Taichung mayor proud of garbage, recycling work

Hu made the remarks when he attended the inauguration of a kitchen leftovers processing zone at the city's garbage disposal facility.

The first city in the country to enforce classified garbage collection system — in 1999 — Taichung also started to encourage households to separate kitchen leftovers from their general garbage the following year.

In 2003, a factory was set up in the garbage disposal facility to process kitchen leftovers into fertilizer and chicken feed and today, with a subsidy of NT$50 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Executive Yuan, the city's environmental protection department has developed a special zone for managing kitchen leftovers that includes the processing factory, a chicken farm and an ecology park.

According to Hu, the city's garbage recycling rate has been raised from 8.9 percent in 1999 to 43.5 percent in 2009.

EPA statistics show that per capita daily garbage disposal in Taichung has continued to drop in the past five years and that at 0.367 kg per person per day, is the second-lowest among all cities and counties in the nation, behind only the outlying island county of Kinmen.

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