The Project has been implemented over period from March, 2012 to the end of December, 2012 with objectives to assist the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to enforce the ongoing implement of the Creation of Sustainable, high-quality Environmental Sanitation Six-year Plan through the execution of the forth-year work items from this Six-year Plan (which is being implemented over the period 2009-2014), based on the pass executive experience of Clean Up Taiwan, the government improves the environmental sanitation. By promoting the successive experience from model villages and counties, people have learnt how to create the high-quality living environment. According to EcoLife data until December 2012, a combined total of 126,924 reports regarding to circular inspection, clean-up and special activity reports over the period from January to December, 2012. In the Clean Up Taiwan Multi-tiered Remobilization sub-project, environmental inspection and environmental care work was actively supported by 5,837 Clean Up Taiwan sub-teams. In the Improvement in Environmental Sanitation in Urban and Rural Areas sub-project, 639 communities have met the 937 environmental sanitation sustainability criteria; 22 individual counties and cities have completed clean-up of 169 tourist attractions where had previously been noted as particular dirty or untidy. At the same time, 830,000 occasions of potential mosquito breeding area inspection (to combat mosquito-borne diseases) was carried on to reduce the risk of dengue fever outbreaks spreading. In the Building Model Environmental Protection Districts sub-project, financial assistance was provided to help 21 entities achieve compliance with the 65-item environmental sanitation sustainability criteria; 22 localities were selected as FY2013 Model Environmental Protection Districts. A total of 5,700 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 from January – December 2012 a total of 93,191 volunteers from environmental protection groups and employees of participating business enterprises undertook the cleaning up of 7,047 km of key stretches of coastline, with a remarkable clean-up achievement of 4,128 metric tons of refuse.

Environmental Sanitation;Clean Neighborhood;Model Environment Protection Districts