The objective of the plan is to mitigate the emission of air pollutants produced from burning joss paper and incense during Ching Ming Festival、Ghost Festival and temples’ major festival in Tainan. The major way we conducted includes carrying out the policies named “Reduction of Joss Paper” and “Concentrated Burning of Joss Paper”; moreover, from April 2nd, several councils, personal visits, training classes and ceremonies have been held to educate the public for this project.
During Jan. to Dec. in 2015, the amount of concentrated-burning joss paper was 1,047.39 tons, gathered form 1,040 departments. Then, the amount of concentrated-burning joss paper was 698.21 tons, gathered form 568 departments during Jan. to June. in 2016, most were from buildings, temples and general people. On the other hand, we promoted “Donating-replace-joss paper” with 10 charitable organizations. There were 3,482 people taken part in the by donating money, contributed approximately NT$ 1,425,918 during 2014. Then, There were 2,494 people taken part in the by donating money, contributed approximately NT$ 1,120,057 after the next duration. With respect to another “Rice-replace-joss paper” policy, we have mitigated 39.2 tons of the useage of joss paper with the 32 cooperation of temples. Furthermore, we calculated the average amount of joss paper and incense burned per year through these personal visits, intending to maintain good air quality.
Generally, during 2014 to June,2015 , the TSP mitigation amount of“Concentrated Burning of Joss Paper” came to 6,147 kg; in “Donating-replace-joss paper” , we have mitigated 84,007 kg CO2 and 198 kg TSP; as for “Rice-replace-joss paper”, we have mitigated 58,808 kg CO2 and 138 TSP. Therefore , 145,168 kg CO2 and 138 TSP of air polltions were reduced from the policies of this project.
