The task team executed the "Resource Recycling Work Plan of Pingtung County in 2020." The resource recycling rate of Pingtung County was 55.0% as of October in 2020, which was 4.8% higher than the 50.2% in 2019. As of November 9 in 2020, the implementation progress of the work items is in compliance with the regulations, and the summary of the results is as follows:
1. Coach and assist the executive agency to strengthen the handling of resource recycling.
1. According to the “Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan in 2020 to promote the implementation of the performance assessment plan for resource recycling (hereinafter referred to as the EPA assessment plan)” and the various factors such as population, regional characteristics, resource recycling rate, amount of garbage cleared and amount of garbage generated of each township (town, city). Completed the draft of the preliminary assessment plan for the performance evaluation of resource recycling work conducted by the executive agency of Pingtung County. Based on the team’s experience in guiding township and municipal offices, provide suggestions to the staff of the Environmental Protection Bureau, Pingtung County Government (PTEPB), and cooperate and assist the staff of PTEPB to revise the preliminary assessment plan to completeness according to the actual situation.
2. According to the recycling rate in 2019, 5 townships, towns, and cities with the lowest recycling rate were selected and listed as priority coachinging objects, namely Xinyuan Township (42.6%), Linbian Township (44.5%), Nanzhou Township (45.3%), Wandan Township (45.6%), and Donggang Town (45.9%), analyze the factors of their low resource recycling rate, and guide them to strengthen garbage reduction and resource recycling work. From January to October of 2010, the resource recycling rate of the lowest five townships was significantly higher than that of 2019. The resource recycling rates in 2020 of Xinyuan Township (54.1%), Linbian Township (58.8%), Nanzhou Township (57.9%), Wandan Township (56.8%) and Donggang Town (52.3%) were 11.5%, 14.3%, 12.6%, 11.2% and 6.4% higher than those in 2019, respectively.
3. Completed the guidance of 33 townships, towns, and municipal offices in the county to meet the resource recycling sorting listed in the assessment plan of the EPA with more than 21 items. The Offices of Hengchun Town, Changzhi Township, Kanding Township, Manzhou Township and Fangshan Township proposed the photos of sorting the resource recyclables to 21 items as evidence. The Offices of Chaozhou Town, Donggang Town, Wandan Township, Jiuru Township, Ligang Township, Yanpu Township, Gaoshu Township, Wanluan Township, Neipu Township, Zhutian Township, Xinpi Township, Fangliao Township, Xinyuan Township, Linbian Township, Jiadong Township, Liuqiu Township, Sandimen Township, Wutai Township, Majia Township, Laiyi Township, Chunri Township, Shizi Township and Mudan Township have submitted the proof of the sale details as evidence. The Offices of Pingtung City, Linluo Township, Nanzhou Township, Checheng Township and Taiwu Township have provided the photos of sorting the resource recyclables to 21 items and the proof of the sale details as evidence.
4. This year, the task team has completed 44 times flow-direction tracking checks, including 13 times for waste tire, 8 times for waste PET bottle, 3 times for emptied waste pesticide bottle, 1 times or waste electronics, 4 times for waste tin container, 2 times for waste lighting source, 2 times or waste plastic container, 4 times for transparent glass container, 4 times for green glass container and 3 times for brown glass container. The task team contacted the cleaning squad of the township, town and city office in advance to grasp the time for the sale of the recyclables, and carried out the comprehensive in series flow-direction tracking on clearing and transporting from the contractor, sub-contractor or downstream collectors, intermediate processing to the final processing plant or recycling organization after the recyclables departure of the field.
I. Inspection task of the resource recycling system
(I) Conduct the key management inspection and banning task of resource recycling operators. A total of 810 inspections were carried out in total, and 789 were qualified, with a pass rate of 97.4%, and the other 21 violated the regulations, with a violation rate of 2.6%.
(II) Inspection and banning task of the 13 major industry vendors who should be set up the resource recycling facilities (except for electronic and electrical appliance vendors). A total of 269 inspections were completed, 68 of which did not meet the requirements, and all were improved on the spot after the counseling.
(III) For the waste four-machine recycling system, 76 management inspections and counseling programs were conducted, and 28 cases were not in compliance with the regulations. They all completed the improvements on the spot after counseling.
(IV) A total of 70 business including 1 business’s license withdrawn in August or 254 inspections was carried out for the recycling treatment industry.
Among them, there were 209 inspections of 60 recyclable waste recovery industries including 1 business’s license withdrawn in August. There were 18 violations in the inspection results including 2 violations of "fire extinguisher expired," 2 violations of "fire extinguisher sent for repair," 2 violations of "open-air storage of scrap tires (has been improved on site)," and 7 violations of "open-air storage of scrap tires." There were 1 violation of "No Environmental Medication Form" and 4 violations of "stagnant water on site."
There were 45 inspections of 12 recyclable waste process industries, and the inspection results showed 2 violations of "open-air storage of scrap tires."
In addition, the task team strengthened the recovery, storage, removal, and process of waste electrical and electronic equipment and IT items. There were 88 checks of 27 industries, and the check results showed 7 violations including 3 violations of "open-air storage of scrap tires," 1 violation of "fire extinguisher expired," 3 violations of "stagnant water on site."
In terms of inspection of the non-subsidized scarp motor vehicle recycling industry, 10 companies were inspected 33 times and the inspection results showed 6 violations including 2 violations of "open storage of waste tires (has been improved on site)," 1 violation of "fire extinguisher sent for repair," 1 violation of "no Environmental medication form," and 2 violations of "stagnant water on site."
This year, the PTEPB has not assigned any case to coach the operator in completing the online application, including changes and extensions.
II. Assisting agencies, schools, and organizations in handling resource recycling tasks
The plan has completed 287 agencies, schools, and community inspections and counseling. In recent years, it has been found that most units find it more troublesome to provide monthly reports, and it is more convenient to send them directly to the cleaning squadron. Therefore, the monthly reports are not required.
III. Implementation of recycling, clearing and storage operations of waste motor vehicles and classification management of scrap car recycling industry
Completed 470 times of check reports including 354 times of vehicles, 43 times of trucks, and 73 motorcycles. In term of townships, Pingtung City had the highest number of 210 vehicles posted as abandoned motor vehicles, followed by Chaozhou Town with 71 vehicles. In terms of road types, the number of abandoned motor vehicles seized, the rural roads had the highest number of 405 vehicles, followed by provincial roads with 53 vehicles and county roads with 12 vehicles.
In addition, the classification management indexes and scoring standards for the scrap motor vehicle recycling industry of the Pingtung County Environmental Protection Bureau (PTEPB) were completed, and the PTEPB's grading operation standards were provided to the EPA within the deadline. From the evaluation results, 4 companies won the gold medal, 5 companies won the silver medal, and 9 companies did not win.
IV. Improvement of resource recycling rate
(I) The plan started to strengthen the implementation of counseling in Zhutian Township, Linbian Township, Xinyuan Township, Nanzhou Township, and Wandan Township. The resource recovery rates from January to October in 2019 were all higher than those in 2018, increased by 1.9%, 6.9%, 5.2%, 6.7%, and 5.7%, respectively.
(II) Promotion of 81 campaigns on the recycling of pesticide waste containers, the total number of participants was 2,362, and the total recycling amount of pesticide waste containers was 5,675 kg, an increase of 621 kg over last year.
(III) Completed the implementation of the construction on image transformation of 5 resource recycling stations.
(IV) Complete coaching 15 individual operators in total to enter the community for resource recycling service including 2 in Donggang Town, 1 in Wandan Township, 2 in Changzhi Township, 1 in Zhutian Township, 1 in Kanding Township, 4 in Linbian Township, 1 in Jiadong Township, 2 in Manzhou Township, and 1 in Mudan Township.
(V) Completed the task for the target resource recycling rate of each implementing agency in 2019.
(VI) Completed 5 advocacy activities of fishing ports, implemented inspections and maintenance of the resource recovery facilities of fishing port, and learned from the maintenance unit that the resource recovery items collected by the resource recovery facilities this year was about 30% higher than last year, demonstrating the effectiveness of advocacy of this plan.
(VII) Grasp the list and usage amount of the recycled materials used by the four factories in Pingtung County after being processed by the subsidy industry. The total usage amount was 16,757.43 tons. The main recycled materials used were incinerated recycled pellets.
V. Handling various promotion seminars and observation activities, and implementing education and promotion activities
(I) Completed counselling for township and city offices to handle incumbent education and training for cleaning squadron members, for a total of 14 sessions, with 774 participants.
(II) Completed 1 session on opinion exchanges of resource recycling business and in-charge personnel education and training.
(III) Completed 40 sessions of resource recycling activities and seminars.
(IV) In conjunction with the Kenting Music Season held from April 4 to April 5, complete the 2019 “Kenting Music Season, so beautiful Kenting, and resource recycle coming together” resource recovery advocacy activity.
(V) Completed 1125 resource recovery media promotion work, including 2 on print media, 1123 on contracted electronic and print media advertisement.
(VI) Based on the principle of continuity and sustainability, two innovative promotion approaches were implemented on resource recovery in this project including “resource recovery site, the love action point” and “heavy motorcycle rider, sending warmth hundred miles.”
(VII) In conjunction with the Dragon Boat Festival, handle the "Dragon Boat Dragon Boat Race in the Bluefin Tuna Culture and Tourism Season in Pingtung County - Resource Recycling Coming Together, Resource Recovery Promotion Campaign" on June 6, 2019.
(VIII) Cooperate with the Taiwan Lantern Festival to complete a number of resource recovery related tasks.
VI. Support the implementation of major policies of the EPA
The task team handled the "Promotion of Waste Battery Recovery Competition for Primary Schools of Pingtung County in 2019". In the first round, 26 primary schools participated in the competition, with a total recovery amount of 583.80 kg. In the second round, 21 primary schools participated in the competition, and the total amount recovered was 688.65 kg. The plan announced winners list in accordance with regulations and notified the outstanding schools to receive stationery for rewards.
