This project promotes executive agency to strengthen the performance evaluation of resource recycling as requested by the Environmental Protection Administration. According to the statistics up to November 20, 2020, a score of 154.21points was received, achieving a resource recycling rate of 59.66%. In terms of the meetings, 11 review meetings for the commissioned projects and 8 review meetings for promoting resource recycling work by the squadron have been completed. With regards to the promotional activities, 10 sessions of resource recycling promotions carried out by fishing harbor advertising vehicles and 38sessions of promotional/exchange activities for setting up permanent resource recycling stations at Yongan and Zhuwei Fishing Harbors have been completed, with a total of 2700persons participating in the events; 47persons engaged in the exchange activities; and 929.6kg of materials being recycled. In addition, 42 sessions of resource recycling promotional activities in collaboration with enterprises; stores; as well as schools, and 7sessions of resource recycling promotional activities for new immigrants or foreign workers were conducted, with a total of 4,402persons participating in the events. Moreover, one resource recycling benchmarking and field learning activity for universities, colleges and high schools were conducted respectively, allowing teachers to visit schools with outstanding resource recycling performance to exchange and share experience. For checking and inspection, three inspections on the resource recycling data and reports of the 13-districtsquadrons, and 11 inspections on the maintenance status of fishing harbor resource recycling facilities were completed, assisting the Division to get hold of the resource recycling performance in Taoyuan and the status of the fishing harbor recycling locations. In terms of organizing the resource recycling competition, inter-school resource recycling competitions between 35 high schools and 17colleges/universities were conducted, with a total of 9 universities and 18 high(vocational) schools receiving the rewards. Furthermore, inter-school competitions in the recycling of waste batteries and information technology products for elementary and middle schools were organized. A total of 92elementary and middle schools participated in the events, and 1322kg of waste items such as dry batteries, portable computers, and keyboards were recycled. For the submission of the results required for the assessment conducted by the Environmental Protection Administration, all items were submitted within the specified date, such as the summary table for the harbor resource recycling survey in Q1;Q2; and Q3, the implementation results of general waste reduction measures in the first half of the year, and other related resource recycling results. With regards to other assisting work, 56news on resource recycling and waste reutilization activities and competitions in Taoyuan, and 71news on related competitions in other counties and cities were collected and summarized, assisting the Divisionin completing the 2019 Environmental Protection Administration review meeting. The 2020 on-site audit helped strengthen the collecting and cleaning operations of pesticide waste containers and waste packaging bags in the Fuxing District, and the results of the operations were reported. The composition analysis of the 4 truck-load of recycled wastes was conducted, and the results were reported, serving as a reference for improving the resource recycling method in the future. Moreover, the 2021 waste reduction and resource recycling performance evaluation plans for the squadron of each district as well as the 2021 resource recycling "priority" tasks and targets are determined to assist the Division in achieving the 2021 assessment goals as required by the Environmental Protection Administration. In the aspect of innovation, the resource recycling results of Taoyuan were compiled to produce a promotional short film for resource recycling, promoting related measures to the public through media broadcasts. In collaboration with the Taoyuan MRT, the resource recycling short film was broadcasted inside the Taoyuan MRT stations and MRT cars, reaching a total of 930,000people. In addition, by collaborating with tour bus association, promotion of resource recycling was conducted on tour buses to introduce resource recycling and environmental protection related measures to the tourists, with a total of 1,961persons participating in the events. Following the 2019 survey of innovative recycling measures in schools, the survey on mis-classification in recycling for 10 colleges/universities was conducted this year. The rate of mis-classification ranged from the lowest of 0.64% to the highest of 17.48%, with paper container as the major item of mis-classification in schools. The survey results were provided to schools, and assistance in strengthening the promotion of paper container recycling was provided.

Resource Recycling, Waste Reduction, Recycle advocacy