The execution period of “The Action Project Plan on Promotion of Resource Recovery of Pingtung County in 2020” is from April 16 to December 31, 2020. The resource recycling rate of Pingtung County from January to October, 2020 reached 55.0 %, an increase of 4.8% compared to 2019. The data shows the effectiveness of this plan. As of November 13, all the work items have been completed. The summary of the implementation results is as follows:
1. Handle the establishment, guidance and promotion of the village resource recycling station
According to the statistics from January to October, 2020, the resources recycling amount of the stations in operation was 314.4 tons, an increase of 41% compared to 2020. The total number of participants was 35,367. The 53 village resource recycling stations set up from 2016 to 2020 were conducted for continuous guidance. The task team has completed 168 on-site guiding work in 53 village resource recycling stations. Through the active coaching by the task team and the gradual slowing down of the pandemic, the implementation effectiveness of 23 village resource recycling station has greatly improved. Among the 53 village resource recycling stations, 45 stations of A-level stations increased by 11 stations compared with that in 2019, 8 stations of B-level stations decreased by 4 stations compared to 2019, and 0 stations of C-level stations decreased by 4 stations compared with that in 2019, showing that the overall operational effectiveness has improved compared with last year. The village resource recycling stations complete the report of the monthly resource recycling amounts on-line to the "Village Resource Recycling System" of the Pingtung County Environmental Protection Bureau (PTEPB) before the 10th of each month. Conduct 3 sessions according the regional location to strengthen the promotion of education and training of the village resource recycling stations. Assisted the village resource recycling station to handle waste dry battery recycling and exchange activities, with a recycling amount of 672.5 kg. Coaching to set up additional “Ant Family Welfare Station” in Xingdong Village of Donggang Town, Sanli Village of Ligang Township, and Mili Village of Ligang Township, and operate properly.
2. Strengthen the promotion of resource recycling tasks in the area of off-shore island
(1) Strengthen manpower stationed in Liuqiu Township to implement the promotion of resource recycling tasks, and periodically send personnel to assist in propaganda, sorting, inspection and local communication.
(2) Improve the effectiveness of cleanup and transportation.
(A) Implementation of the mandatory garbage sorting and bag-breaking inspections for homestay operators in Liuqiu Township 102 times, of which 92 times were qualified, with a pass rate of 90% and 10 times failed with a failure rate of 10%. Implementation of bag-breaking inspections for household garbage 120 bags, of which 113 bags were qualified, with a pass rate of 94%, and 7 bags failed with a failure rate of 6%.
(B) Strengthen the resource recovery systems and facilities
The task team inspected homestay operators 70 times, of which 61 operators installed the general garbage bins and the resource recycling facilities, and the labels were complete. Although 7 operators had set up, the labels were unclear, old or even unlabeled, the task team assisted in labeling on-site. The task team assisted to set up an additional resource recycling bin for 2 homestay owners who only set up a general trash bin. Besides, completed the survey of operators that needed to provide the resource recycling facilities, and offered the creative general trash bins and resource recovery bins with local “Welcome King” patterns to 10 homestays.
(C) The task team visited one by one the only 4 individual and bulk trade resource recycling operators in Liuqiu Township, and assisted them to match Taiwan’s recyclers to purchase their recyclables at a more favorable price to stabilize their income. The recycler provides monthly reports to the cleaning squad. According to the data counted to October, 4 individual and bulk trade resource recycling operators have provided 620.781 tons of recyclables to the cleaning squad of Liuqiu Township Office, stabilizing the recycling rate of Liuqiu Township. The recycling rate from January to September of 2010 increased from 47.6% in the previous year to 53.7%.
(D) The task team coached in the maintenance of resource recycling facilities for tourist attractions in Liuqiu Township, and completed 4 locations to assist in the implementation of the update and maintenance of resource recycling labels.
(E) Assist the cleaning squad in the cargo ship transfer planning of recyclables and improve the efficiency of recyclables transfer.
The task team suggests that the recyclables of Liuqiu Township can be contracted and sell in a turnkey way. The Liuqiu Township Office also accepted this proposal to sign a new turnkey contract on May 15 of 2020 with recyclers who originally signed the sub-contracts (Jinshan Environmental Protection Enterprise). The Jinshan Environmental Protection Enterprise also cooperated in clearing up and transporting a large amount of recyclables in Liuqiu Township. The Cleaning Squad of Liuqiu Township carried out a total of 26,320 kg of recyclables (sub-sorted) in March, and a total of 24,080 kg of recyclables (waste paper) in the first half of May. After signing the new contract on May 15 of 2020, 153,986, 119,867, 104,766, 83,646 and 102,730 kg of recyclables (miscellaneous) were cleared in the second half of May, June, July, August and September, respectively. This has greatly improved the overall efficiency of the transfer of recyclables in Liuqiu Township. There were no clearing up operations in October because the clearing budget was running out. The PTEPB has signed a new contract in November, 2020.
3. Carry out the physical composition analysis of general waste before final disposal
After analyzing 20 samples of the physical composition of general waste in the dry and wet seasons, the overall general waste accounted for 60.6%, resource recyclables accounted for 14.6%, and kitchen waste accounted for 24.8%. The results show that the resource recyclables account for a relatively low proportion of the overall waste, indicating that the resource recycling promotion is adequate in Pingtung County, but it is still necessary to continue to strengthen the promotion to reduce the proportion of recyclables in the general waste year by year. The main recyclables included paper, paper tableware, other paper containers, PP (polypropylene) containers, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PS (polystyrene) and glass containers. In addition, the proportion of kitchen waste was relatively high, and the propaganda and enforcement of mandatory sorting inspections should be strengthened to reduce the proportion of kitchen waste in the general waste.
4. Coach the scrapped four-machine vendors to overprint the receipt using the online number-taking system.
The project has completed coaching 257 electronic and electrical vendors, and successfully coached 45 vendors using scrapped-four-machine receipt online number-taking system, and the number of vendors coached meets the assessment goals of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA).
5. Inventory and manage the recycling industry below a certain scale.
(1) Inventory the recycling industry below a certain scale.
The task team worked with the cleaning squad under its jurisdiction to conduct an inventory check on the recycling industry below a certain scale, to record the required information for management, and also to guide the cleaning squad to grasp the amount of recyclables collected by the industry every month. Completed inventory of 115 recycling industry below a certain scale.
(2) Coach the recycling industry which is below a certain scale to implement the facility labeling and education training.
After discussing with the staff of the PTEPB, it was determined that the three companies including Hongbin Enterprise, Guangsheng Resource Recycling, and Rijiu Recycling Company who do not need to register were selected as targets for further inspections and guidance on its compliance to the regulations. In addition, after discussing and confirming with the industry, conduct a full-site diagnosis based on the storage conditions of the on-site recyclables, including maintaining environmental sanitation, assisting in setting up various signs in Chinese of various resource collection area throughout the whole plant, emergency response personnel notice boards and no smoking signs notice boards. Moreover, assist the industry to set up a self-check mechanism. The person in charge and the staff of each company was assembled to handle 1 training session on labor safety and resource recycling. In order to more fully comply with the assessment plan specified by EPA, the task team has provided additional assistance in setting up "planar layout and escape route map", "disaster response organization and the personnel in charge", "response personnel organization chart". The plan recommended that the PTEPB could submit these three companies to the EPA as candidates for on-site re-assessment in Pingtung County. The EPA listed Hongbin Enterprise and Rijiu Recycling Company as the on-site re-assessment sites, and carried out on November 3 of 2020, which was also affirmed by the review committee of EPA.
6. Supervise the sorting, storage and transportation of waste glass containers by the township and municipal cleaning Squad.
The task team performed the 29 supervisions on the sorting, storage and transportation of waste glass containers by the squad of 19 townships, towns or city including Pingtung City, Chaozhou Town, Hengchun Town, Wandan Township, Changzhi Township, Linluo Township, Ligang Township, Gaoshu Township, Wanluan Township, Neipu Township, Zhutian Township, Xinpi Township, Linbian Township , Nanzhou Township, Sandimen Township, Wutai Township, Majia Township, Taiwu Township and Chunri Township. The storage of waste glass containers in various townships, towns and city are divided into three colors, i.e. green, transparent, and brown. They are also divided into three colors to be cleared up by the recyclers. The factory departure weight note record of the waste glass container shall contain at least the name of the executive authority, the name of the recycler, and the name of the waste glass container, color, weight and damage rate.
7. Guide the cleaning squads of all townships (towns, city) in the county to attach waste dry battery recycling bins to the resource recycling vehicles.
The record shows that there are 180 resource recycling vehicles of the cleaning squads in Pingtung County. All 180 resource recycling vehicles have completed the attachment of waste dry battery recycling bins.
8. Handle inter-school resource recycling green campus evaluation.
Completed the evaluation briefing and the planning for the inter-school resource recycling green campus evaluation of universities and colleges, and high schools and vocational high schools. From May 22 to July 16 of 2020, schools were requested to implement improvements based on the contents of the evaluation briefing. Starting from July 16 of 2020, the task team has successively visited schools in need for on-site tutoring. Finally, experts and scholars were invited to serve as reviewer members on September 21 to 23, 2020. In the intercollegiate resource recycling green campus evaluation of universities and colleges, 3 schools are excellent and 3 schools are good. While for high schools and vocational high schools, 8 schools are excellent and 5 schools are good. In the activity held by PTEPB which promote the cup and tableware rental services and "Traceless Diet is Trendy" in Pingtung County, the schools who obtained the excellent and good rating were given the awards and issued a press release.
9. Coach to set up resource recycling station at fishing port and handle the collection and exchange activities of recyclables.
Completed the establishment of resource recycling station at the Shanfu Fishing Port in April, 2020. And starting from May 19 of 2020, the collection and exchange activities are conducted on every Tuesdays and cooperate with the village chief’s designated time. This year, 16 sessions were completed, and a total of 16,894 kg of recyclables were collected, including 9,147 kg of plastic containers, 7,590 kg of glass containers, 29 kg of iron containers, 113 kg of aluminum containers and 15 kg of paper containers. All recyclables collected during the activity are cleared and transported by the Cleaning Squad of Liuqiu Township.
10. Coach the inspection on mandatory garbage sorting and handle promotion on strengthening mandatory garbage sorting.
(1) Guide the enforcement agency to implement mandatory garbage sorting and inspection.
The “Resource Recycling Business Communication Review and Business Personnel Education and Training briefing” was handled through the PTEPB on April 30 this year to guide the enforcement agency in the implementation of mandatory garbage sorting inspection. In addition, the task team also individually coached the chief of the cleaning squad of the township office. After coaching of cleaning squad of the 11 towns and cities where the garbage clearing amount was high in the previous year, the volume of garbage removal per capita per day was reduced from January to September in 2010. The decrease range was from 0.05 to 0.31 kg/day/capita, the resource recycling rate had also increased, the increase range was between 0.2% to 15.5%. It shows the effect of strengthening the implementation of mandatory garbage sorting to reduce the amount of garbage cleared and increase the resource recycling rate.
(2) Completed 10 sessions of the promotion of mandatory garbage sorting.
11. Strengthen the promotion of the reuse of miscellaneous or green waste glass recycled materials (sand)
This year, the cleaning squads of 2 township offices, including Shizi and Changzhi Township, handled the municipal and county (city) environmental protection agencies for resource recycling and storage optimization plans subsidized by EPA. Planning and design has been carried out this year, and the engineering construction will be implemented next year. After guiding the township office by the task team, waste glass recycled materials were included in the planning and design. The Changzhi Township office plans to add some waste glass recycled materials to permeable asphalt concrete (recycled aggregates). While the Shizi Township office plans to use the recycled aggregates in concrete grass-planting bricks and pavement bricks. In addition, Chen Wen-Yu, chairman of the "Pingtung County Liuqiu Township Natural, Humanities and Ecological Tourism Association", used the waste bottles in Liuqiu township to create cups and used them as the promotional items for beach cleaning activity. A total of about 2,500 wine bottles were reused, the recycling amount of waste glass is estimated to be about 1,200 kg.
12. Handle 3 business resource recycling promotion briefings in the north, central and south areas of the industrial zone.
13. Conduct the investigation and guidance operations on setting up resource recycling facilities by catering operators or commercial stalls.
Although 38 of the vendors guided have been used the eco-friendly tableware and no disposable tableware, the task team still guides them to set up resource recycling facilities. The task team has conducted guidance of 52 business operators, of which 11 operators have set up resource recycling facilities and recycling. Some operators have no clear location of the resource recycling facilities or no relevant signs. The task team has assisted in completing the labeling. There are 41 business operators that do not set up resource recycling facilities. The task team implements guidance for business operators to set up and label the recycling facilities and carries out recycling of recyclables.
14. Handle the activities on collection and exchange of resource recyclables.
Completed 2 sessions of pesticide waste container recycling and exchange activities, with a total of 6,360 pesticide waste containers collected. Completed 10 sessions of waste electric fan and waste TV recycling and exchange activities. A total of 411 waste electric fans and 185 waste TVs were collected. Completed 10 sessions of recycling and exchange activities of waste portable computers, waste keyboards, waste computer hosts and waste monitors. A total of 200 waste portable computers, 1,560 waste keyboards, 120 waste computer hosts and 231 waste monitors were collected. Completed 10 sessions of waste dry battery recycling and exchange activities, with a total of 1,130 kg of waste dry batteries collected. Completed 3 sessions of recycling and exchange activities of waste PS container and waste PVC container, a total of 79.5 kg of waste PS containers and 45 kg of waste PVC were collected. Although the recyclables of some people did not meet the redemption standard, the task team still provided an advocacy material to thank for their support. In addition, in order to improve the assessment results of the town and city offices, all collected recyclables were delivered to the local cleaning squad.
