page_title: Air pollution in Taiwan
section_title: Industry
hierarchical_section_title: Air pollution in Taiwan / Sources of pollution / Domestically produced pollution / Industry
caption_attribution_description: English: Formosa Plastics Group Mail-Liao Industrial Complex, Yunlin, Taiwan.中文（繁體）‎: 台灣雲林 台塑關係企業麥寮工業園區
context_page_description: Air pollution in Taiwan is mostly derived from sources of domestic combustion, primarily the burning of fossil fuels. Taiwan's topography has been noted to be a contributing factor to its air pollution problem, leading to poor dispersal and trapping pollutants. Taipei, Taiwan's capital and largest city for example, is surrounded by mountains, and other industrial centers along the northern and western coasts of Taiwan are surrounded by high mountains.
context_section_description: During warnings by the scientific community about increasing prevalence of lung cancer in Taiwan in December 2015, it was claimed that Taichung Power Plant, along with the Sixth Naphtha Cracking Plant of the Formosa Plastics Group account for roughly seventy percent of the air pollution in the Central Taiwan region of the country, emitting large quantities of sulfur oxides.
caption: Some buildings of the heavily polluting Sixth Naphtha Cracker Plant of the Formosa Plastics Group Mail-Liao Industrial Complex in northwestern Yunlin County, Taiwan, on 15 March 2014.
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