About this section
- Environmental Sanitation Management Unit:
- Collection and transport of general waste
- Cleaning of streets and gutters
- Inspection and maintenance of the sanitary conditions of public washroom facilities
- Detection and reporting of violations of sanitary standards
- Management of street poster placement and removal of illegally placed posters
- Management of empty houses and fields
- Coastal area cleaning and beach cleaning
- Dengue fever prevention and control
- District Cleaning Team Affairs Management Unit:
- Management of cleaning squadron affairs
- Procurement and maintenance of cleaning vehicles
- Civil defense training and emergency relief
- Property and budget management
- Providing portable restrooms in support of large events
- Cleaning squadrons of 36 districts citywide:
Providing waste collection/transport, street sweeping, street gutter cleaning services in the districts they serve.
Achievements of this section
- In 2017, to ensure environmental cleanness, the Section:
- Performed sanitary condition assessment of 7,557 public washroom facilities, of which 3,727 were given an "excellent" rating, and the other 728 were given a "good" rating.
- Eliminated 41,461 potential breeding sites for dengue infections; cleaned 37,902 open grounds; removed 3,327 waste tires and 219,326 vessels. A total of 27,715 personnel were involved in the cleaning, making 4,343 truck trips combined, with 13,279 metric tons of trash and waste removed from drains and gutters.
- Received 632 reports of violations of public hygiene regulations, and detected 278 such cases. Total amount of fines issued was NT$333,600.
- Received 6,419 reports of violations of public hygiene standards in open fields and empty houses; and detected 347 such cases.
- Mobilized 102,689 people citywide on the Epidemic Prevention Day to join a cleaning campaign. A total of 96,737 containers holding water were cleaned, 9,778 places of waste disposed of, and drains spanning 3,861 places removed.
- Carried out a "one-borough-a-day" cleaning program, which was implemented across 10,645 boroughs, with 109,811 people participating to clean 112,470 containers with water and 38,425 dirty places.
- Carried out a dengue fever larvae cleaning campaign. A total of 23 cases were reported and handled across 11 districts. In addition, 27 breeding sites and 7 drains tested positive for the virus were detected upon closer inspection of the high-risk areas around a 50-meter radius of the reported cases. A total of 57 high-risk sites were discovered and flagged as targets for further inspection.
- Garnered an "good" rating from the Environmental Protection Administration in the 2016 municipal governments' environmental sanitation management performance review for special municipalities and counties (cities).
- To strengthen cleaning operations, the Section:
- Carried out cleaning duties in local communities, spending a combined 25,656 person days cleaning 5,671 kilometers of streets and alleys, 997 fields totaling 181,352 m2 and 16,948 containers holding water, in addition to mowing grounds with a combined area of 987,366 m2 and removing 115,467 flyers illegally posted on public property and 1,380 metric tons of waste.
- Made a total of 704 delivery trips for providing portable restrooms for public events.
- Detected and filed reports for 3,030 abandoned vehicles, of which 1,303 were towed away afterwards.
- Received 431 applications for installing street/pole banners.
- Sold a total of 46,489.6 tons of kitchen leftovers, wood pallets, recycled materials and waste wood.