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 January 2012 to December 2012. 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, 2012, EPA has granted procurements of 313 vary capacities of refuse trucks to local governments for renewing. And the granted had been accumulating to a total of 2,027 trucks over the years from 2007 to 2012. Considered that “General Waste Resource Recycling Promotion Plan” will end in this year, this project has supported EPA to contribute the assessment report about assisting local governments to renew their refuse collection vehicles. This project suggests central government could provide partial financial assistance in a few years to encourage local governments renews their refuse collection vehicles initiatively, moreover, to maintain the effects of replacing old vehicles with well-functioning new vehicles. If refuse collecting services starts using low carbon emission vehicles, it may set up a positive impression in following central government’s energy conservation and carbon reduction policy. Therefore, this project has assisted EPA to promote low carbon refuse collecting services in “Resource Sustainable Recycling Promotion Plan”. This project will support EPA to revise the promotion plan after Council for Economic Planning and Development reviews.

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