The project was and will be executed from December 3nd, 2018 to November 30th, 2019 and divided based on works and objects into four major tasks which are: “Emission Control and Consulting Service Provision”, “Promotion of the Commercial Cooking Emission Control for Concentration Areas and Schools”, “Air Pollution Control Education for Commercial Cooking" and” Promotion of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Project of Commercial Cooking”. The results of this project up to September 30th, 2019 are summarized as follows:
1. Emission Control and Consulting Service Provision
We have surveyed 960 restaurants of which 902 were newly opened and 58 received consecutive grievances, and inspected 253 restaurants for gas collection efficiency. Among them, the installation rate of the end-of-pipe air pollution control equipment for the newly opened and the ones receiving consecutive grievances was, respectively, 80% and 88%, mainly based on EP. Additionally, onto the Grievance Map, we have inputted the grievance data for future area control reference.
2. Promotion of the Commercial Cooking Emission Control for Concentration Areas
and Schools
We have provided air pollution control consulting service to ten commercial cooking concentration areas. Among them, Xindian Anhe Night Market, Shulin Xingren Night Market, Xizhi Night Market and Shenkeng Old Street have 100% installed oily smoke control equipment; in Jinshan Old Street, three cooking waste gas exhaust pipes which led to the gutters have been corrected. In addition, in sessions of the school kitchen oily smoke prevention investigation and counseling, there were only nine school kitchens which installed air pollution control equipment. We have provided relevant technical information on prevention for schools as a reference for improvement.
3. Air Pollution Control Education for Commercial Cooking
(1) We have negotiated with four business/trade unions of the catering industry,
food material processing, concentrated market retailing vendors and private market retailing vendors, and two chain businesses of McDonald's and MOS Burger. The MOS Burger has made a written promise that all of their stores in New Taipei City will have completed the improvement in the APCDs installation by the end of the third quarter of 2020.
(2) We have negotiated with the Department of Environmental Science and Property Management and the Department of Food and Beverage Management of Jingwen University of Science and Technology for the planning of environmental protection teaching courses in the catering industry.
(3) We have helped print 3,500 copies each of the catering industry air pollution prevention and control brochures and leaflets for the distribution to the relevant firms or parties during auditing, counselling, seminars, or on-site checking conducted by environmental protection agencies, or at the registration counter of Economic Development Department.
(4) We have helped hold three sessions of the air pollution prevention and control conference regarding the catering industry law and regulations on May 9th, June 4th, and June 12th., 2019 respectively for the three parties of the firms which received consecutive grievances, the newly opened restaurants, and the firms which will be subject to air pollution control according to the law to be promulgated by Environmental Protection Administration.
4. Promotion of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Project of Commercial Cooking
(1) We have completed the inspection of 51 grill shops, which have installed APCDs. In the air treatment equipment category, the item of construction regulations had the highest compliance rate of 71%, which was followed by the item of maintenance frequency which had such rate of 63%. We already required the operators to improve according to the “New Taipei City Government's Regulations Governing Air Pollution Control ＆ Management for the Grill Shops in Residential Areas” in order to reduce their impact on their surroundings. Two such shops have set up the sampling holes according to the sampling facility specifications. The flue sampling test was completed on July 15 and 16, respectively. The odor sampling values were 1740 (standard value 2000) and 550 (standard value 1000), with both meeting emission standards.
(2) We have inspected 402 of all the operators which will be subject to air pollution control according to the new law to be promulgated by the EPA. Among them, the Other Restaurants had the highest installation rate of APCDs - 100%, followed by Chinese Food Restaurants – 79%. Based on the analysis of the chain catering businesses, we recommended that Mercuries Beef Noodle Restaurant, Yoshinoya, Noble Family Steak House and MOS Burgers should install APCDs for further stricter control in the future.
(3) We have assisted the EPD in developing the control database for the catering industry, and planning the three functions of data filing, data enquiry and statistical data for such database. This will provide references and applications for the EPD to conduct follow-up controls.
