The environmental protection bureaus of the four cities in Kibei and Beitao established the "Jibei Beitao Environmental Protection Exchange and Cooperation Platform" for cross-domain control. The first meeting was hosted by the New Taipei City Environmental Protection Bureau.

(Photo by reporter Gan Menglin)

[Reporter Gan Menglin/New Taipei Report] The life circles of Jibei Beitao are closely related, and they are even more involved in environmental protection issues. On the 25th, the environmental protection bureaus of the four cities of Beitai officially established the "Jibei Beitao Environmental Protection Exchange and Cooperation Platform" across domains Control, from the 6 major aspects of "waste removal and treatment, low-carbon sustainability and environmental education, air quality and noise control, marine pollution improvement, river basin pollution control, environmental maintenance and inspection" for tens of millions The quality of life of citizens is checked.

The first meeting of the "Jibei Beitao Environmental Protection Exchange and Cooperation Platform" was hosted by the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New Taipei City Government, focusing on issues such as noise vehicle control, ocean and river cleanliness.

During the meeting, Taipei City and New Taipei City shared their experience in collecting garbage fees with bags for reference in Keelung and Taoyuan City. It was also mentioned in the meeting that the current reciprocal treatment model of garbage and kitchen waste between New Taipei City and Taoyuan City can be used as a mutual aid for counties and cities References for waste disposal; and exchange of experience in cooperative case handling of environmental pollution cases that occur across domains, such as illegal transportation of earth and stones and illegal disposal of waste.

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Regarding the control of noisy vehicles, the environmental protection bureaus of the four cities currently set up fixed or mobile sound and camera equipment to ban them. In 2016, according to Article 8 of the Noise Control Law, New Taipei City announced the night control period (10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. the next day) Controls are adopted to prohibit the use of exhaust pipes that have not been inspected by the competent authority for vehicles driving during this time period. Since the implementation, the number of petition cases has dropped by 37% compared with that before the announcement; therefore, the environmental protection bureaus of the four cities discussed in this meeting that in the future, they will uniformly implement the night control period Prohibition of behavior is moving forward, and it is hoped that through cross-domain control, the situation of noisy vehicles that disturb the people will be reduced.

The four cities in the meeting also established the "River and Sea Cleansing Alliance", declaring that they will jointly defend the ocean and river environment, and in response to Earth Day, it is scheduled to conduct joint river cleaning on April 29 this year. According to the "no trace" principle, Disposable drinking water cups are not provided on site, and movable backboards are not used. After the event, the waste that is cleaned up will be made into reused products; marine waste and river waste survey operations will be carried out, and composition analysis and hot information will be provided at the end of each year. Municipalities share resources as a reference for marine (river) waste policy formulation.