The execution period of " A Plan on Resource Recycling Work of Pingtung County in 2023” is from January 1 to December 31, 2023. As of November 6 of 2023, each work item is executed in accordance with the contract, and the quantitative goals of each work item are completed. The execution results are summarized as follows:
According to the assessment plan of the Ministry of Environment for 2023, the preliminary assessment plan for the performance evaluation of resource recycling work conducted by the executive agency of Pingtung County has been completed. Two business exchange meetings were held to explain the key points and the needed-to-be cooperated environmental protection affairs of this year's preliminary assessment to the cleaning squads of 33 townships and municipal offices.
In order to understand the resource recycling results of each township and city in the county, this plan has completed the guidance of 32 township and municipal cleaning squads to sign resource recycling bidding contracts, and conducted a survey on the resource recycling sales volume and sales amount of the township and municipal cleaning squads. During the period from January to September in 2023, the resource recycling sales volume of 33 township and municipal cleaning squads was 8,783,276 kilograms, with a total sales income of NT$ 7,555,134, and an average sales price of about 0.9 NT$/kg. Among them, the sales price of recyclables collected in the itemized subcontracting method is generally higher than the sales price of the recyclables collected through turnkey or partial turnkey approach. The amount of recycled and reused foam plastic used for packaging in each cleaning squad is also collected every month. From January to September of 2023, the total recycled foam plastic used for packaging by the cleaning squads in each township and city totaled 49,566.6 kilograms, the total outsourced cleaning volume totaled 43,628.0 kilograms, and the total reused volume totaled 38,117.0 kilograms. The task team surveyed the amount of scrap tires pile up in storage sites and assisted in their removal. From January to September, the task team assisted 18 townships and cities in clearing and transporting scrap tires, with a total of 82 vehicle trips and 57 vehicle trips to the treatment plant, a total of 290,270 kilograms of waste tires were removed and processed.
In addition, an inventory operation of resource recycling storage sites in various cleaning squads was carried out. There was 1 Class A resource recycling storage site, a total of 18 Class B sites, a total of 9 Class C sites, and a total of 4 Class D sites. In order to improve the environmental friendly and high-quality image of resource recycling storage sites, the resource recycling storage sites in Kanding Township, Linluo Township and Wutai Township were selected for image renovation this year. The image renovation includes the design and production of emergency response contact unit boards, emergency response personnel organization charts, disaster response organization and personnel management boards, storage site layout and escape route signage, resource recycling storage sorting signs, and relevant promotional canvases on resource recycling. Promotional slogans and posters are also posted to improve the signage and beautify the environment of the resource recycling storage site. In terms of resource recycling vehicles, the task team also completed guidance on setting up lighting source recycling equipment for 179 resource recycling vehicles of cleaning squads. In addition, the three townships that are willing to set up solar photovoltaic facilities in resource recycling storage sites include Chaozhou Town, Jiadong Township and Checheng Township. Currently, the land of resource recycling storage sites in Chaozhou Town is owned by the county government, and it is necessary to obtain the land use rights. Jiadong Township and Checheng Township are willing to set up, but they need to wait for the confirmation and consent of the land used for the resource recycling storage site.
In order to improve the effectiveness of waste reduction and resource recycling in the county, this plan actively promotes various resource recycling related tasks, including continuing to provide guidance on the operation of 53 village resource recycling stations, completing 3 educational training sessions for volunteers of recycling stations, completed 20 publicity and briefing sessions on community source reduction and resource recycling, maintained the operation of resource recycling stations at fishing port, completed 63 resource recycling related publicity activities and briefings, completed 34 resource recycling related exchange activities, assisted in matching 20 self-employed individuals entered into community for resource recycling services, and 1,011 release on media for resource recycling promotion to strengthen the public to access environmental information, so that the public would be perceived the promotion of policies related to waste reduction and resource recycling, and implement environmental protection actions.
The execution period of this plan is from March 1 to December 31, 2023. As of November 10, each work item is executed in accordance with the contract, and the quantitative goals of each work item are completed. The task team also has cooperated with the implementation of major policies of the Ministry of Environment (MOENV) and affairs assigned by the Environmental Protection Bureau.
This year, the Wandan Night Market has been successfully promoted to become an environmentally friendly night market, including coaching 10 catering service operators not to use disposable tableware, subsidizing the purchase of reusable tableware such as chopsticks, spoons, bowls and cups according to the needs of the stores, coaching 40 stall traders not to provide free plastic bags for shopping, and setting up 3 resource recycling facilities, and conducting night market inspections to enhance the image of the environmentally friendly night market. The task team also organized a source reduction promotion event to encourage the public to bring their own reusable tableware responding to environmental protection. In terms of inspection and guidance operation, 71 inspections of responsible operators were completed, including 43 inspections of unregistered responsible operators, 1 inspection of unmarked recycling signs, and 27 inspections of responsible operators who failed to declare and pay on time, of which 16 cases were proactive inspections by Pingtung County, which have reached the assessment target of 8 cases set by the Ministry of Environment. Conducted 180 inspections on vendors that should set up resource recycling facilities, of which 12 were found to have failed to meet the regulations and were provided with on-site coaching and completed improvement. The task team also provided guidance to 82 electronic and electrical appliance vendors to use online number-taking system and printing of serial receipts, and 298 vendors in the county used online number-taking system and printing. The number of vendors coached meets the assessment goals, 43 venders, of the MOENV.
In terms of the recycling and processing industry, a total of 262 inspections to registered recycling and processing industry have been completed, and 194 inspections to 114 recycling and processing industry listed have been completed. Currently, one registered recycling and processing industry operator has found a drawback of not to set up emergency shower equipment. For the listed recycling industry, 44 drawbacks has found for failure to regularly disinfect the environment and record, 2 drawbacks for fire extinguishers expired, and 1 drawback for failure to post “no smoking” signs, all of which have coached the industry for improvement. A total of 120 vendors that should set up paper tableware recycling facilities have been inspected. Among them, 37 have been removed from the list or are not in the list, and 3 have been newly added to the list. According to the inspection results, a total of 83 vendors were continuously listed and newly listed. In response to strengthen the paper tableware management policy set by the MOENV, the inspections also investigated whether the paper tableware used by the vendors had the original source mark and the source of the goods. Among the 208 vendors inspected, 1 paper tableware used in the business did not have the original source mark. In this case, on-site coaching the operator should purchase paper tableware that complies with regulations and has the correct source mark on it.
From January to September in 2023, the average reporting rate for source reduction declarations by schools and government agencies in this county was 95.75%. Each unit held a total of 7,439 meetings, used a total of 78,700 eco-friendly lunch boxes, and reduced the use of packaged water or paper cups by 240,449 pieces. In terms of take-out, a total of 34,089 meals were provided in non-plastic packaging. The total estimated waste reduction amount were 3,230.7 kg and carbon reduction of 6,655.3 kgCO2e. In order to continue to promote schools and government agencies to reduce the use of disposable tableware and packaged drinking water, this project has completed 3 publicity briefings and activities to promote the participation of the private sectors, and actively guided local community gathering bases when holding activities to serve meals using reusable containers, reduce the generation of disposable product waste. The task team also successfully provided guidance to two businesses in the Pingnan Industrial Park to adopt operational guidelines and use reusable containers to serve meals during meetings, trainings, activities, and daily employee meals. It is estimated that this can reduce the number of disposable paper containers by approximately 109,500 and 13,050 per year for each of two businesses. The two businesses will become a leader in the implementation of source reduction actions for businesses in the park, and play a leading role in source waste reduction. Catering operators are also the key targets for guidance. This year, 88 catering operators have been coached to provide meal services in reusable containers. There are currently 130 catering operators in Pingtung County that provide this service. And 11 catering operators have been successfully coached to provide take-out service in reusable containers. The list of operators has been logged on the website of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Pingtung County Government to reveal relevant information, and "Pingtung County Reusable Container Food Service" stickers are posted at the operating stores to facilitate public inquiry and identification.
In terms of garbage sorting bag-breaking inspection, a total of 95 bag-breaking operations (2,116 bags) were carried out. The administrative areas where bag-breaking inspections were carried out including Pingtung City, Neipu Township and Wandan Township, with an average pass rate of 66.4%. An analysis of the physical composition of general waste was also performed on the bag-breaking inspection route. The results showed that the proportion of general waste in the three batches of analyzed samples in the first quarter was 61.6%, resource recyclables accounted for 11.8%, and food waste accounted for 26.6%; for the three batches in the second quarter, the proportion of general waste in the analyzed samples was 65.8%, resource recyclables accounted for 5.9%, and food waste accounted for 28.3%; the proportion of general waste in the three batches of analyzed samples in the third quarter was 70.3%, resource recyclables accounted for 9.8%, and food waste accounted for 19.9%; the proportion of general waste in the three batch of analyzed samples in the fourth quarter was 78.5%, resource recyclables accounted for 8.4%, and food waste accounted for 13.1%, indicating that resource recycling propaganda was properly promoted. The proportion of general waste in the fourth quarter was higher than that in the first quarter. increased by approximately 16.9%, the proportion of resource recyclables decreased by approximately 3.4%, and the proportion of food waste decreased by approximately 13.5%. However, it is still necessary to continue to strengthen publicity in order to continuously reduce the proportion of recyclables in garbage. The main recyclables collected include paper tableware, carton packages, paper, PP containers, PS (styrofoam) and glass containers.
In order to promote the replacement of traditional lighting sources in the county, a total of 337 public and private schools/agencies/military camps/public places (halls) have completed a survey on the use of traditional lighting sources. A total of 140 places have been fully replaced with LED lighting sources. There are 171 places which have not yet fully replaced with LED lighting sources, but they are willing to replace or have already made replacement plans. And 26 places are not willing to completely replace with LEDs. The reasons for the unwillingness to replace with LEDs are that the original lighting sources are in good condition, have insufficient funds, the buildings will be rebuilt, and the light source has a special purpose and is used infrequently, or there is no suitable model, and the installation location is difficult to be replaced.
In order to improve the benefits of resource recycling, this plan set up a smart bottle collecting machine at Carrefour Xinping Store in Pingtung City. As of October 31, a total of 6,798 PET bottles, 2,329 hand-cranked beverage cups and 1,585 aluminum cans have been collected. In addition, to expand the public's use of smart recycling machines, a special "Summer Recycling Fun, You Recycle, I Increase the Reward" campaign was held. On average, approximately 1,233 PET bottles and 803 batteries were collected on each campaign day, and a total of 19,723 PET bottles and 12,842 batteries were recycled during the campaign period. To encourage the public to make more use of smart recycling machines and enjoy smart recycling services that are easy to do environmentally friendly.
