Reuse means waste can be reduced by buying durable items and items that can be repaired once damaged or refilled when run out. Recycle means recovering natural resources for reuse. Around 40 percent by weight of waste can be recycled. Both manufacturing and consuming were carried out without any regard for the social responsibility of pollution prevention, but the newly amended act enforced in the solid waste clean up area, residents pay the clean up service fee, manufacturers are responsible for disposal of the industrial waste they produced. As Japan, Taiwan is relatively lacking in natural resources, but with economic activity rapidly increasing, the amount of garbage that we discard everyday is becoming greater and more complex.
Garbage includes many valuable natural resources which can be reused.
Because we need to cherish and be sparing with those materials. From the summer of 1989, in summer season, the EPA allocated garbage bins to recreational beaches around the island to demonstrate responsible garbage disposal behavior. We are educating people to keep the public places clean through this project, and thus far, it has been very effective according to public response. The EPA cooperated with the ROC Diving Association and several other private diving groups in keeping the coastal area from accumulating lots of garbage underwater. This project has taken place since 1989.