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Topic Reading-Vol.2982-6/10/2020
Dear MEL Topic Readers,
How getting rid of dustbins helped Taiwan clean up its cities
The more trash bins there are, the cleaner the streets may look. However, that doesn’t seem to reduce waste at all. In fact, many people tend to feel less conscious of waste management, and some even throw out garbage and trash into street trash bins from home. That seems to have been the situation in Taiwan a few decades ago. When the island nation reached the point where most of the island’s landfills reached their full capacity, people were tired and sick of the odor from the landfills and concerned about environmental problems. Finally, in 1998, reluctant lawmakers pushed by the public movements passed the Waste Disposal Act to promote recycling and waste reduction. The government also stopped just collecting and dumping the waste and removed most of the trash bins from the streets. The results were better in places where people were more educated about waste management and recycling.
If you visit the mainland, you’ll see numbers of trash bins all around and won’t find garbage on the streets any longer. That’s better for tourists and visitors but what the next step will be?
Read the article and learn how precious the consumption habits and environmental behaviors of the citizens are.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200526-how-taipei-became-an-unusually-clean-city
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