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Miaoli City is a center for politics,
economy, culture and education, of which the population has
long hit the target of 90,000. However, as the population
increases, the precious natural environment has been destroyed.
The question of environmental protection has become increasingly
sophisticated as time passes. Upon in office, Mayor Chiou
Bing Kun had immediately listed the environmental protection
that is closely related to the living quality of the city
residents as a matter of priority in his administration.
Since July 1st 1998, Miaoli City took a lead in the overall
implementation of garbage division and resources recycle to
avoid the wastes from causing a secondary environmental pollution.
The result was a drastic reduction on the quantity of collected
garbage and hence a prolonged life of the garbage disposal
plants. As analyzed by the sanitary team, within the household
garbage, 34% of them belong to kitchen residual, fruits and
vegetable leaves and organic wastes; 38% consist of recyclable
bottles, cans and papers; the actual garbage itself only occupies
24% of the entire garbage. This is an explicit indication
that the proportions of recyclable resources and kitchen residual
are rather high. It also reveals that the materialization
on garbage division and resources recycling are environmental
policies that can not be delayed.
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| The Miaoli City Hall had given every household a plastic
recycle basket. It also purchases numerous tri-cycles as gifts to
low-income households who live on collecting recyclable items. Environmental
volunteers enthusiastically form into teams and voluntarily clean
up the community area and environments of the public places. Besides,
they also give an impetus on resources recycle. Before the implementation
of resources recycle program, on average the amount of garbage collected
throughout the city was approximately 110 kilometric tones. One year
after its implementation, the amount declined to 98 kilometric tones.
After pliancy exhortation and refusal to collect undivided garbage,
both the soft and hard approach had increased the public's level of
coordination. The daily garbage reduced from 92 kilometric tones in
2000 to 83 kilometric tones in 2001. Currently, there leaves only
70 kilometric tones. The proportion of recyclable resources increases
from 6% at the beginning to the current 21%. The effectiveness of
the outcome is explicit. In 2000, the Environmental Protection Administration
had awarded Miaoli City the third place throughout the nation. The
Sanitary Team will continue to strive hard for the objective of 25%
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Every year in the Tree Planting Festival,
the Miaoli City Hall will exchange seedlings for recyclable
papers to encourage the city residents to recycle paper or aluminum
foil package in exchange for a green and beautiful residential
environment. It helps to enhance in the public's mind that logging
can be reduced through paper conservation. The garage sale that
is held beside the site could help to cultivate a good habit
of resources reuse in children. These keen, little environmental
forces would in turn influence more of their family members
in aspects of environmental protection.
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Since May 1st 2002, the authority had expanded on the implementation
of kitchen residual recycling. Assisted by resources recycling trucks,
there are 8 routes whereby kitchen residual will be collected. Currently,
the quantity of collected kitchen residual has reached 25kilometric
tones. To prevent mass kitchen residual from causing secondary environmental
pollution in the drainage system, collected kitchen residual is recycled
into organic fertilizer through the process of organic substance decomposition.
3 kilometric tones of organic fertilizer can be produced daily for
public use in fields and orchards.
The Sanitary Team has also provided large-sized trucks for the transportation
of scrap furniture and abandoned, obsolete cars. Besides, it also
provides cleaning services on drain ditches and irrigation waterways,
and catching of stray dogs. It also provides services of regular checks
on mosquito index and thorough cleaning of filthy and messy dead corners
to prevent the propagation of mosquitoes in the aim to ensure the
public's health. |
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The Miaoli City Hall had easily
and fully utilized some of the idle spaces or visually obstructive
empty lands due to their respective land control planning.
Meanwhile, it extensively offers free seedlings to the city
residents in encouraging the planting and greening of community
areas and residential environment. Such measures would not
only increase the recreational spaces for the city residents,
but also embellish a green appearance to the city. The lush
green camphor trees along both sides of Jingguo Road and the
exuberant Madagascar almond trees on the central dividing
pavement resemble a green tunnel that has been honored “The
Golden Road Award" by the Ministry of Transportation
and Communications.
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| Even in awkward engineering, the authority has ensured that ideas
of ecological conservation and environmental protection to be blended
in. For instance, from the commencement of road digging, installation
of pipelines to refilling of roads and restoration engineering, the
Miaoli City Hall had laid out a definite standard. The units responsible
for the engineering works must ensure traffic safety and must not
create environmental pollution. In terms of rivers and streams repair
engineering, the authority has also adopted, on a reasonable extent,
ecological engineering measures that would benefit the propagation
of indigenous bio-organisms; a clear sign of concern over the conservation
of natural eco-system. |
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