A Plan on Resource Recycling Work of Pingtung County in 2022
Abstract
The execution period of " A Plan on Resource Recycling Work of Pingtung County in 202” is from January 1 to December 31, 2022. The resource recycling rate of Pingtung County was 55.7% as of October in 2022, which was 0.8% lower than the 56.5% in 2021. The reduction rate of general waste volume generated is 1.5%. As of November 9 of 2022, all the work items have been completed. The summary of the implementation results is as follows.
The preliminary assessment plan for the performance evaluation of resource recycling work conducted by the executive agency of Pingtung County has been completed. According to the recycling rate in 2020, 5 townships, towns, and cities with the lowest recycling rate were coached, including Shi-Zi Township, Neipu Township, Wutai Township, Gaoshu Township, and Donggang Town. Analyze the factors that cause the low amount of resource recycling per person per day, and guide the Township Office to strengthen waste reduction and resource recycling work. Coach 33 township (town, city) cleaning squads to formulate a complete annual recyclables auction contract. Complete to guide the Township Offices should formulate a complete annual recyclables auction contract for each recycling item or propose that the subsequent recycling or recovery of recyclables are smooth and no piling up. In addition, the Offices, implemented the subcontract for each recycling item, has already signed the contract, the task team guides the 17 Township Offices and municipal Office to sign a supplementary agreement with the cooperative recycler to ensure the integrity of the contract. Completed 2 sessions of resource recycling professional work exchange review and professional personnel education and training. The key points of the meeting included work descriptions related to improving the resource recycling rate and the implementation focus of the primary assessment plan for the performance evaluation of resource recycling work of the executive agency.
Complete the setting of 20 demonstration community recycling stations. In addition, 52 publicity briefing sessions on the sorting of community resource recycling were completed. Promoted the training of community resource recycling seed teachers, and tutored 27 seed teachers to complete 29 sessions of publicity.
Carry out key management, inspection and banning work on resource recycling responsible operators, and complete a total of 803 cases. Conduct the inspection and banning tasks of the 13 major industry vendors who should be set up the resource recycling facilities. A total of 310 cases were completed, 18 of which did not meet the regulations. They all completed the improvements on the spot after guidance. Perform 122 times of management inspections and guidance for the vendors included in the waste four-machine recycling system, 63 of which were not in compliance with the regulations. They all completed the improvements on the spot after guidance. A total of 59 business or 209 inspections was carried out for the recyclable waste recyclers, of which there were 12 violations. A total of 12 business or 46 inspections was performed for the recyclable waste disposal business.
The task team perform 2 recycling stations, which are reported and need image transformation urgently, in 2 townships, including Yanpu Township and Changzhi Township. A total of 15 self-employed individuals enter community for resource recycling service. Completed a total of 465 times of checks and reports of waste motor vehicles including 409 times of vehicles, 15 times of trucks, and 41 times of motorcycles.
In terms of resource recycling advocacy work, 38 resource recycling publicity activities and briefing sessions have been completed. Cooperate with the press release schedule of Environmental Protection Bureau and has completed 659 news items to strengthen the public's access to environmental protection information. Completed the guidance of 2 large-scale temple fairs to strengthen resource recycling, set up a green broom volunteer team, and matched self-employed individuals to assist resource sorting and recycling. Assist all executive agencies in Pingtung County to complete the preliminary evaluation of the annual performance assessment of the EPA.
The Action Project Plan on Promotion of Resource Recycling of Pingtung County in 2022
Abstract
The task team executes “The Action Project Plan on Promotion of Resource Recycling of Pingtung County in 2022.” The execution period is from February 1 to December 31, 2022. The resource recycling rate of Pingtung County was 55.7% as of October in 2022, which was 0.8% lower than the 56.5% in 2021. The reduction rate of general waste volume generated is 1.5%. As of November 12, all the work items have been completed. The summary of the implementation results is as follows.
Carried out bag-breaking inspections for mandatory garbage sorting, and completed 165 inspections in 5 townships, towns and city including Pingtung City, Chaozhou Town, Donggang Town, Wandan Township, and Neipu Township. The number of garbage bags inspected was 1,968, and the overall compliance rate reached 77.5%.
Carry out the operation and guidance of resource recycling stations in villages, continue to provide coach for 53 resource recycling stations in villages set up from 2016 to 2020, and complete 167 times on-site coach. In addition, considering the continuous operation of the resource recycling stations, the task team provides some daily necessities with those purchased by the resource recycling stations in villages for exchange. Daily necessities were distributed to 53 resource recycling stations in villages, including 34,232 packs of eco-friendly toilet paper, 900 bottles of eco-friendly laundry detergent, and 3,007 bottles of eco-friendly dishwashing liquid, to encourage them to improve operational efficiency and achieve sustainable management. Data collected from January to October of 2022, the recycling amount of resource recycling stations in operation was 297,024 kilograms, and the amount of sale was NT$873,770. The number of participants was 7,250 person-times. Guiding the resource recycling station in each village to complete the report on the website of the resource recycling amount in the previous month before the 10th of each month. Completed to handle 3 sessions of education and training of the resource recycling stations in villages. In each session, the village chief and cadres of the resource recycling stations in villages, and local cleaning squads were invited to participate. Moreover, in order to enhance the willingness of the villagers to collect waste dry batteries and exchange them, the resource recycling station in the villages were instructed to set the resource recycling and exchange day as the waste dry battery recycling day, and the recycling volume of waste dry batteries reached 576 kg. Completed the handling of 20 sessions of garbage reduction and resource recycling publicity briefings. Completed the guidance for joint sale of recyclables of 6 adjacent village resource recycling stations in Yanpu Township to the Ci-Li recycler, and signed a letter of agreement with the recycler, and coached the recycler to purchase recyclables from the village resource recycling stations with a price higher than the market price, to increase the income of resource recycling stations. The average joint selling price per kilogram of the 6 stations from June to October 2022 was NT$4.70, an increase of NT$0.35 compared with the average sale price of NT$4.35 per kilogram to sell separately of the 6 stations in 2021.
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. Implementation of the mandatory garbage sorting and bag-breaking inspections for homestay operators 100 times, of which 73 times were qualified with a pass rate of 73% and 27 times failed with a failure rate of 27%. In the bag-breaking inspections for household garbage, 105 bags were checked, 83 of which were qualified, with a pass rate of 79%, and 22 bags unqualified with a failure rate of 21%. The task team inspected homestay operators 82 times, of which 81 operators installed the general garbage bins and the resource recycling facilities, and the labels were complete. Only one homestay operator set up an ordinary trash can. In addition, the task team coaches and matches recyclers in Taiwan Island to purchase the recyclables of self-employed and bulk trade resource recycling operators in Liuqiu Township at a more favorable price. The Township Office also prepares its own budget to provide subsidies. As of October, 4 self-employed and bulk trade resource recycling operators have provided 708.6 tons of recyclables. Conducted a survey on the current situation of resource recycling facilities in 12 tourist attractions in Liuqiu Township and guided the Township Office to make improvements. Assist the Liuqiu Township Office to investigate and evaluate the baseline data of the township's monthly resource recycling volume and the total resource recycling volume cleared and transported back to Taiwan Island in 2022. The average monthly resource recycling volume of Liuqiu Township is estimated to be about 208 metric tons, of which plastic containers and paper containers are recycled about 42.5 and 5.1 metric tons per month, respectively.
Inventory the recycling industry below a certain scale in Pingtung County and list it (including the name of the operator, the contact information of the person in charge, the address of the recycling site (land number), GPS coordinates, area, recycling items, etc.) and report it to the Environmental Protection Bureau. And inspected 256 recyclable waste recycling businesses below a certain scale within the jurisdiction of Pingtung County.
Checked the resource recycling vehicle information of the cleaning squads of township and municipal offices in Pingtung County. There are 187 resource recycling vehicles in total. After guidance, all of them have completed the installation of waste lighting source storage facilities.
Completed the establishment of the Yifeng Fishing Port Recycling Station in Jiadong Township and handled 15 sessions of exchange activities of recyclables. The families of crew and fishermen at the local fishing port participated enthusiastically. All the recyclables collected in the activities were sold and recovered by the community. In addition, 2 waste container recycling publicity activities were held.
The “Resource Recycling Business Communication Review and Business Personnel Education and Training briefing” was held through the PTEPB 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 and municipal office. Completed 8 publicity briefing sessions and 2 activities of mandatory garbage sorting.
Before the end of March 2022, the establishment of a list of vendors in Pingtung County that should set up paper tableware recycling facilities on the "Resource Recycling Management Information System" had been completed, including 143 vendors. After the inventory of this year, 43 operators have been removed from the managed list due to the reasons, including 5 that switched to eco-friendly tableware, 33 that changed not to provide dine-in service, 5 that have ceased operations, and the other 100 of the operators in the list have completed the installation of paper tableware recycling facilities. It is estimated that the 100 businesses in the managed list can recycle about 11,970 kg of paper tableware every year. In addition, the filming of the "Paper Tableware Recycling, "Clear, Separate, and Stack", Resource Recycling and Tidy" promotional video was completed.
Completed 7 sessions of recycling and exchange activities of waste portable computer, waste keyboard, and waste monitor. And completed 7, 6, 11, and 3 sessions of recycling and exchange activities of waste electric fan, waste drink glass bottle, waste pesticide container, and waste PS/PLA container, respectively.
Combined with township and municipal offices, village resource recycling stations, colleges and universities, Carrefour Hypermarket and community buildings within the jurisdiction of Pingtung County, the one-month activity, waste dry battery recycling month, on "recycling dry batteries and drawing big prizes" was held in September, and the amount of recycled waste dry battery was 2,535 kg in total.
Four physical stations within the jurisdiction of Pingtung County has been added on the "National Unused Treasure Map" established by the EPA, making a total of 88 sites, in term of the service types, of which 28 are buying and selling sites, 53 are donation sites, and 7 are recycling stations. And completed the registration of 5 second-hand exchange websites belonging to 5 colleges and universities in the jurisdiction, in order to continue the value of second-hand goods and reduce the waste of resources. Completed the establishment of a fixed-point, regular period and regular time second-hand goods market, "Come and Go to Fun Second-hand Goods Exchange Market", in the I/o studio in Pingtung County. At least one second-hand goods exchange event is held every month, and the time of each event is from 14:00 to 18:30 in the afternoon. And recruit at least 20 second-hand goods vendors each time. This year, the task team has completed 10 "Come and Go to Fun Second-hand Goods Exchange Market" activities, with a total of about 9,230 participants and about 4,439 second-hand items for exchange/trade. In conjunction with the activity of Pingtung County Government, the "Come and Go to Fun Love Old Goods for Zero Waste" second-hand goods exchange market activity was completed on 27 of August. It is estimated that about 10,000 people participated in the second-hand goods exchange market activity, and about 1,850 second-hand goods continued their life cycle to achieve the purpose of source reduction and recycling.
Set up "be reluctant to part from the old clothes" all-brand old clothes recycling stations in two locations including Pingtung Store and Xinping Store of Carrefour Hypermarket. The recycled old clothes obtained from the "Come and Go to Fun Second-hand Goods Exchange Market" activity and the promotion of "be reluctant to part from the old clothes" all-brand old clothes recycling stations, are matched with Tzu Chi Foundation Pingtung to perform the recycling and transportation of old clothes. The amount of old clothes recycled this year is about 5 metric tons, which is about 12,500 pieces at 400 grams per piece of used clothes.
Conduct a survey every 2 weeks to grasp the number of scrap tires stored in each Township and Municipal Office every month. The survey focuses on the amount of tires piled up, the status of signing a recycling and clearing contract, the entrusted volume in contract, the entrusted recycling industry, and the processing plant delivered by the recycler, and clearance volume per month, etc. This year, according to the current situation of the scrap tire storage site of the cleaning squad of the Township and Municipal Office, and the actual needs of the cleaning squad to clear and transport the scrap tires, a total of 95 vehicle trips were dispatched to 20 township and municipal offices to clear and transport the scrap tires, of which 56 vehicle trips into the processing plant. A total of 297,760 kg of scrap tires were cleared and processed.
