Green Island is situated at the South-East side of Taiwan. It covers 15 km2 of land with a population of 3,026 habitants as of 2007. With its multiplicity of ecology, there are almost 340,000 tourists in 2007. In terms of waste treatment, approximately 2,462 ton municipal solid waste is collected from habitants and tourists by local government. The municipal waste is disposed in sanitary landfill near Haisenping. Besides, there are 524 ton recyclables collected by local recycling companies and transported to Fugang Fishery Harbor in Taitung, Taiwan. Lan Yu is an island covering 46 km2 and is at a distance of 90 km to Taitung. The population of Lanyu is 3,950 in2007. And the number of its tourists is 57,000 in 2007. There are approximately 708 ton municipal solid waste and 336.6 ton recyclables collected by local government and local recycling companies. The municipal waste is sent to sanitary landfill and the recycles is transported to Fugang Fishery Harbor in Taitung. As off-shore islands with sparse population, the main source of waste and recyclables in Green Island and Lan Yu are as a result of a large number of tourists. For this reason, recycling operation to be put into effect by tourists and recyclables collection to be carried out by local recycling companies are significant works for local government in Island. Therefore the most important measures for promoting zero waste are as follows: waste sorting of tourists, improving subsidiary methods, as well as reducing transport and recycling cost.

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