In recent years, people’s living standards are enhanced along with the flourishing development and the perking up of industry and commerce. It drives relevant consumption and generates huge amount of waste as well as causes subsequent issues related to proper disposal and processing capacity control. Therefore, the article finds out how to transform the mindset of waste disposal from the passive end management in the past to action plans of “source reduction” and “resource recycling” for sustainable use through promoting waste mandatory classification and strengthening recycling. Cooperated with the setup of quantitative goals, it enhances the contribution made by Chiayi City in circular economy as well as energy saving ＆ carbon reduction. The content of the work plan includes implementation of resource recycling, waste source reduction, premium public restroom, and quality environment. The public, institutions and en-terprises, schools, and communities are gathered together to promote source reduction, enhance recycling effectiveness, and unblock circulatory system as well as others.
The outcome of the work plan includes the registration, declaration, payment, and recycling symbol guidance implemented by responsible enterprises. The responsible enterprises then report the status of the voluntary declaration completed by owners regularly (every odd month). It contains three stages. Up to the end of May, the first stage is to send email to notify those owners who fail to complete the declaration. A total number of 566 emails were sent. The second stage is to notify the undeclared owners by phone, and there were 382 telephone calls made. The third stage is to conduct field audit on those who still fail to declare, of which 44 owners received field audit. In terms of auditing dealers, a total number of 170 dealers and 310 items of products were audited. Seventeen cases were related to suspected items that violated regulation, and all of them were not registered, including 24 cases of glass containers, 7 cases of iron containers, and 5 case of plastic container. For the inspection and punishment to the responsible enterprises that violate regulations in failure of registration, failure of on-time declaration and payment, and failure of labeling recycling symbols requested by Environmental Protection Administration in official letters and transferred in (submitted by) other counties and cities, 34 cases were involved and all complete supervision. As for the audit and promotion of reverse recovery carried out by dealers, a total number of 678 dealers were in the control list. Twelve dealers were added to the list, and there were 696 dealers in the control list in total. Up to the end of December, there were 696 dealers audited with a completion rate of 100%. Among them, 22 dealers closed down and were removed from the list, 1 non-chain dealer was relieved to control, and 2 dealers were duplicated and were cancelled. During the audit, all the dealers cooperated well and met regulations. There was no violation found, and the auditing personnel will continue enhancing the inspection on dealers for any violation. In addition, regarding the administrative matters related to auditing, performance collection, and assessment of resource recycling as well as the implementation of resource recycling and classification in communities, institutions, schools, and groups, 502 communities, 25 institutions, 75 schools, and 15 groups completed the audit by the end of May; it was 618 places in total. Communities that have set recycle bins will be supervision to classify the recycled items and sell off them independently. There were 24 companies in the jurisdiction engaged with recycling and disposal businesses, and the accumulated number of on-site audit was 240 cases. Most of the reasons for failure of meeting the regulations were mainly “no clear remarking on showing and rinsing equipment or no emergency sign set” and “the zone of recycled item classification is not clear or no clear sign set”. The supervision will continue until the companies complete improvement. In assisting reporting and inspection of waste motor vehicle occupying roads, 581 vehicles were given a notice for relocation and 209 vehicles were actually relocated. Breaking bags for inspection contain fixed-station inspection and along-the-route inspection. 98 places of the fixed-station inspection and 82 places of the along-the-route inspection were completed for breaking 1334 bags for inspection. Warning tickets were issued to 24 cases, and the failure rate of the broken bags was 1.79%. For the supervision and management of individuals for resource recycling, 240 stations were audited, and 4 of them required re-inspection. The deficiencies were mainly stacking by the road or excessive accumulation. The stations were advised to clear out and dispose regularly as well as avoid accumulation excessively. Nineteen recycling individuals have been match-made to assist communities or villages for resource recycling promotion. 63 individuals were subsidized through resource recycling care program. At the moment, NT$2,194,937 were spent from the budget with a budget implementation rate of 76.08%. 37 resource recycling stations were tracked and audited for image transformation scheme. 29 units were found proper equipment, appropriate storage, and normal operation during the field audit. Four units were found with abnormity, and most of them involved with consumables or equipment damage. There were 15 village resource recycling convenience stations es-tablished so far, and 283 sessions of recycling activities were held. In total, 112,969.51kgs of items and 1,641 sets home appliance and information products were recycled; it was accumulated 5,873 persons for exchange. In the tour activities of waste agriculture container and waste glass recycling, 2,572.3kgs of waste agriculture cans, 4,715kgs of waste glass bottles, and 98kgs of waste gloss bottle for energy drink were recycled; it was accumulated 179 persons for exchange. In the event of reinforced inspection in the location that waste glass containers tend to left to, 40 places were inspected in accumulation; 15 places were cleared up. 13 sessions of touring resource recycled item exchange ac-tivities or environment-friendly DIY activities were held, and there were 603 persons participating in exchange and 1,596 persons participating in promotional activities. The amount of clearance in used tea leaves project recycled 87,290kgs. Chiachuan Fruit and Vegetable Market adopts composting for reutilization and achieved the amount of clearance in 150,600kgs. To implement “Guidelines for Administrative Agencies and Schools to Reduce the Use of Disposable Tableware and Packaged Drinking Water”, 6 sessions of presentation were held with participation of 138 persons. Currently, the registration rate from January to November achieved 100%. Selecting specific areas or shopping areas to supervise business owners providing the service of reusable container lending. It is expected to supervise 30 business owners joining the scheme, and there were 32 so far. We will continue supervising more business owners for their participation. For the evaluation of the implementation date of tea shops not providing disposable plastic drinking cups, a list of 325 tea shops in the jurisdiction was established, and 2 sessions of presentation were held on May 23 and June 1. It was planned to submit to Environmental Protection Administration in August that the implementation date of prohibition is on April 1, 2023. Currently, 2 sessions of unused item recycling and exchange activities were completed. We recycled 500kgs of old clothes and 20 items of old articles, and there were 230 persons participating in the exchange activities. 1,315 persons participated in the notification lucky-draw activities on FB, and the number of reach on FB was 51,663 persons in total. We held 6 sessions of second-hand markets, including 3 sessions of waste-free market and 3 session of second-hand trading market. There were 2,219 persons participating the activities, and we achieved 3,610items of second-hand products to share and exchange without charge as well as 5,431 items of second-hand products trading. In total, there were 9,041 second-hand products reactivated. We implemented office carbon reduction activities and accumulated 14,996 people participating in using recyclable lunch box when ordering meals. It reduced the use of 14,996 disposable boxes effectively. If calculating in 20g per box, it reduced the amount of rubbish in 299, 920g (299.92kgs). The total number of public toilets in the monitoring list was 661 toilets. The verification of correctness of the list of public toilets under monitoring in the jurisdiction was completed in the quarter 1, and the information was updated in the website of Eco-life. 11,147 public toilets were inspected and filed. The average number of public toilets filed for management every month was 5% (included) of the total number of public toilets. In terms of strengthening public toilet maintenance and management, the initial investigation showed 5 units were willing to subsidize armrest installation. It expects to subsidize 40 pieces of armrest (26 for squatting toilets and 14 for sitting toilets). Four quarters of inspection on empty houses and empty lands were completed, including 25 places on the monitoring list by central government and 200 places by local district office. Currently, all tasks have been carried out according to the schedule. We will continue monitoring the implementation of quantifying each task to ensure achieving the goals for annual contact and assessment.
