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General Waste Management Section

About this section

  • General Waste Management Unit:

Order waste disposal regulations and interpretation, general waste recycling, clearance, planning and execution of the processing, the announcement of the cleared areas designated municipalities. General Waste disposal fees levied planning, setting, announcement and implementation of recyclable waste, kitchen waste and a huge multi-reuse, recycling and decorating waste removal, trash mandatory classification, source reduction, image transformation.

  • Resource Recycling Unit:

Promote recycling, kitchen waste, huge waste, repair and decorating waste, environmental education place.
1. Promote recycling and source reduction education advocacy work
2. Promote kitchen waste recycling work
3. Promote huge waste recycling work
4. Promote repair and decorating waste recycling
5. Handle environmental education park operations management and second-hand furniture auction
6. Promote Blue-Economy

  • Treatment Equipment Maintenance Sub-division:

Waste-to-Energy (Incineration) Plant planning, landfill, Leachate Treatment Plant, Wan-Li night soil Treatment Plant and operation management.

Achievements of this section

1. Source minimization and resource recycling
(1) The recycling rate of Tainan city reached 45.83% in 2015, and the municipal solid waste declined to 0.373 kg per capita per day. The kitchen waste recycling rate also reached 11.16%. Total waste: 622,117 tons in 2015 (increase of ~10,000 tons from 2014). Kitchen waste recycling rate decreased due to increased waste.

Recycling rate
(2) Explanation sessions for resource recycling: 126 sessions, 107,113 participants.
Recycling education
(3) Kitchen Waste Composting
a. 16,624 households composted kitchen waste in 2015 (+1,064 from previous year).
b. Promotion events: 49; household visits: 1,231.
c. 11 explanation sessions held; 1,261 participants; 124 borrowed compost cans.
d. 10 compost sites built in 2015; total: 21 schools, 6 associations, 3 villages.
e. “Shang-chieh fertilizer” sold in 20kg/3kg packages at 8 locations; 97,728 tons sold, NTD 568,700.
(4) Environmental Education Park auctioned 125 bikes, 5,099 furniture; income NT$2,557,359.
(5) Community Recycling Station Transformation
a. 15 suppliers assisted communities with waste sorting.
Community recycling
b. 13 local circulation systems completed (communities, buildings, villages).
Circulation system
(6) Management of Recyclers
a. Inspected 72 companies, 282 times; 19 found deficient, now corrected; 4 punished.
b. Inspected 131 antiquities suppliers 307 times; 35 required improvement; 9 punished; all corrected.
Inspection
(7) Source waste reduction & recyclable waste inspection
a. 1,094 dry battery businesses inspected — no violations.
b. 73 suppliers checked for excessive packaging; 4 violated.
c. Plastic tray reduction by supermarkets: 87.19% (34,707 kg).
d. Inspected 396 companies/schools for plastic bags/tableware; 1 punished; all corrected.
e. Inspected 2,845 beverage shops — all compliant.
f. Inspected 1,066 Styrofoam-restricted shops; 6 required improvement.
g. Inspected 3,522 small restaurants’ waste oil flow; 22 required improvement.
Waste oil inspection

(8) Enterprises responsible for recycling
a. Inspected 407 enterprises; 227 unregistered, 85 failed declarations, 95 missing labels — all corrected.
b. Inspected 1,205 vendors; 91 missing recycling labels — corrected on-site.

Vendor inspection

(9) Waste Cooking Oil Management
a. Inspected 3,287 businesses; 3 required improvement.
b. Issued 159 permits; 214 inspections; 3 improvements required.
c. Established traceability database; 275 businesses regularly report.

Cooking oil database

(10) Dengue Fever Management
a. Inspected 1,426 recycling enterprises — 40 fined.
b. Inspected 3,523 households — 12 fined.
c. Purchased 30,746 kg recyclables from 12 households for NT 31,952.

Dengue inspection

2. Operation performances of Incinerator Plant
• Tainan: 221,730 tons
• Yongkang: 293,470 tons
Emission, wastewater, noise, and ash treatment all met standards.

Incinerator data

3. Leachate treatment plant operation
Chenxi: 122,012 tons influent, 48,751 tons effluent
Anding: 145,982.3 tons influent, 137,682.6 tons effluent
Night soil: 52,365.9 tons total

Leachate plant

4. Bottom Ash Recycling
Total: 41,313 tons; Recycled: 36,295 tons; Sold: 35,490.74 tons

5. Fly ash solidification
• Tainan plant: 13,620 tons solidified
• Yongkang plant: 13,056 tons properly buried

6. Landfill Supervision
• Effluent and groundwater tests all compliant
• 638 on-site supervision sessions
• Seasonal monitoring across multiple landfills — all compliant

7. Management Report of Chengxi & Yongkang Facilities
• Visitors: Chengxi 12,803; Yongkang 26,184
• Activities: Dragon Boat, Watermelon Festival, Halloween, Christmas, etc.

Events