The three counties (cities) with the lowest recycling rate in 2007 included Chiayi city, Chiayi County, and Yunlin County. The determination of Chiayi County and Chiayi City in self-upgrading is sensed during the consultation. The recycling rate of Chiayi County and Chiayi City is increased significantly after four consultations (the recycling rate of Chiayi County in 2007 was 16.40% and it was up by 5% to 21.20% in May 2009; the recycling rate of Chiayi City was 20.48% in 2007 and it was up by 6% to 26.34% in May 2009). City garbage men advocate recycling while driving garbage truck on the street in Chiayi County to help upgrade garbage recycling. Chiayi City has collected the recycling volume of individuals and community aggressively to improve recycling rate effectively. Propagandas were arranged to encourage the public to cooperate in recycling and to educate the public the sense of environmental protection. However, the garbage production per person per day in this city is 0.72kg that is beyond the national average of 0.52kg. The mandatory garbage sorting of institutes, schools, and communities must be inspected forcefully to improve the performance. Recruits are replaced frequently in Yunlin County. The problem of insufficient manpower for recycling task was reported during the consultation; moreover, local garbage squad does not cooperate fully; therefore, the policy of Environmental Protection Department has not been enforced successfully. Yunlin County is an emigrating county; therefore, garbage volume is minor and garbage recycling is inactive. The project was with a great success in 2008 by combing recycling effort with Taiwan Treasure MaZu activity. The “Taiwan Treasure MaZu for Environmental Protection” is arranged in 2009 and promoting the slogan of “MaZu blesses recycling for environmental protection. Twenty-seven private businesses had donated around 6,000 garbage cans located on the streets of the grand tour and with 52 tons of garbage collected equivalent to 2.6 million 600ml-bottle representing 11 tons more garbage collected comparing to the year before.

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