In order to strengthen the effective use of resources and reduce waste generation, the Environmental Protection Administration has announced that recyclable waste items should be divided into two categories: containers and items, subdivided into 13 categories and 33 items, in accordance with Article 15, Paragraph 2 of the Waste Disposal Act. Meanwhile, Taoyuan City has announced additional general waste recycling items. For details, please refer to the announcement of recyclable items.
The public can identify recyclable items by the recycling logo on containers and dry batteries. If it is found that the body, individual packaging or label does not have a recycling logo, please record complete information (sales location, brand, name, place of manufacture, etc.) and report the case by calling the “Resource Recycling Free Service Hotline 0800-085717”
The Environmental Protection Administration has established a subsidy for the recycling and disposal of announced recyclable items to smooth the resource recycling channels. The subsidy is provided to qualified institutions that have obtained legal qualifications in accordance with regulations through economic incentives. As for whether there is a reward for the public’s recycling of resource materials, currently only waste motor vehicles are given recycling rewards, and there are no relevant reward subsidies for other materials. The public can negotiate with recylists and processors according to market mechanisms. Relevant recylist information can be obtained by calling the EPA’s Resource Recycling Free Service Hotline 0800-085717 or visiting the “Resource Recycling Network（https://recycle.epa.gov.tw/ ）”
The resource recycling days and times for each administrative district are different. For details, please check the Taoyuan City Garbage Collection Route Real-time Inquiry System.
Styrofoam cups are recyclable waste announced in accordance with Article 15, Paragraph 2 of the Waste Disposal Act. You can remove the contents and hand them over to the resource recycling truck of our DEPT, community schools or the resource recycling area of the sales industry. If waste sorting is not done properly, a fine of NT$1,200 to NT$6,000 may be imposed in accordance with the Waste Disposal Act.
You can sort and pack the second-hand items with complete and clean appearance and normal function and send them directly to the Taoyuan City Repair Station service location for recycling or inquire at the Taoyuan City Unused Item Reuse and Repair Station. Let your old love become everyone else’s new love and promote the recycling and reuse of resources!
“Mandatory garbage classification” is a mandatory measure adopted by the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan to reduce domestic waste generation, increase resource recycling rate, reduce government waste disposal costs and environmental load. The public is required to sort household waste into three categories: general waste, kitchen waste, and resource waste and dispose of them at designated times and locations. If the public does not sort the garbage into three categories according to regulations, they can be fined NT$1,200 to NT$6,000 in accordance with Article 50 of the Waste Disposal Act.
Through the implementation of mandatory garbage classification, in addition to reducing government waste disposal costs and environmental load, the public can also sell valuable resource waste through garbage sorting to increase their income. It is a good measure that is beneficial to both the government and the public.
To make it convenient for the public to cooperate with the mandatory garbage classification work, Taoyuan citizens, when discharging the garbage, only need to divide the garbage into three major categories: general waste, resource waste, and kitchen waste, without further classification.。
Waste dry batteries and waste fluorescent tubes (straight tubes) are small in size, easy to break and contain harmful substances, while disposable tableware is in contact with food. If mixed with other resource waste, they may contaminate other resource waste and increase the subsequent processing burden. Therefore, please separate waste dry batteries, waste fluorescent tubes (straight tubes) and disposable tableware from other resources for collection.
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If paper is stained with oil and/or plastic film and if they are carbon paper, wax paper, plastic glossy wastepaper, synthetic paper mixed with other components such as metal, used toilet paper, and diapers, they are not recyclable and should not be mixed into recyclable waste paper. Instead, they should be treated as general waste.
Wastepaper containers and general paper resources have different recycling methods, flows and uses, so they need to be recycled separately:
Paper containers (such as paper tableware, paper cups, paper box packs or foil packs) are items that should be recycled according to the announcement of the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan. Due to the manufacturing process, they are waxed or coated with plastic film or aluminum foil. If recycled with general wastepaper, most of them will become waste for the paper mill to process. Please do not mix wastepaper containers with old newspapers or other wastepaper for recycling.
After using the paper containers, remove the food residues first and clean or wipe them simply to avoid producing odors or breeding mosquitoes. Then recycle them as a container type to facilitate processing by a professional factory to regenerate pulp and plastic.
Waste CDs and mobile phones can be handed over to the cleaning team’s resource recycling truck for recycling.
What should I do with a broken fluorescent tube? Many people will break it and then wrap it up in newspaper and throw it away.
In fact, when a fluorescent tube is broken, most of the mercury vapor in the tube has already spilled out. Once it enters the body through the respiratory tract, it will remain in the body and harm the nervous system.
Therefore, if the public has waste fluorescent tubes, please keep them intact and hand them over to the local government’s cleaning team’s resource recycling truck, registered qualified recylists or fluorescent tube dealers for reverse recycling, so that waste fluorescent tubes can be recycled and reused to avoid pollution and hazards caused by mercury and phosphors contained in fluorescent tubes.
A No. 1 battery rotting in the soil can make 1 square meter of soil permanently lose its value; a button battery (flat) can make 600 tons of water undrinkable, which is equivalent to a person’s lifetime water consumption.
If waste batteries are mixed with household garbage and landfilled together, the mercury and heavy metal substances that seep out will penetrate the soil and pollute groundwater, and then enter fish bodies and crops, indirectly threatening human health. Of the five substances that pose the greatest threat to the natural environment, three are contained in batteries: mercury, lead, and cadmium.
In order to reduce the harm of waste batteries to the environment and our own health, please properly classify and recycle waste batteries at home, and put them into waste battery recycling bins set up in nearby supermarket chains, supermarkets, hypermarkets, drugstores and other locations. Alternatively, you can ask your child to recycle them at school. A small action will bring great blessings to mankind!
