This plan project will mainly assist in coordinating with environmental-friendly night market and commercial district policy of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), reducing the use of disposal products in the night market, and implementing waste classification to achieve the goal of waste reduction. Besides, it will subsidize the demo night-market to promote waste reduction, environmental protection facilities, and other measures, and also issue the "Environmental-friendly Stalls" label for stores that work for the improvement as reference for consumers. Based on these measures, it is hoped that the demo night market will take the lead to guide those 400 night markets across the country, turning themselves into five-star night markets with economical consumption and outstanding environment, thus effectively reducing waste of resources. According to the contract, personnel and equipment of this project should be set in place by November 6, 2020 (document statement No. 1090036329 of approval for filing from Environmental Protection Bureau of Chiayi County on 24th November, 2020 for future reference) with a duration of implementation for 1.5 months. The progress and summary of the implementation results regarding various tasks are as found as follows: 1. Integrate legitimate night markets (commercial districts) within the jurisdiction to promote related businesses as source reduction for disposal products. (1) Integrate the catering and beverage industry in the Charming Commercial District of Singang, and promote the replacement of disposable and melamine tableware among catering and beverage areas in the night market at commercial district. For food stalls that have seating areas and provide tableware for the general public, they will be advised and consulted to switch to pottery, porcelain, glass, and stainless-steel environment-friendly tableware, with a total of 10 stalls being subsidized. (2) The team has invited the catering industry to participate in the project, so that people can always enjoy marvelous discounts and preferential measures for environmental protection no matter if they use their own tableware to dine in or dine out. Establishments of participating merchants need to provide relevant preferential measures on their own, so that the when the public can enjoy measures as they consume at the stores. With all these efforts, a total of 10 catering stalls are coached to provide preferential measures to diners who bring their own meal-box or tableware, helping to boost the incentives of the public to carry them on their own. (3) To help the stalls at the commercial district to establish good food hygiene habits, good practice and operation guidelines for dish-washing are planned for introduction into the training course of dishwashing so as to strengthen the stalls at the commercial district to possess a further and penetrative understanding. On November 27, a session of workshop on tableware washing was organized for catering industry, with a total of 30 participants as involved. (4) To effectively reduce the harm caused by disposable plastic bags for shopping, this project has worked with relevant stores in Singang Charm Commercial District that provide plastic bags for shopping in order to promote the recovery of shopping bags for reuse. Besides, the measure offers the service to provide the public with shopping bags for recycle, or they can request for using recycled shopping bags, with a total of 11 locations set up for it. (5) To fully appreciate the necessity to establishment environmental-friendly night market at the commercial district by night market operators around the proximity, and elaborate on the planning of related facilities in the environmental-friendly night market at the commercial district, a session of briefing on Singang Charm Commercial District was held with a total of 30 participants taken part. (6) The project has organized the promotional activities on environmental-friendly night market from December 7th to 20th, and set up a booth on December 5th and 6th as working in conjunction with the event as "Genuinely Outstanding Singang ~ Featured Agricultural Products Exhibition and Sale" held by Singang Township Office. During these days, the booth has conducted briefing and guide to explain the content of this event so as to attract more people to participate. 2. Set up resource recycle facilities and other related businesses Regular waste, resource waste, and food waste recycling facilities are set up at Singang Charm Commercial District, while staffers are dispatched to organize and clean up these facilities which are found at 3 locations. Then, reports on the monthly results of resource recycle amount are submitted to Singang Township Cleaning Team for compiling and organization.

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