Summary of the work results during the year are as follows:
(A)The promotion of the reduction of air pollution from temples
According to the survey this year, there are seven temples actively cooperating to reduce the weight of ghost money or the amount of incense. Among those temples, there are four temples reducing the amount of ghost money by 26% on average, the other three temples reduce the amount of incense by 46% on average. Since 2007 till now, a total of 66,772 kg/year of ghost money can be reduced in the temples of ours city; as for incense, a total of 4.26 million incense has been reduced. Compared to the amount of the ghost money and incense in 2011, the growth rate of ghost money reduction reached 426%; the incense reduction rate 232 %, reduced emission including 668 kg of particulate pollutants , 154 kg of sulfur oxides , 167 kg of nitrogen oxides , 7,278 kg of carbon monoxide , 5 kg of polycyclie aromartic hydrocarbons , and 100 tons carbon emissions can be reduced .
As for energy efficiency, since the promotion in 2010 till now, a total of 232,007 pieces LED bulbs has been replaced and the replacement rate reached 93 %. It has been calculated that approximately 6.82 million degrees of electricity has been reduced cumulatively and the reduction of carbon emissions is 4,091 tons, equivalent to the absorption amount of 340,000 trees.
(B)Ghost money burning together activities
During the tomb-sweeping holiday, there are 62 places cooperating with us. 13,710 kilograms of concentrated ghost money, ghost money per unit concentrated to about 221 kg; while there are 62 places cooperating last year , 14,080 kilograms of concentrated ghost money, ghost money per unit of about 234 kg, reducing the proportion of 5.6%, which shows that the advocacy gradually works when we promote the reduction of ghost money and concentration burning activities.
During the mid-ghost month, there are 152 places cooperating with us. Compared with 85 places in 2012, there are 67 places more with the growth rate of 79%. In our city, Chao Tian temple actively cooperated with us on reducing burning ghost money. On average, the quantity of burned ghost money by every household has greatly dropped from last year’s 0.146 kg to 0.117 kg this year with the decreasing rate by 20%. As for the amount of gathered ghost money, it is a total of 79.94 tons, compared with 72.94 tons in 2012, with a slight growth of 8.6%. It is estimated that about 6.2 million people join this activity, indicating that the public has accepted the operation of ghost money burning together.
(C)Open air burning petition cases and inspection operations
we have received a total of 200 public petition cases in this year. Among them, there were 94 cases with burn marks or still burning situations (taking up 47 % in the petition cases), The type of buring objects this year, compared with those in 2012, has a small difference. Straw, branches leaves and plants are the mojority. The revealed and burnt locatons mostly are situated in the west of where the population density is slower, which showed that the inspection or control measures should be enhanced in this region.
To avoid open burning waste after rice harvest, the patrol inspection operation in the agricultural area has been strengthened after the rice harvest. A total of 95 cases have been inspected, 10 cases have been revealed. In response to weather effects, the straw open burning has advanced to June and November, which shows that a step up inspections and control of the harvesting rice straw and the promotion of straw re-use measures are required to perform earlier than that in the previous year.
(D)Smoke pollution prevention information census operations in the food and beverage industry
131 places of the food and beverage industry have been completed in this year. According to the management style, Chinese food business accounts for 42%; according to the pre-treatment equipment, 62% of the business have been equipped with baffle equipment; according to the post-processing equipment, 34% of the business are installed with control equipment. Among them, the installation of the water-wash equipment occupied the most.
(E)Air pollution inspectors operation in the food and beverage industry
in this year, there were 290 cases of inspection finished. 121 petition cases on air pollution are received from the food and beverage industry business. Compared with that in the previous year, the number of petitions have declined with a reduction proportion of 15.2 %. What mentioned above showed that with the advocacy and control, the industry owners have gradually strengthened pollution control work, and reduced public pollution petition feedback.
(F)Air pollution reduction counseling in the food and beverage industry
A total of 15 times of counseling has been completed. The operation achieving rate is 100%. After the counseling member’s, Professor Zhou Ming xian, Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, on-site investigation and recommendations. There were all industries have completed improvement.
