Kuomintang legislator suggested transporting Kinmen garbage to China for disposal, sparking heated debate
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- Kuomintang legislator Chen Yuzhen suggested transporting Kinmen garbage to China for disposal.
- Environment Minister Peng Qiming refused on the basis of the Basel Convention.
- Chen Yuzhen advocated using the ambiguous space between the Constitution of the Republic of China and China not to consider state-to-state relations to deal with it, triggering heated discussions and criticisms among netizens.
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Kuomintang legislator Chen Yuzhen today (26th) questioned Environment Minister Peng Qiming about Kinmen's garbage disposal issue. He even proposed that the garbage be transported to China for disposal. Minister Peng also asked Minister Peng to use the ambiguous space where the Chinese government does not consider Taiwan to have "state-to-state relations" to send garbage to China, triggering heated discussions among netizens. Since Kinmen does not have large-scale incinerator facilities, seaborne garbage and domestic waste have long relied on being transferred to other counties and cities on the island for incineration. However, as some incineration plants in Taiwan have entered the renovation period or their processing capacity has been saturated, the cost of transferring it to Taiwan has increased. In addition, the Ministry of Environment has canceled subsidies due to overhauls of the financial planning law, and has changed policies to promote Kinmen to plan local small gasifiers, or use machine sorting and high-efficiency pre-treatment, prompting local governments to move toward independent waste treatment. ...
