More than 470,000 tons of garbage are like a mountain of unexploded bombs. He Xinchun: I have a solution

More than 470,000 tons of garbage are like a mountain without explosive bombs. He Xinchun: I have a solution. (Photo by reporter Chen Yurui)

The countdown to Taichung Mayor Lu Hsiu-yan's eight-year term has left a lot of municipal mess for the new mayor to clean up. Among them, more than 470,000 tons of garbage have been piled up in the Dali landfill. Many people are worried that it will be like "unexploded bombs" in the garbage war, and it will also become a serious challenge for the new mayor. He Xinchun, candidate for mayor of Taichung from the Democratic Progressive Party, stressed that his first priority in taking office would be to divert and decontaminate food waste and return incinerators to only burn garbage. No matter how long it takes to burn the 470,000-ton garbage mountain, "without the first step, there will be no next step."

The burdens of Lu Xiuyan’s eight years in power have been reviewed one by one, including the issue of garbage disposal that is related to people’s livelihood. Since the construction of the new Wenshan incinerator has not started during her eight years in office, garbage disposal has not been able to cope with the problem. The city government responded by burying or stacking it in the Dali landfill. As of the end of August, 470,000 tons of garbage had not been processed. The "Dali Garbage Mountain" is like an unexploded bomb in the garbage war, which has become a difficult challenge that the new mayor has to face after taking office.

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He Xinchun said that the mountain of garbage in the Dali Landfill is due to the insufficient capacity of the incinerator. In addition to piling up the unfinished garbage into a mountain of garbage, the city government uses space bags to package it and pile it up in the Dali Landfill. If there is not enough, it will be put into the Wenshan Landfill. In the future, If there is not enough, it should be put back in the back. Continuous relocation has not solved the problem. The key to the insufficiency of the incinerator is that Taichung food waste is thrown into the incinerator. This is a wrong policy. Therefore, food waste disposal and household waste must be separated.

He Xinchun said that only subsidizing household food waste machines with limited functions cannot solve the problem at all. We must provide a large amount of food waste treatment methods. In the future, she will build a large food waste treatment plant. In fact, Taichung has already had the Waipu Green Energy Ecological Park available, but it has been idle for 8 years. "The current Mayor Lu will only encounter problems if he does not do it." If she takes office, the first thing she will do is speed up the establishment of food waste treatment plants to solve the problem of food waste removal in large quantities.

In addition, public markets and community buildings are subsidizing large-scale food waste processing equipment to help divert and dispose of food waste nearby. He Xinchun said that through subsidies for different food waste equipment, the food waste does not have to be burned in incinerators, which will increase the amount of garbage incinerated. At the same time, taking stock of the incinerator equipment in Taichung City, update what needs to be updated, and burn garbage with the best efficiency, so that the garbage mountain can be leveled efficiently and on schedule.

He Xinchun pointed out that some people will definitely question "how long will it burn?" But without the first step, there will be no next step. We must start to deal with the garbage mountain. In the future, during her four-year term as the first mayor, she will be very responsible in reporting the solution to the citizens every year. "This is her promise to the citizens."

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