The objective of the plan is to mitigate the emission of air pollutants produced from burning joss paper and incense during Ghost Festival and temples major festival in Tainan. The major way we conducted the policies named “Reduction of Joss Paper” and “Concentrated Burning of Joss Paper”; moreover, from April 13, several councils, personal visits, training classes and ceremonies have been held to educate the public for this project. In oreder to promote the importance of air polloution control with latest government regulation. The project held 1 division meeting, 2 explanation session, 2 clean ceremonies, 1 pray for blessings ceremony, 23 “Non-Open-Burning” explanatory session, published 6 news and 10 lists of marquees and radio broadcasting.
Meanwhile, the project also conducted 275 times temple visiting during June to August in 2017, the amount of concentrated-burning joss paper was 1,515.32 tons, gathered form 1,315 departments. On the other hand, we promoted “Donating-replace-joss paper” project, cooperating with 8 charitable organizations. There were 5,373 people taking part in this project by donating money, contributing approximately NT$ 2,965,474 during 2017. Then, the TSP mitigation amount of “ Concentrated Burning of Joss Paper ” came to 5,338 kg; in “Donating-replace-joss paper” , we have mitigated 97,861kg CO2 and 230kg TSP.
Rice is the major agriculture product of Tainan city, but the traditional open-burning straw caused air pollution after harvest season. For this reason, the project made “Non-Open-Burning Article” agreement with 301 contracted farmers among 5 rice manufacturing associations, total rice paddy reached 1,475.4 hectares. However, there were still 212 sites occurred straw open-buring that burned 51.98 hectares mainly during 3pm-5pm. The project’s members assisted to extinguish a fire on 57.33 hectares, the control rate was 65%.
Moreover, the project conducted the barren land investigation and consulting improvement, total of 45.18 hectare, including 20.56 hectare of normal barren land and 24.62 hectare of river barrren lands.
