After the end of the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival, the New Taipei Tourist Bureau held a mountain cleansing activity, clearing out nearly 20 bags of garbage.

(Photo by reporter Lin Xinhan)

[Reporter Lin Xinhan/New Taipei Report] New Taipei City’s Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival ended yesterday, and the City Tourism and Tourism Bureau held a hiking and mountain cleaning activity today. A total of nearly 20 bags of garbage were cleaned up. In addition to the remains of the sky lantern, there were also cigarette butts, plastic bags, etc. , Yang Zongmin, director of the tourism bureau, said that he will strive to make ecological protection and tourism economy co-prosper and coexist.

The Bureau of Tourism and Tourism stated that this hiking and cleansing activity cooperated with the New Taipei City Mountain Association. A total of nearly 100 people participated. Mountaineering experts Wu Yuntian and Cui Zuxi served as guides, leading the people to go deep into the mountaineering trails and industrial roads around Shifen and Pingxi. Including Wufen Mountain Trail, Xiaozi Mountain Trail, Dongguakeng Mountain Trail, etc.

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Yang Zongmin said that each route can see different characteristics of vegetation, mountain forest landscape, insect and animal ecology, and mining relics. He encourages the public to not only come to Pingxi to release sky lanterns to pray for blessings, but also to protect the mountains and forests and understand the ecology of Pingxi by cleaning the mountain. The environment, so that the inheritance and development of the traditional culture of sky lanterns can be balanced with the protection of the mountain and forest environment.

Wu Yuntian pointed out that hiking and purifying mountains not only satisfy the body and mind, but also protect the environment. In addition to picking up the remains of sky lanterns, there are also cigarette butts, plastic bags, drink cups, etc. He hopes that the public will respond to plastic reduction life and take practical actions to protect the earth .

The Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival came to an end, and the Tourism Bureau cleaned out nearly 20 bags of garbage, including cigarette butts and plastic bags in addition to the remains of the sky lantern.

(Photo by reporter Lin Xinhan)