With the aim of promoting recycling, the Environmental Protection Bureau, Chiayi City Government, The execution team it regularly conducts counseling and audits of responsible companies, vendors, restricted persons, recycling and processing industries, and privatelyowned recycling companies, education, and promotion of recycling (large events, recycling redemption and law promotion briefings, etc.), assists in setting up subsidies for image renovation of recycling stations within its jurisdiction, executes the circular economy recyclable army and recycling care programs, and conducts program supporting matters, such as writing reports on the results of image improvement, recycling performance, and other tasks related to recycling performance assessment.
The program outcomes include implementing the responsible companies' registration, declaration, payment, and recycling codes counseling operations. Notification of regular (every odd month) active declaration to the companies is divided into three stages. From the statistics made until the end of October, in the first stage, 534 emails were sent to notify the non-declared companies; in the second stage, 316 telephone calls were made to inform the non-declared companies; and in the third stage, 31 on-site auditing and counseling sessions were conducted for the non-declared companies. We actively audited a total of 180 distributors and 372 products inspected, and 36 suspected violations were found, including 20 glass containers, 8 plastic containers, 6 iron containers, and 2 dry batteries. We conducted auditing and discipline work on responsible companies in violation upon the request from the Environmental Protection Administration, such as those who did not register when moving in from (delivering by) other counties and cities, those who did not declare and pay the within deadline and those did not put the recycling signs, with a total of 35 cases (20 cases were not in violation and 15 cases were given a deadline for completion of registration) counseled. We have conducted inverted recycling counseling, auditing operations, and promotion work on vendors. The total number of controlled vendors was 576. With 155 new vendors added, the total number of controlled vendors became 731. Based on the statistics until October, we have made a total of 731 audits, achieving a rate of 100%. Among them, 43 companies were closed and were de-registered from the control list, 15 non-chain companies were de-registered from the control list, 2 did not sell the machines and were de-registered from the control list, 1 moved to other counties/cities and was de-registered from the control list, and 1 duplicate was de-registered from the control list. During the auditing, the relevant companies were very cooperative. They complied with the requirements and did not violate the relevant regulations. Next, we are also responsible for auditing, compiling, and evaluating recycling results and handling the implementation of recycling classification in communities, institutions, schools, and organ izations. Based on the statistics made until October, we have completed auditing 504 communities, 24 institutions, 73 schools, and 16 organizations, with 617 facilities inspected. We also counseled the communities with recycling bins on the detailed classification of the recyclables and selling them independently. There are 24 recycling and processing facilities within the jurisdiction. Among them, 3 of them obtained the registration certificate. We conducted a total of 2 85 on-site auditions. Most of the non-compliance reasons for the recycling vendors are “piles of recyclables on public roads,” “no clear indication of flushing equipment or emergency signs,” “unclear or no clear indication of recyclables classification zoning,” and “dirty floors in recycling yards.” We will continue to counsel operators to complete the improvements. We have not received statements related to the recycling companies since July. Upon being notified of the waste motor vehicles occupying roads, we assisted in handling the inspection work and posted relocation notifications on a total of 851 vehicles. The audit for broken bags is divided into the fixed-point broken bag and broken bag along the route. We have audited fixed-point broken bags in 98 places and broken bags along the route in 72 places, totaling 1,287 broken bags. The opening of the advisory sheet has reached 32 pieces. The non -compliance rate for broken bags is 2.49%. We have audited 239 places for counseling and management on privately-owned recycling companies, including 286 person-times of follow-up inspections. Most of the reasons for the deficiencies are piles on the roadside or excessive piles. We have counseled those with deficiencies to remove and transport the recycling and avoid excessive piles regularly. We hav e matched 19 circular economy recyclable armies to assist communities and villages in recycling. A total of 53 subsidies were provided under the recycling care program. A total of NT$2,781,263 has been spent so far, representing a 93.33% implementation rate of the funds. In the past years, 28 image-renovated recyclable stations were being followed-up and audited. During the on-site auditing, 20 units were properly preserved and used normally, while 8 units had abnormalities, mostly due to damaged consumables or equipment. There are 14 village-based recyclable stations, and a total of 274 sessions have been conducted so far, with 79,306.2 kg of recyclables and 1,278 units of home appliances collected and 9,721 people redeemed. We have held 6 sessions of waste pesticide containers and waste glass recycling tour activities and recycled 958.1 kg of waste pesticide containers and 1,233.4 kg of waste glass bottles, with up to 114 people redeemed. Some locations were easily disposed of with waste glass containers. We strengthen the inspection and cleaning operations in these locations. We have inspected 26 places, with a total of 10 cleaned. We have held 25 sessions of recyclable redemption tour activities or eco-friendly DIY activities, with a total of 1,354 people participating. The concept of resource reuse was conveyed through redemption activities and DIY activities. We organized one large promotional activity to convey the message of plastic reduction, waste reduction, green living, and implementing a waste-free diet with 758 participants. The raw food scrap removal project included the removal of 96,945 kg of tea leaf waste and 52,800 kg of composted vegetable leaves from fruit and vegetable markets. We have audited 598 cases of plastic restriction-controlled persons. Of these, 62 were closed, 95 were re-listed for control, while the remaining 441 complied with the relevant regulations. In addition, no active provision of plastic bags was found. During the on-site auditing, we observed that all stores would take the initiative to remind consumers to bring their own reusable plastic shopping bags. Regarding disposable plastic tableware, we audited 260 companies among 8 industries. We have audited 100 companies for disposable tableware of various materials, and all of them met the regulations. We have audited 107 companies for single-use plastic straws, and all of them met the regulations. We have held 5 sessions of propaganda activities in public kindergartens with 105 students participating. Through the activities, we conveyed the concept of recycling and the knowledge to classify daily recyclable containers. We have collected 1,904.5 metric tons of materials to be reused and recycled from colored waste glass containers and used them in fill constructions of recycling zones. Subsequently, we may suggest formulating regulations or referring to the practices from other counties/cities with good usage rates to enhance the usage rate of recycled materials.
