A Kaohsiung woman surnamed Su picked up "rubbish" from the community environmental protection room and was brought home for a public trial. She angrily accused the management committee of kicking the iron.

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[Reporter Huang Jialin / Kaohsiung Report] A woman surnamed Su recently found that a suitcase discarded by the residents in the community environmental protection room was still in use. It was determined that the suitcase was an "unowned thing", and Su Nu was punished without prosecution; Su's Anti-Control Management Committee demanded 200,000 yuan for compensation, but the judge believed that Su Nu's behavior of picking up the waste involved the management committee's management of resource recycling, and therefore determined that The management committee did nothing wrong and sentenced Su Nu to lose the case.

The judgment pointed out that a woman surnamed Su, who lives in a well-known building in Fengshan District, is also enthusiastic about public welfare and participating in the operation of the community management committee. At around 6 am on May 12 last year, she found a suitcase abandoned by the residents in the environmental protection room of the community. Seeing that the outside of the suitcase was in good condition, she picked it up and took it home for use.

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After the community management committee found out about the incident, at the meeting of the management committee in June, with the topic "The Residents Stealing the Recyclables from the Environmental Protection Room Repeatedly Persuaded Not to Hear the Case", accusing Su Nu, as a committee member, that she should lead by example and not act. The behavior of satisfying her own interests, despite repeated persuasion by the committee, she still refused to listen, and asked her to sign the closing letter, apologize and make an announcement within one week of the announcement of the minutes of the meeting.

After the meeting, the management committee posted the minutes of the meeting on the elevators and corridors of the community building and announced that all the residents were aware of it. This made Su woman feel ashamed and believed that the management committee had "falsely" accused her of stealing, which caused her not only to be arrested. Judicial accountability also suffered from anxiety and depression and sought medical treatment. Although the prosecution gave her justice afterwards, she was angry and sued the management committee for 200,000 yuan.

During the Fengshan summary court hearing, the management committee argued that in order to consider the public environmental hygiene of the building’s residents, the community had successively agreed with other civil organizations and Tzu Chi that civil organizations would assist in the disposal of relevant resource recycling materials free of charge, and the resource recycling materials were being recycled. Some value generated from the disposal can also be used as a subsidy for these civil organizations to assist in the disposal of recyclables. Therefore, the residual value of the recyclables will indeed affect the willingness of the organizations to assist in disposal. The management committee is responsible for managing and maintaining it.

The judge believes that although the community statute does not stipulate that households cannot pick up waste from the environmental protection room, the residual value of resource recycling will indeed become a factor that affects whether civil organizations or individuals are willing to dispose of resource recycling for free. The recyclables placed in the environmental protection room are taken by others, thereby reducing the overall residual value of the recyclables; and the management committee announces the resolutions made at the meeting to the owners of the buildings, which can be identified as the scope of the executive management committee’s duties , it is difficult to recognize that there is an unlawful infringement of Su Nu's reputation, so Su Nu has been sentenced to lose the case and can appeal.