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Title: Daily Trash and Recycling in Taiwan
Youtube.com has some videos of this too, it's pretty
interesting. :)
Stephen N. Weisser, Sales Manager
GreenLine Paper Company, Inc.
631 S. Pine Street
York, PA
17403
717-845-8697
1-800-641-1117
stevew@no.address
Close the loop: recycling works
when we buy recycled.
The daughter of
some friends of mine is in Taiwan doing a Fulbright teaching assistantship.
Below is an excerpt from her blog about trash and recycling there. Very
interesting. There are photos at the blog as well. If you want to check them out
(it is an excellent blog, by the way), go to the August 8 entry:
http://kpabs.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
--
David Biddle, Executive
Director
<http://www.blueolives.blogspot.com>
Greater
Philadelphia Commercial Recycling Council
P.O. Box 4037
Philadelphia, PA
19118
215-247-3090 (desk)
215-432-8225 (cell)
<http://www.gpcrc.com>
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
There was a
typhoon last night...
Luckily, it was only rain and a little wind.
Nothing serious. There's another one coming tomorrow morning too. Supposedly
"all the locals tape their windows" to prevent glass shattering, but looking
around our building, we're the only ones who've done it...
Yesterday we
took out the trash for the first time. Which was good, since we had a TON of
trash and it needed to be taken out. However, unlike in the states, the trash
truck and recycling trucks come everyday. Seems simple, no? On Mondays and
Fridays, they collect trash, food waste (to feed the livestock), glass, paper,
and used clothing. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays they collect the usual
trash and food, and then all the other recyclables. We got a 5 page list of
things that can and can't be recycled. It's intense.
The trash truck
comes at 6:30 and at 9. So at 6:15, while we were getting our trash ready, we
hear this loud classical music playing from speakers around our apartment
building. Apparently it's to warn us that the trash truck is coming. We, along
with the rest of our building, take the trash downstairs and wait outside for
the trash and recycling trucks to come. When they finally arrive, playing yet
MORE classical music, the bags are handed over to the trash men, who have the
hardest job of opening up the bags and dumping all the contents into different
containers.
Everybody does it.
Clearly a social
event.
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