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Taipei Municipal Guangfu Elementary School (2009 CyberFair Project ID 5720)
Taiwan,
Taipei
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 10 student(s) from 10 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Taipei City, located in the north top of Taiwan, is a big city with 2,620,000 populations. The city has been set up for 120 years. The industry and commerce in Taipei has been highly developed. It is an important center of culture, economy and politics in Taiwan, too. In addition, the environmental protection in Taipei is a concerned issue for people in Taiwan. The citizens have the common consensus to make the city be the most beautiful and cleanest in the world. In order to make Taipei city be the most progressive and suitable for residing in the area of Asia and the Pacific, Taipei City Government tries to carry out the policy of “No Trash on the Ground” and “A Charge of Trash Bags”. Moreover, in the end of 2003, they executed the recycling system of kitchen waste. They changed the passive way of trash treatment to the positive way of “recycling resources” and “lessening trash” in Taipei city. The operation policy and sustainable development were successful and they hoped to reach the goal of “No Need to Bury the Trash in Taipei and to Recycle Totally.
Project Description: Taipei city has decreased 60% amount of garbage and increased 42% quantity of recycling resource since it executed the policy of “A Charge of Trash Bags”. Absolutely, it is a miracle of the garbage treatment in the world. There was a report of “What I Picked up about Trash in Taipei” in Washington Post written by Miss Julia Ross, a scholar from America to learn Chinese in Taipei. She described what she learned to dispose of household waste in Taipei. She was moved by the passion of citizens who were devoted to the recycling resources. As Julia Ross said, “Before my year in Taiwan, I was a lazy environmentalist,…Living in a place where I was expected to use what I bought and recycle every last yogurt cup and juice box left me with a new appreciation for what clean streets mean in a civil society, and the realization that I’m responsible for everything I consume. That’s as good a Chinese lesson as any.” In the eyes of Julia Ross, the environmental maintenance was more effective in Taiwan than in the United States. It made us be proud and touched to be a citizen in Taipei.Ten years ago, Taipei City’s sidewalks were drowning in rotting garbage. There were overflowed trash tanks all over the communities. You’d never know it today. Today the citizens in Taipei will sort the trash voluntarily. Then, meet the garbage truck five nights a week at the mouth of a nearby alley. It attributed the success to the policies of “No Trash on the Ground”, “A Charge of Trash Bags” and “To Recycle Kitchen Waste Totally”. Besides, the citizens who cooperated with each other to match up to the policies were the key point of success.