Established in October, 1999, Fu-Hua Night Market serves as a local night market for the nearby community, opens on every Tuesday and Friday, from 4PM to 11:30 PM. It contains mostly food stalls and some retailers that sell daily necessities and clothing; also, it has some game stalls. Since most of its customers are nearby residents, so as to preserve the quality of the market, the Fu-Hua Night market committee prohibits any gambling activities among all stalls. Considering that Fu-Hua night market being a local market which have gained permission from Tainan City Market Administration Office in 2018 to run their business formally, the features that it has its own customer base and the chairman of the committee being willing to coordinate for the eco-friendly changes make it an ideal fit for the eco-friendly program. The 2020 eco-friendly night market pilot program had been implemented from October 6 to December 15. The summaries of the divided sections of the program are as follows: A. Reduce single-use product Nearly 94% of the dine-in stalls use PP tableware that provided by this program instead of disposable ones; 88% of the food-to-go stalls agree to provide no disposable plastic tableware. To dismiss the doubts vendors might have about the PP tableware, we’ve held 2 Tableware Cleaning Forums on October 30 and November 13. During the operation period, the tableware and re-use bag rental service had served 1,004 people, most are participants of the points collecting campaign which held for boosting customers’ will to go eco-friendly when visit a night market. By the end of this program, there were 48 people awarded in exchange for accomplish the points collecting. B. Resource recycling According to the site plan of Fu-Hua market, we’ve installed 3 sets of classification recycling bins at its main entrance/exit. Every set contains three bins that collect general waste, recycling resources and food waste. During the implementation of this program, the recycling rate had risen from 2.0% to 4.7%; food waste recycling had risen even higher, from 6.6% to12.1%. The daily amount of general waste decreased from339.7 to 215.9 kilos; and had recycled 12.3 kilos resources and 31.5 kilos food waste a day on average. C. Promotion and Dissemination To promote the eco-friendly night market program, we’ve created catchphrases, designed propaganda/ information flyers and composed news content to expose on press and social media, in order to disseminate the eco-friendly concepts, so as to encourage people going green while visiting night markets. D. Results and achievement During the implementation of the program, we’ve inspected the implementing status of reducing disposable tableware, resources recycling, sewage treatment, and environmental cleanups. 12 inspections/examinations had been operated during the program period, and a total 24 vendors had been examined, no violation of regulations had been seen. E. Assist in other assigned works from Tnepb On November 17, We’ve assisted in the preparation of the opening press conference which Tainan city mayor Huang Wei-che along with several city councilmen were attended.

eco-friendly night market, Reduce single-use product, Resource recycling