The amount of waste glass in Hualien County has accumulated 532.1 tons as of June this year due to the crisis of waste glass in Taiwan derived from the fact that the mainland no longer purchases it. It is feared that the landfill will explode. There is a traffic jam in the waste glass pipeline in Taichung City, and there is also an increasing trend in Hsinchu City. New Taipei City and Shuishang Rural Township in Chiayi County once exploded, and the pace of de-industrialization has been accelerated. The Environmental Protection Agency pointed out that this was due to the reduction of revenue from a relatively large treatment plant, the high cost of shipping, the fact that some countries did not buy glass sand from Taiwan, and the annual repair of large factories. Wei Chia-hsien, a member of the Hualien County Council, pointed out yesterday that considering the cost, technology, and supply and demand of waste glass disposal, the domestic recycling industry is not willing to accept it, resulting in a large amount of hoarding. At present, there are as many as 532.1 tons of waste glass in Hualien. He is worried that the influx of summer vacation tourists into Hualien will lead to the explosion of garbage dumps. Chang Hua, head of the waste management section of
the Hualien County Environmental Protection Bureau, points out that there is no recycling problem for household waste glass for the time being, but the catering industry does not collect it because the amount collected by the treatment plant is small, and a small number of recyclers do not collect it because the transportation does not meet the cost and the willingness to transfer is low. She
said that she had coordinated with the Environmental Protection Agency to increase subsidies for recyclers, and asked the stone industry to try to make about 20 tons of waste glass in Ji'an Township into glass sand, which would be used as landfill cover soil, and then expand the waste glass removal after evaluating the efficiency and cost.
The Taichung City Environmental Protection Bureau pointed out that since the end of last year, there has been a traffic jam in the waste glass recycling pipeline, and the temporary amount of recycled waste glass has accumulated 370 tons. In June, 250 tons have been sent to Chunchi Glass in Hsinchu City, which will be digested one after another. Chang Hui-chuan, director of
the Chiayi County Bureau of Environmental Protection, said that there was an explosion of glass bottles in Shuishang Rural Township, and that after speeding up the reduction, they would not burst. Colored glass is more difficult to reduce than transparent glass, and it is not easy to reduce in all parts of the country. Chung Yun-tai, head of the recycling resources section of the New Taipei City Bureau of Environmental Protection, said that from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, the rate of reduction was relatively tight, and the Environmental Protection Administration intervened to expand the production capacity of; According to the Environmental Protection Bureau of Hsinchu City, about 30 tons of waste glass are recycled every day, and nearly 400 tons of glass are piled up in the recycling yard, which has an increasing trend but can still be controlled. Environmental protection officials
at the grassroots level also said that there was a crisis in the disposal of waste glass. Apart from the fact that the mainland no longer buys it and the export volume is small, the reduction in revenue of the Daxiang Container Industry Co., Ltd. in Hsinchu County has also triggered a chain effect. Wang Yueh-pin, executive secretary of the
Environmental Protection Administration's Resource Recovery Fund Management Committee, points out that in the past, there were financial problems with large-scale glass processing plants, which reduced their revenue. In addition, international shipping costs were rising, and some countries did not accept Taiwan's export of glass sand, and large factories repaired annually, resulting in insufficient waste glass disposal capacity.
He said that the waste glass accumulated in Hualien is quite smooth, but it will take time to solve it step by step. The Environmental Protection Department pointed out that the subsidy was 2.1 yuan per kilogram for monochrome glass and 1.55 yuan per kilogram for variegated glass to encourage the use of variegated glass, which is more difficult to dissolve, in tile and cement raw material products.
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