objectives to assist the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to enforce the ongoing implementation of the Creation of Sustainable, High-quality Environmental Sanitation Six-year Plan, through the execution of the Third Year work items from this Six-year Plan (which is being implemented over the period 2009 – 2014). Based on the past executive experience of Clean Up Taiwan, the government and private companies should continue expanding the investment to improve the environmental sanitation. By promoting the successive experience from model villages and counties, people would learn how to build high-quality living environment. In FY2011, thanks to the NT$475.3 million funding from the EPA, and thanks to close collaboration between the EPA and local government EPBs (Environmental Protection Bureaus), some progressive results have been achieved. According to EcoLife data as of November 2011, a combined total of 1,989,722 reports regarding to circular inspection, clean-up and special activity reports over the period through January to November, 2011. In the Clean Up Taiwan Multi-tiered Remobilization sub-project, environmental inspection and environmental care work was actively supported by 7,836 rural communities, 24,995 urban communities, 7,825 environmental protection volunteers, 381,939 staff and students of educational institutions, and 3,271 Clean Up Taiwan sub-teams. In the Improvement in Environmental Sanitation in Urban and Rural Areas sub-project, 692 communities have met the 878 environmental sanitation sustainability criteria; 22 individual counties and cities have completed clean-up of 167 tourist destinations and areas that had previously been noted as being particularly dirty or untidy. In the Building Model Environmental Protection Districts sub-project, financial assistance was provided to help 22 entities achieve compliance with the 77-item environmental sanitation sustainability criteria; 21 localities were selected as FY2012 Model Environmental Protection Districts. A total of 6,500 representatives of county and city government agencies and the public were invited to visit the 5 Model Environmental Protection Districts to participate in hands-on learning activities. In the Cleaning Up Taiwan’s Coastline sub-project, over the period January – November 2011 a total of 130,247 volunteers from environmental protection groups and employees of participating business enterprises undertook the cleaning up of 11,177 km of key stretches of coastline, with a remarkable clean-up achievement of 3,973 metric tons of refuse.

Environmental Sanitation;Clean Up Taiwan;Model Environmental Protection Districts