Taiwan has a successful waste sorting and recycling system, with a recycling rate of over 50% and one of the lowest per capita waste production in the world, thanks to its 'garbage does not land' policy.

Sweden and Norway are examples of countries with successful waste sorting and recycling systems.

Scandinavian countries have a successful waste sorting and recycling system, with the state playing a role in organizing the process.

"Belgium, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have successful waste sorting and recycling systems, with practices such as charging for garbage bags, designating specific times and places for throwing garbage, and promoting garbage classification."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have successful waste sorting and recycling systems, utilizing garbage levies and volume charges to promote proper waste classification and reduction."

"Sweden and Norway are examples of countries with successful waste sorting and recycling systems, with Sweden importing garbage from neighboring countries to generate energy."

Scandinavian countries have effective waste sorting and recycling systems, with the government playing a significant role in organizing the process.

"Countries such as Belgium in the European Union, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have implemented successful waste sorting and recycling practices, including charging for garbage bags and designating specific times and places for throwing garbage."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have effective waste sorting and recycling systems, using garbage levies and volume charges to regulate waste classification and reduce waste generation."

"Japan has a successful waste sorting and recycling system, requiring residents to use transparent bags and properly wrap recyclable materials, making it a potential model for other countries to follow."

Sweden and Norway's practice of importing garbage and converting it into energy can be a successful model for increasing recycling and reducing waste.

Implementing a system where scrap collectors can sort and gather recyclable waste can increase recycling and reduce waste.

Implementing a balance between government support and community involvement can increase recycling and reduce waste, as seen in the Scandinavian example where both state-organized and society-organized recycling processes were effective.

Implementing a fixed garbage collection time and designated placement for garbage bags, as well as charging for garbage bags, can increase recycling and reduce waste.

Implementing a pay-as-you-throw system, where citizens are charged for the amount of waste they generate, can increase recycling and reduce waste, as seen in countries like Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

"Globally, only 10% of the 100 billion tons of Earth's resources consumed each year are recycled."

"The current global recycling rate is approximately 8.6%."

Globally, less than 9 percent of materials are currently being recycled.

Less than 10% of the 400 million tons of plastic waste produced globally each year is recycled.

Less than 10% of the over 8 billion tons of plastic produced since the 1950s has been recycled, indicating a low global recycling rate.

The Hong Kong government plans to implement a municipal solid waste charging system on August 1 this year, a practice that has been successful in other parts of the world in reducing waste generation and increasing recycling rates.

The Hong Kong government has put the implementation of the urban solid waste charging system on hold indefinitely.

The Hong Kong government has implemented an urban solid waste charging system as of April 1 this year, with legislation passed in August 2021, aiming to reduce waste and promote recycling through a 'polluter pays' principle.

The Hong Kong government plans to implement the urban solid waste charging system after an 18-month preparation period.

"Japan is known for having one of the best waste sorting systems, being one of the most successful countries in waste levying and recycling."

Japan is recognized for its excellent waste sorting system, having been one of the best in the world since 1980.

"Sweden and Norway are known for having effective waste sorting systems, with Sweden even importing garbage from neighboring countries to turn into energy."

Scandinavian countries are known for having effective waste sorting and recycling systems, with advanced secular states playing a significant role in organizing these processes.

"Countries such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Belgium have implemented effective waste sorting systems, including charging for garbage bags and designating specific times and places for throwing garbage."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have experience in reducing waste, including potentially food waste, through the use of garbage levies and volume charges."

"Japan has experience in reducing food waste through its meticulous garbage sorting system."

"South Korea has a successful waste recycling system, with a recycling rate of over 50%, which can be a model for reducing food waste."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have experience in reducing food waste and have implemented successful waste management practices, including detailed garbage classification and recycling systems."

Several countries have experience in reducing food waste, including Britain, France, Denmark, China, Finland, Malaysia, Japan, India, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.

Sweden and Norway are examples of countries with successful waste recycling systems.

Scandinavian countries have implemented successful waste recycling projects, with the state playing a role in organizing the process.

"Several countries, including Belgium, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, have implemented successful waste recycling projects, such as charging for garbage bags and designating specific times and places for throwing garbage."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are implementing waste recycling projects through garbage levies to regulate citizen classification and reduce waste."

"Japan is implementing waste recycling projects, including requiring residents to use transparent bags for garbage sorting and proper wrapping of recyclable waste paper."

The Trends Center for Research and Consulting published a study on the European circular economy model.

TRENDS Research and Consulting Center published a study on the European circular economy model.

Trends published a study on the European circular economy model, analyzing the European Union's experience in waste recycling activities.

Circle Economy, a Dutch non-profit, published a study on the European circular economy model, highlighting the potential to control global warming by doubling the cycle rate.

Penn & Company published a study on the European circular economy model, which reveals that the potential profits from recycling waste in Italy could reach 90 billion euros and contribute to the development of European GDP by up to 7% and create 2 million jobs by 2030.

The European Union's recycling target for municipal waste by 2025 is 55%.

The European Union aims to recycle at least 55% of its municipal waste by 2025.

The Japanese government implements a garbage levy to regulate waste sorting and recycling, using volume charges and garbage charging plastic bags to promote the 'polluter pays' principle.

The Japanese government enforces a strict waste sorting and recycling system, requiring residents to use transparent bags for correct garbage classification and proper sorting, with community support for compliance.

The Japanese government optimizes waste sorting and recycling through detailed garbage classification management and differentiated charges, increasing industry willingness to handle difficult waste and resident enthusiasm for sorting and reduction.

The government in Japan is involved in refining and promoting the waste sorting and recycling system, highlighting its importance in effective waste management.

The Japanese government has successfully implemented a waste levy and recycling system, with recycling accounting for 20% of waste treatment, demonstrating a strong role in promoting sustainable waste management practices.

"Finland has an effective deposit return scheme, introduced in the 1950s for glass bottles and expanded to include plastic drinks containers 20 years ago."

"Finland and Norway have effective deposit return schemes, with Finland achieving a 94% recycling rate for aluminium cans and 92% for plastic bottles, and Norway achieving a 97% recycling rate, making them examples of successful waste sorting and recycling practices."

"Norway and Finland have effective deposit return schemes, with Norway's scheme producing high-quality recycled plastic and Finland's system allowing charitable donations."

"Germany has a successful deposit return scheme that has increased recycling rates, and it could be a model for other countries to follow."

Kenya has banned single-use plastics, starting with plastic bags in 2017 and extending to all single-use plastic in protected natural sites in 2020.

Kenya has banned single-use plastic bags as part of its efforts to reduce plastic waste.

"Norway and Finland are global leaders in recycling aluminum cans and PET bottles, with high recycling rates due to effective deposit return schemes and environmental taxes."

Brazil is a leader in recycling aluminum cans and PET bottles, with a recycling rate of over 98 percent.

Germany has implemented the 'Refund Margin' beverage bottle recycling system, which includes automatic recycling machines in supermarkets, allowing consumers to deposit empty bottles and receive a refund, resulting in a 95% recycling rate in 2018.

Norway has the highest household recycling rate of 97%, achieved through a combination of deposit return and environmental tax on bottle producers.

Germany has the highest household recycling rate, achieving 95% in 2018 through its 'Refund Margin' beverage bottle recycling system.

Taiwan has a successful waste sorting and recycling system, with a recycling rate of over 50% and one of the lowest per capita waste production in the world, thanks to its 'garbage does not land' policy.

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Let ’ s talk about the “brainwashing ” in Taiwan!
New York Times: A song that makes foreigners want to take out garbage
When you hear the world famous song “Für Elise ”, you want to take out garbage. It is rare for Taiwanese, but it is a very special thing for foreigners.
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[Instant News / Comprehensive Report] When you hear the world famous song “Für Elise ”, you want to take out garbage, which is rare for Taiwanese, but very special for foreigners.
The US media recently reported that for many people in the world, this classical music is a universal children's piano practice song or toy soundtrack, but in Taiwan it is a brainwashing song, calling the public to go downstairs and take out the garbage.
The New York Times reported that after the "To Alice" sound in Taiwan, in the next 20 minutes, the originally calm street became a meeting place, people walked or biked and other ways, put the pre-sorted garbage in front of the garbage truck, and met neighbors and friends to exchange a few words and chat about gossip.
The report mentions that the garbage truck music in Taiwan includes not only Ludwig van Beethoven ’ s famous song “To Alice ”, but also the legendary work“ Maiden ’ s Prayer ” by the 19th-century Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska.
This is all from Taiwan's decades-old "garbage does not land" policy, which is unique in the world. Garbage trucks rain and rain 5 days a week, so that Taiwan, once known as "garbage island", has become a clean society.
According to Eunomia, a British environmental consultancy, Taiwan has a recycling rate of more than 50% of household resources, second only to Germany and one of the lowest per capita waste production in the world.
Nate Maynard, a waste management expert in Taiwan, said that the role of garbage trucks in Taiwan ’ s successful environmental policy should not be overlooked, which makes people have to face the garbage they produce, and they have to deal with it and take it out.
The reason for choosing "To Alice" and "A Girl's Prayer" is still a mystery, and the folk legend uses "A Girl's Prayer" because Xu Ziqiu, the former director of health, just heard her daughter playing the song and decided to adopt it, while "To Alice" is the music that came with her when she bought a garbage truck from Germany.
For some, the songs have become a Pavlovian conditioning, with Maned recalling hearing "To Alice" while walking in a park in London, "I feel so hot that I have the urge to grab my garbage bag".
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Sweden and Norway are examples of countries with successful waste sorting and recycling systems.

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Content: Loosening the grip of the state is not so bad!
The divine state produced by the secular system, which controls all the details of the lives of its citizens, is at its best, creating paths for the movement of society, for thinking, for creativity, for collective action, if we are talking about its advanced Western applications, but what is happening in the Middle East, is nothing more than distorted secular states, with suspicious paths, and perhaps fatal if you think they are just paths, not ready-made templates. One is the stable, captive citizen.
I've always wondered what it would be like to have so many African migrants gathered there day and night, sorting, sorting and sharing garbage bags and the waste of houses, shops and workshops, and leaping gracefully into the trunk of every car hoping to get the most recyclable waste out of it.
Garbage recycling has become a very developed industry, representing a good income for the countries of the first world, in addition to solving environmental problems, do you imagine that countries such as Sweden and Norway have come to import garbage from neighboring countries, after they succeeded in turning it into a source of energy?
This is a good example of countries that control even the garbage of their citizens, and do not allow them to act on it randomly, the situation descends as you move away from the countries of the developed world, to reach the countries whose biggest achievements is stacking their garbage away from the sidewalks, shops and gardens, to make high mountains; in the hope that the lives of their officials will end before the population expansion creeps to the mountain rackets of garbage. The rubbish is dead, full of stinging insects, it tickles your skin whenever the wind moves, and the population explosion has thrown you south or north of the rubbish mountains.
In one of our large landfills, I have always wondered about the usefulness of this large group of African migrants who gather in it day and night, sorting, sorting and sharing garbage bags and the waste of houses, shops and workshops, and leaping gracefully into the trunk of each car hoping to get the most amount of recyclable waste. These tracks have markets and systems, which are already outside the scope of the state tracks, as scrap collectors have grown on both sides of the road.
And now you see the recycling business in all its stages before your eyes, starting from just standing in front of the landfill, and then picking up the garbage from the trunk of your car without even bothering to get down, and then walking to see the next step in front of you are other workers who are going with the gains of today and maybe yesterday, for those shops, weighing iron, wrapping paper, collecting wood, and accumulating plastics. A class of such junk in the form of bins, perhaps going to gather somewhere else, or eventually bringing it to that port, and it crosses one of the seas, and comes back to us again in the form of merchandise; we buy it in hard currency, consume it, and then return it to the landfill.
Society is already able to create balance, create opportunities, create a strong private sector, and effective community activity, only if balance is achieved, between a state that is based on the movement of society, and does not restrict it, provides it with an environment of security and stability, facilitates its movement, and warps it.
The witness here is that when the grip of the state in the Scandinavian example tightened, it organized the work of recycling, and when the grip loosened in our hands, society organized the same process, certainly the quality management of the two recycling processes was very different, and that's because we're talking about an advanced secular state, a deformed secular state, and we're not talking about another system.
Society is able to create balance, create opportunities, create a strong private sector, and effective community activity, only if balance is achieved, between a state that is based on the movement of society, does not restrict it, provides it with an environment of security and stability, facilitates its movement, and is crooked, a society that cools even if the state collapses, and rebuilds itself....
A philosophy that the Islamic regime was able to create, through a balanced society, its strength is manifested in the Waqf institutions that have spread throughout the country, to repair the gaps of society and reduce its missteps, while the state provides security; defuse conflicts and preserve the gaps, before the distorted secular states crawl on them and turn all independent societal institutions into a part of the institutions of a distorted state.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeera.

Scandinavian countries have a successful waste sorting and recycling system, with the state playing a role in organizing the process.

"Belgium, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have successful waste sorting and recycling systems, with practices such as charging for garbage bags, designating specific times and places for throwing garbage, and promoting garbage classification."

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Content: Bauhinia Party ｜ The Dilemma and Countermeasures of Hong Kong ’ s Waste Management System
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Author ： Shi Lei
The author believes that many of the current garbage collection disputes have been implemented to the feasibility level, in fact, are related to the inadequacy of the behavior system of residential areas to place garbage, and some of the shortcomings have not been collected garbage bags to make up for.
Its shortcomings mainly include: almost all residents of the garbage can be carried out 24 hours (such as a fixed garbage room and a long "business hours"), each residents of the garbage room often let the residents put garbage into (super) large garbage bins, and each garbage room corresponding to the number of residents, resulting in if there is a "black sheep" do not buy a levy garbage bag to throw garbage, they can walk without obstruction.
Property companies or FEHD contractors may have to wait for a long time before they find a "bad horse" in the process of comprehensive garbage disposal, but at this time it is difficult to claim responsibility, which leads to the "polluter pays" principle in fact is empty words.
The recent Jordan fire has also reminded all walks of life in Hong Kong that there are a large number of "trivial" old tenements in the most prosperous city center in Hong Kong, with chaotic personnel, lack of property services, and unethical behavior, resulting in a large number of public safety risks.
In these places, even property fees are difficult to ensure that the tenants pay in full, and how can the executive power to ensure the implementation of the levy garbage bag system? If the measures to effectively and timely remove the "black sheep" from the institutional level can not be designed, and the implementation level will be discounted for various "objective reasons", then it will form the behavior of "bad money driven away from good money".
Soon, no one will follow the requirements of the levy garbage bag system to do, and the criticism is rife, may the next government will abolish the annoying garbage collection system as a "moral government".
Refer to the garbage disposal policies of representative regions of the world, you can see that their garbage classification, collection of garbage bags and other systems are "devil in the details", often in the geographical environment, the unwritten rules of behavior in the residential community, and institutional protection, etc., to ensure that timely detection, isolation and failure to classify, pack and dispose of garbage according to the system requirements, and minimize the possibility of "black sheep".
For example, in the European Union, Belgium, where I lived, they have long promoted charging garbage bags.
Similar to Japan, Korea and Taiwan, residents have a fixed time to throw garbage (usually early in the morning on certain days), and garbage bags containing garbage should be placed in designated places.
It can be imagined that there is no requirement for garbage bags to be filled with garbage, but the specified bags are filled with garbage that should not be loaded or excessive garbage will be rejected.
The main way of living in the city of Leuven, where the author was at the time, was a single building or an apartment building (but the floor is usually no more than 10 floors, and the residents do not exceed 50 households). Once the garbage bags are found to be not in compliance with the regulations, whether it is the city government or the apartment manager, the difficulty of tracing is not great, and the surrounding residents will actively cooperate.
For example, Japan, Korea and Taiwan are using garbage levies to regulate the classification of citizens and reduce waste. The above areas must use the volume charge, through the use of garbage charging plastic bags to implement polluter pays.
In addition to requiring residents to place garbage (in the correct bag) in the designated location at the specified time, Japanese and Korean garbage bags are more meticulous in sorting.
For example, Japan, which is more familiar to Hong Kong people, requires transparent bags (not limited to specific models but must be transparent, can be tied) to quickly confirm that the garbage classification is correct, and the bag is combustible garbage, plastic, metal cans, etc., or non-recyclable and non-combustible waste.
Recyclable waste paper, etc., does not need to buy a separate garbage bag, but needs to be properly wrapped. Although Japan has a much higher density of living than EU countries, neighbors will pay more attention to not sorting garbage and will not delay the action.
South Korea's recycling rate is also more than 50%, the main reason is the strict classification of garbage bags, different from a kind of paid garbage bags in Hong Kong, South Korea is a variety of paid garbage bags, and each garbage bag can only contain one kind of material, and according to the difficulty of recycling to determine the price of garbage bags, the more difficult the recovery, the higher the price of garbage bags.
As a result, South Korea ’ s recovery rate is higher.
As for the Taiwan region, in addition to adopting a regular garbage collection mode similar to Japan, in the area where there are no conditions to set up a garbage room, there is a garbage truck and recycling truck every night, and the song of the snow truck comes to the small area.
This requirement is even higher, and residents need to actively show up at a specific time, so recycling workers can more accurately and timely eliminate the "black sheep" that do not pack garbage according to regulations, and therefore refuse to accept or take other measures.
It is worth pointing out that I have only visited Japan, Korea and Taiwan on short trips, and only stayed in commercial hotels.
Therefore, details such as the garbage system in residential areas are indirectly obtained through online KOL sharing, live scene dramas and other channels.
Please note that there are errors.
From this, it can be seen that the problems existing in Hong Kong's current waste management system and the waste management experience of advanced regions abroad have produced the following suggestions that deserve serious consideration and reference by the Hong Kong Government and relevant departments:
1. Improve the behavior system of residents throwing garbage.
First of all, the public garbage room and the garbage disposal place in the residential area should no longer be allowed to throw garbage 7x24 hours.
To consider formulating standards, such as limited delivery time and designated delivery points, for the reference of the entire Hong Kong property management industry, the FEHD will implement them to prevent the "black sheep" from evading garbage bag charges.
2. Strengthen the management of "no matter" areas, standardize the premises and methods of refuse collection in areas where property services are lacking, and ensure that the refuse charging system can be effectively implemented even in these problem areas.
3, with reference to the practices of Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other places, after the successful implementation of the garbage collection system, it continues to optimize, the implementation of more detailed garbage classification management, according to different materials and recycling difficulties to carry out differentiated charges.
This will increase the willingness of the environmental protection industry to handle high-difficulty waste, while increasing the residents ’ enthusiasm for sorting and waste reduction.
Critics may think that the institutional construction of these areas requires a long period of time and a large amount of resources to invest, and may not be able to be directly replicated in the real environment of Hong Kong.
Moreover, the improvement of the relevant system requires no small investment of resources.
Perhaps this is precisely the original intention of the SAR Government to levy a "short and fast" garbage levy.
However, it is already clear that the "short and fast" has only attracted doubts, and even if it is forced to push forward, it will also be at the expense of the government's recognition.
Moreover, the "black sheep" can not be effectively eradicated in a timely manner, which will inevitably make the garbage collection system become "half suspended". Only a few able and willing citizens are willing to do so (such as cooperating with "green in the area", and working hard even in the hot sun at the recycling point to deliver their own recyclable plastic waste to the recycling point of respectable citizens). Go your own way, the system cost has been paid a lot, and the problem to be solved by the garbage levy is still the same.
No matter what kind of solution is adopted, the government will need some time to refine the design of the refuse collection system and promote it more vigorously.
The implementation of the principle of garbage collection in the European Union, Japan and Korea, and Taiwan is not completed in three or two months.
Garbage collection needs the long-term cooperation of residents, change the long-term behavior habits can be completed in a few months?
How can this be called good governance and good governance? If you cook for the government, you can't be anxious and work hard for the government for a long time, you can only make a well-intentioned system truly have the positive meaning it should have.
The author is a researcher at the Bauhinia Institute for Policy Studies.
The article is only the opinion of the author and does not represent the position of Hong Kong 01.
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"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have successful waste sorting and recycling systems, utilizing garbage levies and volume charges to promote proper waste classification and reduction."

"Sweden and Norway are examples of countries with successful waste sorting and recycling systems, with Sweden importing garbage from neighboring countries to generate energy."

Scandinavian countries have effective waste sorting and recycling systems, with the government playing a significant role in organizing the process.

"Countries such as Belgium in the European Union, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have implemented successful waste sorting and recycling practices, including charging for garbage bags and designating specific times and places for throwing garbage."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have effective waste sorting and recycling systems, using garbage levies and volume charges to regulate waste classification and reduce waste generation."

"Japan has a successful waste sorting and recycling system, requiring residents to use transparent bags and properly wrap recyclable materials, making it a potential model for other countries to follow."

Sweden and Norway's practice of importing garbage and converting it into energy can be a successful model for increasing recycling and reducing waste.

Implementing a system where scrap collectors can sort and gather recyclable waste can increase recycling and reduce waste.

Implementing a balance between government support and community involvement can increase recycling and reduce waste, as seen in the Scandinavian example where both state-organized and society-organized recycling processes were effective.

Implementing a fixed garbage collection time and designated placement for garbage bags, as well as charging for garbage bags, can increase recycling and reduce waste.

Implementing a pay-as-you-throw system, where citizens are charged for the amount of waste they generate, can increase recycling and reduce waste, as seen in countries like Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

"Globally, only 10% of the 100 billion tons of Earth's resources consumed each year are recycled."

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Wu Meiqin
Wu Mei-chin: Waste Levy is an Important Step in Removing the Concept of “Garbage ”
[Ming Pao article] I remember attending a conference on sustainable development in Taipei in 2005, which focused on the theory and practice of urban waste disposal. Experts and officials from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other places shared their experiences on waste levies.
Each participant of the meeting was given a set of metal cutlery (this set is still used when I buy it in the office today). The lunch box for the meeting was already made of paper, and all the leftover food was recycled as kitchen waste.
The arrangement of the whole meeting is based on the principle of sustainable development.
Almost 20 years later, the waste levy in Hong Kong has not yet been implemented, and there are still friends who oppose the waste levy. It is a bit strange, probably because everyone does not understand the spirit behind the waste levy.
Why do we want to reduce waste? In fact, waste is a unique concept developed by "modern people", and this concept has caused many bad results.
We try to look around nature, "garbage" does not exist, nature will recycle all resources, endless life, there is no need for "garbage landfills".
As human beings, we need to learn from nature and remove the concept of “garbage ” from our vocabulary.
Responsibility of Earth Citizens
According to an X-Ray of the Global Economy study, we consume about 100 billion tons of Earth ’ s resources each year, but we recycle only 10% of that.
Among them, a quarter of the resources are converted into products that are relatively durable, such as buildings and automobiles, while two-thirds (67%) become garbage that is scattered into the environment! This is a huge waste that human beings can not afford in the long run.
The ecological resources of the earth are the capital that human beings rely on to survive, providing various benefits to mankind, and scientists are collectively called ecological services (ecosystem services).
The earth not only gives us the basic elements of our existence, such as food, clean air, clean water, food, clothing and transportation, but also raw materials for medicine, medical care and technological development.
Nature also regulates the climate and hydrology for us to cope with various natural disasters.
Ecological resources are also an integral part of our cultural life. They can not only enhance the quality of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) education, but also provide design inspiration for various industries, strengthen human sense of place and nourish our physical and mental health.
The author has read some scientific research and found that among the patients who have the same medical history in the hospital, those who can see the natural landscape outside the window, their recovery time will be relatively fast. It is obvious that the above ecological services value supports our social and economic development and directly affects human welfare.
According to scientists, the value of global ecological services in 2011 reached 125 trillion US dollars, compared with the value of ecological services in 1997, a decline of 4.3 trillion to 20.2 trillion US dollars per year.
The global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 is only about $85 trillion.
Researchers in the United States and Sri Lanka have found that humans use 73% more ecological resources each year than the Earth produces.
Our consumption of the earth ’ s resources has not only caused us to “sit on a landslide ”, but also caused the climate crisis, species extinction, social and economic polarization, and the deterioration of justice in the space environment.
Therefore, every citizen who has a share of the earth ’ s resources has a responsibility to clean up this mess.
Waste Levy Experience in Other Cities
A large amount of social science literature has proved that the waste levy is an effective measure to reduce the volume and weight of the overall waste, promote the recycling of items, and change the living behavior of the public.
For example, in some conditional cities, the waste levy has prompted citizens to turn kitchen waste into “homemade ” organic fertilizer.
According to the research of Professor Wu Shun-wen of National Taiwan University and Professor Lin Li-hung of Tunghai University on the garbage levy in New Taipei City (Note), New Taipei City implemented a policy of restricting plastic bags in 2002, a garbage separation plan in 2006, and a garbage levy plan in 2008 – 2011.
According to their data, New Taipei City has 29 districts with a population density of 6,700 people per square kilometer.
New Taipei City ’ s garbage levy plan is implemented in three stages, including promotion, implementation, and law enforcement.
During the promotion period, government departments in various districts have encouraged families to use designated garbage bags without penalty by distributing leaflets, briefing sessions and even drawing prizes to introduce the scheme to the public.
In the implementation phase, the public must use designated garbage bags, otherwise the municipal staff will refuse to collect garbage.
In the enforcement phase, people who do not use official garbage bags will be fined between $40 and $200 (about $310 to $1,500).
The weight of garbage and recycling in New Taipei City did not differ significantly during the promotion period of the garbage levy plan, but the reduction in the implementation stage was the most obvious.
Before the implementation of the garbage levy scheme, residents of New Taipei City discarded an average of 12.5 kg of garbage per month (in 2010, Hong Kong residents discarded an average of 26 kg of household waste per month) and recycled 11.3 kg of items.
After the implementation of the waste levy, the average amount of waste per person per month in New Taipei City has been reduced by 7 kg, an average reduction of 40%, and the recycling rate has been increased by 15%.
The results are similar to the experiences of Dutch and Korean cities.
In addition, the data of more than 10 years shows that the amount of garbage in New Taipei City has not rebounded significantly, which is the same as that in Japanese cities.
In other words, the experience of different cities over the past 20 years has proved that the waste levy has a significant effect on reducing the amount of waste and changing the living behaviour of the public.
Of course, to continue to reduce waste, we must start from the source.
From what resources are used, how to design products so that they can naturally return to a circular system when they complete their “life cycle ”, to the implementation of a circular economy, it is very important.
How urban people can sustainably use ecological resources to meet the needs of life is a big challenge.
Urbanization cannot be reversed. In the future, humanity will have to build more cities than it does now to accommodate the growing urban population.
These cities can no longer continue to deplete and squander our precious earth ’ s resources.
Towards a Green Life
The 21st century is known as the era of natural capitalism.
Who can use ecological resources most efficiently, reduce waste, and build a green economy as soon as possible, who can transform today ’ s unsustainable urban environment and economy, and get double dividends of green development – sustainable ecological environment and economic development, in order to build a city with social and spatial justice, and provide a livable environment for every citizen.
This requires stakeholders in different industries to work together to minimize the consumption of resources. It also requires each of us to learn to remove the concept of "garbage" from our daily lives, such as using environmentally friendly products, participating in "naked shopping", actively recycling, sharing what we have with people who lack it, practicing "separation", and enjoying a simple and cost-free life...
You may be surprised, but the introduction of the waste levy scheme is indeed an important step towards green living.
Notes: Wu, Shun-Wen & Lin, Lee-Kai (2021). Effects of a Unit-Based Pricing Program on Municipal Solid Waste: Evidence from New Taipei City.
Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 33 (2): 253-285.
The author is the Director of the Medium-City Studies Programme, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners and the Royal Institution of Planners.
(Criticism of current affairs articles published by this website is aimed at pointing out errors or deficiencies in relevant systems, policies or measures, with the aim of correcting or eliminating such errors or deficiencies, and improving them through lawful means, with no intention of inciting hatred, dissatisfaction or hostility towards the Government or other communities)
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"The current global recycling rate is approximately 8.6%."

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Content: Tzu Chi has been promoting recycling and other environmental sustainability in Taiwan for a long time. Based on the circular economy and circular jobs, Tzu Chi International Youth Club hopes to present the Taiwan style and local cases as soon as possible with the help of scholars and experts. This gives the younger generation a better understanding of Taiwan.
According to the organizer, the scope of work and the appearance of the workplace in the circular economy open up new career possibilities for young people who are committed to environmental sustainability and want to exert influence in their work.
This series of thematic discussions and activity initiatives is the first complete introduction in Taiwan, and it is worth more attention in the future.
Feng Yan, director of the Tzu Chi Foundation and a professor of social work at National Taiwan University, said that she has observed that more and more contemporary youth are beginning to attach importance to environmental issues, hoping to exert influence in their careers and become "non-waste youth" who do not produce any waste.
It is hoped that all generations will work together to improve the environment, and will be able to fulfill the vision of Master Shin Yen, who said, "There will be no disaster in the world, and there will be no harm in the world, and every year."
According to an international survey, by 2030, there will be more than 7 million new jobs related to the circular economy. The Netherlands is the country with the highest proportion of circular work in the world. Joel Marsden, a researcher at the Dutch non-profit Circle Economy, who gave a keynote speech at the forum, pointed out that about 100 billion tons of raw materials are invested in the global economy every year. Everything is ultimately wasted.
If you double the 8.6% cycle rate, you can control global warming below 2 degrees and slow climate change.
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Globally, less than 9 percent of materials are currently being recycled.

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Content: Study: 90 billion euros in potential profits from waste recycling in Italy
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A recent study has revealed that the potential profits from recycling waste in Italy would reach 90 billion euros, according to the Italian newspaper "Journal".
The study, conducted by the waste management and recycling sector at the US consultancy Penn & Company, said: “The world annually consumes 1.7 percent of the amount of resources the planet can simultaneously replenish, extracting 100 billion tons of new resources annually, of which only less than 9 percent are recycled. ”
The analysis noted that “this approach is no longer sustainable.
We must therefore seek a circular economy model capable of contributing to the development of European GDP by up to 7% and creating 2 million jobs on the old continent by 2030. ”
Almost 110 million tonnes of waste in Italy alone is devoted each year to recycling (more than 65% of the total waste generated annually), with a turnover exceeding €70 billion in 2022, and a total profit of around €12 billion.
According to the study, the waste recycling business is expected to grow over the next 10 years in Italy by 30%, bringing its profits to €90 billion, with an increase of more than 4 billion, to reach 16 billion by 2030.
In this context, the recycling sector will play a central role in the environmental transformation and the transformation of economic models from linear to circular. ”
“In fact, besides improving the use of resources and reducing waste production, it is necessary to make the collection, management and recycling of packaging materials, goods and products efficient and redesigned, ” the study said.
According to the company ’ s report, over the years Italy has been able to give life to prosperous operations, thanks to the initiative of several companies in it, to recover waste for re-operation of production, because it has always been a country characterized by the scarcity of raw materials, starting with metal and non-metal minerals.
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Less than 10% of the 400 million tons of plastic waste produced globally each year is recycled.

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Content: Global Garbage Disaster: Five Treasures to Protect Your Life ｜ Chen Shi-na
Author: Chen Shi-na
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Food box, coffee cup, hand shake drink cup such as a part of our life, produced a large amount of plastic waste.
Every year, June 5 is World Environment Day, and solutions to plastic pollution were the focus last year, with the world producing 400 million tons of plastic waste each year, of which less than 10% is recycled.
The top three producers of plastic waste per capita are the United States (130 kg per person per year), the United Kingdom (98.7 kg per person per year) and South Korea (88.1 kg per person per year).
Last year, the per capita daily solid waste disposal in Hong Kong was about 1.51 kg, of which plastic waste accounted for about 20%, that is, more than 100 kg per minute in a year.
Bulk plastic waste from bottled drinks
Some figures paint an alarming picture of pollution.
The world ’ s top four beverage manufacturers, including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Unilever, produce more than 500,000 tonnes of plastic pollution per year in six developing Chinese homes, enough to cover 83 football fields per day.
In addition to the plastic waste that is about to flood us, electronic waste from small toys and appliances to 3C is also a time bomb. In 2022, the total global electronic waste reached a record high of 62 million tons, and only 22% of it is properly recycled. Up to 82 million tons, the future is in jeopardy.
On 27 May, the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Cheuk Wing Hing, and the Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Mr Tse Chun-huan, attended a joint meeting on waste levies at the Legislative Council.
After the meeting, Tse Chin-huan was asked whether he wanted to be accountable for stepping down, but he did not respond, while Cheuk Wing-hing replied that Tse Chin-huan did his best and that the Government still supported his work and practices. (photo by Wong Hao-him)
Waste production is much higher than recycling
UN scientist Bud said: "The growth rate of e-waste production is five times the growth rate of recycling, according to this trend, in the war against e-waste, human beings are losing."
And about 800 million kilograms of second-hand electronic goods each year, like a garbage tsunami, are rushing from rich countries to developing countries, causing serious environmental damage.
These warning signs of pollution are not far away.
After years of fighting over the garbage levy, the Hong Kong government decided to put it on hold indefinitely.
This weak and impotent move has made the environmentally conscious Hong Kong people even more reluctant to recycle garbage.
Why not take a look at how plastic waste is recycled in Switzerland, where people don ’ t have to pay for items that can be recycled.
Local supermarkets are equipped with recycling stations, and the store that sells the product is responsible for recycling. People are used to returning recyclable plastic, batteries, tubes, filters, etc. to the store for recycling the next time they shop.
This kind of convenient service has resulted in a high recovery rate in Switzerland.
At present, there are about 53,000 R-PET PET bottle recycling stations in China, and the recovery rate is as high as 82%.
If people bring their own tableware, they can reduce at least five pieces of plastic.
(photo by Cheng Tze-feng)
For the general public, the best support is to practice the "five treasures", including lunch boxes, cutlery, water jugs, green bags and handkerchiefs. Try to use less or even no disposable plastic or paper products, the other is to leave no traces (garbage), and the more fundamental approach is to change ideas and habits from the source to remove unnecessary consumption.
Multinational groups also need to work, enterprises in the packaging of goods, towards the direction of "less plastic", "decomposable", in order to achieve immediate results.
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Less than 10% of the over 8 billion tons of plastic produced since the 1950s has been recycled, indicating a low global recycling rate.

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Content: An emerging domain of research shows that plastic consumption and pollution harms human health — particularly for the world’s lower-income communities.

This builds on a growing field of research revealing the dangers of plastic on the environment — especially marine ecosystems. Of the over 8 billion tons of plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10 percent has been recycled.

“Plastic threatens human health at every stage of its production pipeline — from the extraction of the fossil carbon, oil and gas, that is plastic’s main constituent, to its manufacture, use and disposal,” said Philip Landrigan, director of the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health and lead author of the Lancet Commission on pollution and health.

The connection between plastics and health was also highlighted in Africa by researchers from Stanford and the Technical University of Mombasa. After decades of hunting for mosquito-borne viruses in coastal Kenya, they received one of their greatest tips from a group of elementary schoolchildren.

The scientists had been trying to uncover the breeding grounds of mosquitoes causing a number of illnesses that regularly sicken over half of Kenya’s coastal population — including dengue, chikungunya and others that can cause severe fevers, headaches, rashes, joint pain, life-threatening bleeding and death.

With these diseases on the rise, researchers were teaching schoolchildren about the life stages and habitats of insects that serve as vectors. On a homework assignment to find immature forms of mosquitoes in their communities, the children discovered something unexpected — disease-carrying mosquitoes breeding in nests of plastic trash around their homes.

“We were astounded,” said Stanford pediatrician and researcher Desiree LaBeaud, who led the project. “The children’s discovery helped us realize that the majority of mosquitoes were breeding in plastic trash and other containers littering streets and people’s yards.”

Environment and health

It made sense: Plastic is watertight and can take hundreds of years to break down, creating a perfect habitat for mosquitoes. This groundbreaking discovery built on other recent findings connecting environmental degradation to human health — including the health effects of wildfire smoke, heat stress and the risk of pandemics caused by deforestation and other ecological disruptions. With climate change driving an increase in mosquito-borne illnesses, the need to limit their breeding grounds felt more important than ever to the researchers.

“We realized that we needed to look far beyond just treating the sick,” said LaBeaud, who is senior author on an upcoming publication in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on the topic. “To stop these diseases at their source, we needed to tackle the plastic problem.”

Plastics are closely tied to climate change, which the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has recognized as “one of the most pressing existential threats to human health,” in the words of NAM President Victor J. Dzau. Plastics use the same amount of oil as the entire aviation industry — and are expected to more than triple in their oil consumption in the next 30 years.

Moreover, the pollution caused by petrochemical plants — which are most often in lower-income settings — threaten the health of communities. “Plastic manufacture is inequitably distributed, with virtually all plastic production facilities located either in low- and mid-income countries or in poor and minority communities within high-income countries,” Landrigan pointed out.

After plastic products are released into the environment, they can break down into smaller pieces of plastic known as microplastics. While more research is needed, some findings suggest these virtually ubiquitous tiny plastic particles — that have been found in human blood — have the potential to disrupt immune and endocrine systems, damage organs, cause inflammation, increase cancer risk and possibly affect pregnancy outcomes.

Disposing of plastic waste also poses challenges. In places such as sub-Saharan Africa, as much as three quarters of all waste is burned, releasing toxic compounds and carcinogens into the air.

The infectious-disease research in coastal Kenya is a critical new dimension. Plastic pollution is exacerbating an already dire public health challenge — over 50 percent of people in coastal Kenya are regularly exposed to dengue and chikungunya, and at least 10 percent of febrile illness in the region is probably because of undiagnosed mosquito-borne viral infections. This pattern seems to be widespread — similar findings have emerged in South America and Asia.

The problem is not only the potentially deadly diseases themselves. With symptoms for some illnesses such as chikungunya lasting for up to months or years, getting sick could also mean missing school and days of work — and communities being kept in poverty, creating what some scholars call the “disease-poverty trap.”

“The case of plastics vividly illustrates how the industrial practices of the high-income world are intimately tied to the health and development of lower-income communities around the globe,” LaBeaud said. “Maintaining a healthy planet requires thinking carefully about how we produce, consume, and waste — knowing that downstream health impacts, especially on marginalized communities, won’t always be immediately apparent.”

Fighting a growing problem

Combating the plastic pollution in Kenya and other African countries involves addressing both exported recycling from high-income countries and an influx of new plastic products, especially single-use materials.

Kenya, along with 95 other countries, received more than 1 billion pounds of foreign plastic waste from U.S. exporters in 2019 alone. This roughly equates to a line of 18-wheeler semi-trucks full of plastic trash backed up for about 350 miles, stretching nearly the entire length of Florida. And it’s not just plastic trash imports — Nairobi also saw a quadrupling in plastic consumption over the same 25-year period that its population only tripled.

In response, Kenya banned single-use plastic bags in 2017 and banned all single-use plastic in protected natural sites in 2020. This is part of a larger movement to reduce plastic waste in Africa. The African Union, for example, has set a goal that 50 percent of waste used in African cities be recycled by 2023.

Communities across Africa have also started exploding with locally designed solutions — exploring opportunities to rethink waste management and recycling in ways that also support local economies.

For example, LaBeaud and Kenyan partners launched a nonprofit organization, HERI-Kenya, to engage policymakers, communicate the plastic-disease connection, and build business opportunities that allow for more locals to make a living collecting and recycling trash. This, they hope, can build the foundation for what is known as a circular economy for plastics, where the reuse and recycling of materials create a sustainable system of zero waste.

“When we remove plastic litter, we not only improve local environments — we improve human health, beautify our community, support local entrepreneurs and boost tourism,” said Francis Mutuku, a researcher at the Technical University of Mombasa and LaBeaud’s long-term collaborator. “Everyone stands to gain.”

Yet, despite the will to act, activists and lawmakers in Africa have found that the solution is not as simple as recycling or banning plastics.

With fossil fuels increasingly falling out of favor, actors such as the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and large oil companies are reportedly moving toward a new strategy, opting to turn oil into plastics and distribute them to external markets, including countries in Africa. While the ACC has denied efforts to undermine bans on single-use plastics in places such as Kenya, many of the companies it represents are still expanding their production and distribution of plastics.

Oil and chemical companies were reportedly planning to spend an estimated $400 billion on expanding plastics production as the biggest anticipated driver of oil demand — up to 95 percent by some forecasts — from 2020 to 2024, according to a 2020 Carbon Tracker analysis. From reporting around that same time, almost 350 new chemical plants were being planned in the United States alone.

In 2019, Chevron Phillips Chemical, a joint venture partially owned by Chevron, called petrochemical collaborations with Qatar Petroleum, now called QatarEnergy, “some of the safest and most successful assets in Chevron Phillips Chemical’s global portfolio” — including a new $8 billion project to develop a Gulf Coast petrochemical plant.

“From delivering fresh water and preventing food waste to supplying medical products used every day in hospitals worldwide, our materials help people live prosperous and healthy lives,” Chevron Phillips Chemical said in an emailed statement.

Chevron’s 2021 annual report noted that petrochemical projects on the Gulf Coast and in Qatar were ongoing. In a March presentation to investors, a Chevron executive said that demand and margins for petrochemicals are expected to continue to grow over the long term.

“With growing recognition around the negative health and environmental consequences of plastics, we do need to ask — why produce more?” Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health Director Michele Barry said. “Where are these new chemical plants being built, and which communities are the intended recipients of these products?”

Beyond recycling

Recycling is one of the most talked-about solutions for the plastics crisis.

“ACC supports scaling up advanced recycling,” said Stewart Harris, senior director of Global Plastics Policy at the ACC, in an email, referring to recycling technology that breaks down used plastics into their basic building blocks to create new, often reusable, products. “Since 2017, 70 advanced recycling projects representing over $7 billion in investments have been announced or are already operating.”

A wide range of companies have begun to invest in improved waste collection and recycling — for example, Chevron Phillips Chemical’s investments in circular plastics and Coca-Cola’s PETCO campaign in southern and eastern Africa.

“We encourage responsible disposal of PET packaging and recycling of the same to create a circular economy, which has an economic impact on those involved throughout the recycling value-chain,” said Scott Leith, a spokesperson for Coca-Cola, who acknowledged that the challenge of plastic waste requires multiple approaches.

While some local community organizations, such as Clean Up Kenya, have criticized Coca-Cola’s approach, advocates have noted that initiatives such as this one could allow simultaneous improvements in waste infrastructure, financial incentives for collectors and worker safety.

“Partnerships between governments and the private sector are critical to achieving universal access to waste collection, which forms the foundation of a circular economy,” said Harris, in an emailed statement. Other groups such as the Alliance to End Plastic Waste are also trying to engage a variety of companies and organizations to accelerate community-engaged solutions.

Yet researchers and policymakers have pointed out that recycling is no silver bullet, because of limitations in recycling capability and the environmental costs of producing plastics in the first place.

Moreover, according to a recent Reuters analysis, plastic recycling itself is forestalled by ongoing production: “Less than 10% of plastic is recycled, partly because new plastic produced by the oil industry is so plentiful and cheap.” For context, the $7 billion investment in recycling cited by the ACC is less than 2 percent of the $400 billion Carbon Tracker’s 2020 analysis ascribed to expanding upstream plastics production.

Kenyan activists, including Clean Up Kenya, are calling for more comprehensive upstream solutions — including banning single-use plastic bottles overall.

A 2020 report by SYSTEMIQ frames plastic collection and recycling as just one dimension of a strategy to reduce 80 percent of plastic pollution by 2040. Other critical channels of action noted in the report include reducing plastic consumption, substituting materials, redesigning products, securely disposing of the near-quarter of plastic that cannot be recycled — and, particularly relevant to Kenya’s plastic challenges, reducing “waste exports into countries with low collection and high leakage rates by 90%.”

“There is an urgent need to simultaneously rein in plastic production and use in countries at every level of income,” Landrigan said.

In line with this, the United Nations Environment Assembly agreed on March 2 to begin writing a global treaty that would restrict the expansion of plastic use. Industry members such as Coca-Cola and the ACC have signaled support for such a treaty in emailed and online statements, saying it would provide needed certainty to industries.

At the same time, some nongovernmental organizations have expressed concern about the treaty’s lack of global regulations. The ACC’s Harris has said his organization does not support overall caps on plastic production, contending that plastics play a necessary role in providing critical medical services. Health and environmental researchers, however, worry about the enabling of ongoing petrochemical expansion — and the health risks this brings.

“We can’t recycle our way out of our global plastic problem,” Barry said. “Without a fundamental reimagining of global industrial practices, we will continue to see dire impacts on the climate, the planet and our health.”

Erika Veidis serves as the planetary health program manager for the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, where she leads the Action Lab for Planetary Health, a program focused on moving Stanford environmental and health research to solutions.

Jamie Hansen serves as communications manager for the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, helping to amplify the work of the center and its fellows through storytelling and multimedia communications.

The Hong Kong government plans to implement a municipal solid waste charging system on August 1 this year, a practice that has been successful in other parts of the world in reducing waste generation and increasing recycling rates.

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Content: Waste Levy in many parts of the world urges public to pay attention to waste reduction
February 03, 2024 12: 58
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Ms Ho called for reducing waste generation and increasing recycling rates.
The Hong Kong Government has delayed the implementation of municipal solid waste charges until August 1 this year. The Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Promotion Council, Dr Ho Wai-ping, said today (3) that the waste charging system has been widely implemented in many parts of the world and has had some success. Charges and recycling system.
She believes that each area has different garbage bags and recycling bins, residents need to pay the corresponding fees according to the type and size of garbage, and also encourage residents to carry out waste separation and recycling at home.
In 2022, the per capita disposal of municipal solid waste in Hong Kong landfills reached 1.51 kg per day, compared with the daily disposal of many foreign cities of less than 1 kg, so the amount of waste in Hong Kong is quite high.
The waste charging system encourages the public to reduce waste generation and increase recycling rates. This will not only help reduce the burden on the environment, but also promote the sustainable development of the recycling industry and create more green jobs.
She believes that when people need to pay for their own waste, they will pay more attention to their own consumption patterns and actively strive to reduce waste generation.
She added that the implementation of waste charging also faces some difficulties and challenges, such as public understanding and acceptance, just like when you travel to other areas, you have to take away the waste produced, or do a good job of recycling.
What does it mean that the public may think that the government is just collecting extra revenue, but the waste is never automatically sent to the landfill, and it takes some procedures and a lot of resources to carry out, she pointed out that waste reduction is actually very simple, as long as the public actively do a good job of clean recycling, take "green in the area", do not have to pay for waste, and can also exchange for green reward points for daily necessities.

The Hong Kong government has put the implementation of the urban solid waste charging system on hold indefinitely.

The Hong Kong government has implemented an urban solid waste charging system as of April 1 this year, with legislation passed in August 2021, aiming to reduce waste and promote recycling through a 'polluter pays' principle.

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Content: Bauhinia Party ｜ Refresh Waste Charges
Author: 01 Forum
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Like most Hong Kong people, I did not have any concept or awareness of garbage collection, until I heard that it was officially implemented on April 1 this year, and I began to pay attention to it.
In fact, the legislation on waste charging has been passed by the Legislative Council as early as August 2021, and the specific provisions of waste charging are actually very simple and clear, that is, based on the "polluter pays" principle, all waste, whether from individuals, families or groups, or according to the pre-purchased designated garbage bags, or according to the weight of the waste, the "entry fee".
As for the government's intention to implement waste charging, it is also very clear and simple, that is, to force the public to reduce waste and recycle through charging, and promote the sustainable development of ecology.
Author ： Zhou Xiaojao
Although the rules are simple and clear, it is not so easy to really land.
In order to pay less, people will try to pack more garbage into garbage bags. How should those crowded garbage bags be tracked and handled? In order to pay less, people will dispose of their garbage in public places such as streets, parks, markets, shopping malls, etc., how should such behavior be identified and enforced? As for the different groups that produce large amounts of waste, as well as the property, cleaning, refuse collection and other organizations that assist in the disposal of waste, a series of countermeasures are also required.
It is in view of the complexity of implementation that the Government has set aside a preparation period of up to 18 months for the formal implementation of the Ordinance.
However, the general public, like the author, did not really start to pay attention to the new policy, which will affect every household, until the first two or three months of its implementation, and there was a lot of uncertainty and doubt. Ming. "
But the question is, is the disruption caused by garbage charges really just a problem of insufficient publicity?
How to deal with garbage is an old problem faced by cities, especially large cities.
Specifically, there are three core issues surrounding the garbage problem: First, how to control the amount of garbage generated? Second, how to encourage the classification of garbage management? Third, how to deal with different types of garbage? The first issue mainly relates to the source of garbage: how to avoid excessive packaging?
How to promote the environmental protection of packaging materials? The second issue relates to the recycling of waste: how to guide the public to separate and collect different types of waste according to the difficulty of recycling? The third issue relates to the fate of waste: simple stacking, centralized landfill or recycling, incineration and power generation?
In response to the above garbage issue, Hong Kong has not made a satisfactory response for a long time, let alone effective action.
The lunch boxes purchased on the street are still foam or plastic that cannot be decomposed. Shopping bags provided by shopping malls are also plastic products, and the goods purchased from the mainland are wrapped in plastic layer after layer.
There was a time when Hong Kong encouraged the classification of kitchen waste and the production of agricultural fertilizer from kitchen waste. Unfortunately, this good practice failed to persist, and the public has not formed a self-awareness of garbage classification.
A large amount of waste has been sent to the countryside to landfill without any sorting. The existing three major landfills are already overwhelmed, and facilities such as waste power generation have taken more than 10 years to start.
Solving the waste problem itself is a systematic project, involving all aspects, coupled with the interests of thousands of households and changes in living habits, so each country in the disposal of the waste issue mostly adopt a gradual, tailored, durable strategy.
Japan is recognized as the best country in terms of waste disposal. The key to its success is the gradual development of a sense of garbage sorting through half a century of sustained efforts and strict laws and regulations.
Mainland China also tries to start with garbage sorting, although there is a strong enforcement force, but the government still dare not play a game of chess across the country, but choose some cities to pilot first, and then gradually push to the whole country.
In contrast, Hong Kong, which has been lagging behind on garbage disposal, naively uses “polluter pays ” as the ultimate“ killer ’ s mace ” in an attempt to “get it done. ”
This mentality is understandable, but can a simple, one-size-fits-all waste charge really solve the waste problem facing Hong Kong?
Can you encourage eco-friendly packaging?
Can you promote garbage separation?
More importantly, can the current waste charging design really reduce the amount of waste generated?
I am afraid the answers to these questions are not as optimistic as the Government thinks.
If Hong Kong ’ s waste challenge is not effectively addressed, then what is the point of this policy, which costs the time and money of all citizens and stakeholders?
For example, in order to make up for the long-term inaction on reclamation, the SAR Government hastily launched the HK $trillion-dollar Lantau Island Construction Project in the absence of full consultation with the community, making it difficult for the project to ride under the current internal and external environment. The awkward situation.
The author is not sure whether garbage collection will also face similar experiences, but if the publicity and communication in the next few months can not convince the community that the relevant garbage collection policy can effectively solve the garbage problem faced by Hong Kong, then it is necessary for the SAR Government to suspend the implementation of the relevant policy, and redesign the plan to be more gradual and targeted, focusing on effectively solving the waste generation, waste management and recycling. A series of policies, and consistent implementation.
In fact, the above doubts about the government ’ s waste charging policy have emerged since the government first introduced the relevant bill to the Legislative Council in 2018.
Although the Bills Committee set up at that time to scrutinize the relevant bills supported the direction of the Government's waste reduction policy, it also made a large number of recommendations on the effective implementation of the relevant policies. Some members even held different views on whether the relevant fees could achieve the preset targets.
The Government has also responded to the views of the Bills Committee, including improving waste reduction and recycling measures and providing assistance to those in need.
Regrettably, these reasonable measures should be perfect in the two years after the passage of the relevant regulations in the preparatory stage either in the form, or the lack of publicity, and ultimately let this in the design of the innate deficiencies, in the landing and inadequate preparation of the waste reduction policy is likely to fall into the eyes of the public "workers hurt money" and abandoned halfway.
The author, Zhou Xiaojui, is a researcher at the Bauhinia Institute for Policy Studies.
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The Hong Kong government plans to implement the urban solid waste charging system after an 18-month preparation period.

"Japan is known for having one of the best waste sorting systems, being one of the most successful countries in waste levying and recycling."

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Content: Waste Levy ｜ Japan has been a model for decades, Okinawa Hong Kong families share the key to success
Author: Law Baoxi
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“I remember the first time we dropped garbage out of the streets in Japan, our family watched the whole process to see if our garbage was successfully handled, and finally the garbage truck was recycled. We clapped our hands, ” Oki-Family, a Hong Kong resident in Okinawa, told reporters.
Japan's waste levy and recycling has been implemented for many years, and the local domestic waste treatment, recycling and classification are very perfect, and recycling accounts for 20%.
It can be said that the relevant policies have long been integrated into the ordinary life of the Japanese people and become the local way of life.
If Hong Kong is about to introduce a waste levy, what can we learn from Japan?
This is part of the "Garbage Levy, How to Do It in a Foreign Country?" series.
Oki-Family, a family of three who have lived in Japan for eight years, now lives in Toyomi City, Okinawa Prefecture. The couple, Leung Sheng and Leung, recently shared with Hong Kong 01 the situation of local waste levies and recycling.
“There are many cities in Okinawa, and each city has its own system, so every time you move, you have to adapt and get used to it. ”
At present, our family mainly uses the largest garbage bag, which costs about 20 yen (more than HK $1.03) a.
The average monthly amount spent on waste collection and recycling is about 300 yen (over HK $16), "he said.
There are different waste management and recycling regulations in Japan. Levy standards vary from prefecture to city. According to Leung, Japan ’ s waste classification is much more complex than Hong Kong ’ s. It is divided into general waste, large waste and kitchen waste. newspaper and cardboard separately), etc.
For large garbage, such as mattresses and other items that cannot be placed in garbage bags, you need to purchase a sticker of about 300 yen (about HK $15.5) at a convenience store and paste it on the garbage that needs to be disposed of.
Other cities have the same treatment, but the amount may vary.
Oki-Family, a Hong Kong resident family in Okinawa, shared with reporters the complicated garbage sorting situation in Japan. (Provided by respondents)
Since most places implement self-paid waste levies, sorting and recycling has long been a “compulsory lesson ” for Japanese residents.
Every night, after dinner, their family will take the garbage outside the back door of the home, where a can be put on the garbage can; they also placed a large plastic box there to store the recycling garbage, such as fork batteries, glass bottles, soda cans, plastic bottles, etc., stored enough will be taken out.
On Tuesdays and Fridays, combustible waste is collected, soda cans are collected on Wednesdays, glass bottles and newspapers are collected on Saturdays.
Although the combustible waste contained in kitchen waste is collected only twice a week, there are few cases in the area where it stinks and affects environmental hygiene. “There are scents on the garbage cans in Japan that can suppress the smell, and I did try to have a slight effect, ” Leung explained.
And my own method is to put it outside the back door, because the position has been blowing for a long time, and it is almost impossible to smell without opening the lid. "
Over 70 years of off-the-shelf garbage sorting
In the 1950s, Japan entered a period of rapid economic growth, people's living standards have been significantly improved, and the amount of garbage has also increased sharply, and the phenomenon of littering can be seen everywhere, and environmental problems have become severe.
Later, the Japanese government took advantage of the opportunity of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games to launch a "capital beautification campaign" to awaken the people's awareness of environmental protection.
However, in the 1970s, local citizens protested the landfill site selection, and began to take actions to stop garbage trucks, and the protest lasted for eight years.
Until the 1980s, Japan began to carry out simple garbage sorting, and after decades of development, garbage sorting has become a standardized, systematic way of life.
As for the garbage levy scheme, Japan was introduced in the 1970s. In 2019, a total of 1,094 garbage charges were implemented in 1,741 cities, towns and villages across the country, with an implementation rate of 62.8%; among them, the urban rate was lower, only 56.2%.
However, Japan's domestic waste recycling is basically the responsibility of local governments, so different cities in the waste separation and treatment charges are not the same.
For example, in order to reduce and recycle the amount of garbage increasing year by year, local garbage is divided into five categories: "combustible garbage", "non-combustible garbage", "hazardous garbage", "resource garbage" and "large garbage". The first four categories have designated garbage bags, and large garbage has related "treatment coupons", which can be purchased at general convenience stores.
All kinds of paper (newspapers, magazines, cardboard, milk cartons) need to be tied into a cross shape with a paper rope.
All refuse should be disposed of by members of the public before 8.30 am on a specified date.
If the Government wants the public to follow suit, the most important thing is to make things convenient for them, and everything should be convenient.
Oki-Family
Japan ’ s waste classification was first seen in the 1980s, and has developed over the decades to form a standardized and systematic way of life.
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Fear of animals, care for neighbors, and...?
When she first arrived in Guijing, Liang Sheng said that she had long known that Japan had a policy of collecting and sorting garbage, so she was prepared psychologically.
When they first moved to Hong Kong to report to the local government department, they had received a relevant garbage instruction notice, "The average family will stick it in a prominent place, such as a refrigerator door or next to it, which is convenient to check when handling garbage daily."
After doing more, you will remember that you don ’ t have to look at it every time.
They added that the circular will also clearly state the arrangements for zoning, public holidays, special weather, special items, etc., which are basically very clear, and you can consult friends and neighbors if you do not understand.
They said that the charts provided by the authorities are detailed and clear, and it is not really difficult to follow them. "But the pictures may indicate that it is a certain type of garbage, but the details may indicate that some special circumstances will not be recycled."
The careful classification of this aspect, we still feel very troublesome at first. "
On the other hand, due to the different living environment and culture in Japan, there are other additional concerns about daily garbage disposal.
They remember the first time they dropped garbage out of the street, they heard friends say not to fall out of the street the night before, because there may be stray cats, crows and other garbage, there may be a chance to dirty the environment.
There is also garbage can not be taken out too early to remove, otherwise it may be scolded by neighbors. Liang Sheng Liang Tai admitted: "So in Japan, we have to be afraid of animals, we have to take care of our neighbors, and whether the garbage truck can finally be recycled after the garbage is sorted."
Japan is regarded as one of the most successful countries in the world in waste levying and recycling, winning in a zero-waste town. (Getty)
The best way to deal with batteries, soda cans and paper skins?
In addition, they also have to face the problem of garbage that can not be dropped.
They said: "The most troublesome is the battery, although some local appliance stores can recycle, but not all types, mainly the recycling of disposable batteries, but not the charging type.
In the end, they found information online, and learned that only a few electrical appliances stores in Naha can be recycled, but it is very inconvenient to drive to them, so they have been unable to abandon them for years, so they have to slowly store them at home and drive to a certain number of cars to deal with them.
What also makes them feel very annoying and very disturbing is the soda can and the paper skin. "In Hong Kong, these two kinds of waste are considered more valuable, and can be sold for a few pennies."
But in Japan, if you put a soda can in a plastic bag, they will not accept it, you have to buy a government-designated plastic bag.
They said: “The irony is that if you put it in a transparent plastic bag, there will be scavengers who will take it and sell it. ”
The Government will also appeal to households not to let waste pickers take them, as this is part of the income of waste collectors. "
Japanese newspapers and paper should be tied, even if only one piece, and tied with a paper rope, otherwise the workers will not recycle.
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They continued: "From our point of view, why buy a plastic bag for garbage collectors, instead of having a plastic bag left in the home before, no more money to waste, and it is not better to help the environment and someone to recycle?"
"If the paper is put out, it will not be collected if it is not tied up, and if it is scattered, it will not be collected, but even if it is placed in a paper bag, they will say that it is not tied up."
Even if it is not a piece of paper, it will not be taken, and every time I hear it, it is very important. "
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Although there are no penalties for garbage disposal in Japan, if garbage is not handled in accordance with the relevant guidelines, the relevant departments will not recycle the household's garbage and will indicate what is wrong on the household's garbage.
They said, "Not recycling is already a punishment, because you have to find a place to put this waste for another week."
However, they stressed, "Although the levies and recycling of local refuse may cause some inconvenience and trouble in daily life, environmental protection will be a blessing to the public if the Government is really able to do enough in handling waste from the environmental point of view."
After years of living in Japan, Oki-Family believes that the work of collecting and recycling waste is successful: “The most important thing is the education of the whole nation. They are supported by the government, businesses, and many large circles. ” Convenient."
Education is equally important, Mrs Leung added: “To make people feel that recycling from their urine is something they need to do and is part of their lives.
Naturally, more and more people will accept this. ” For example, their daughters will be taught classification from kindergarten, and simulation learning, teaching how to classify things, slowly making sorting garbage their instinct.
Liang Sheng-Liang of Oki-Family, a Japanese Hong Kong family, stressed that the policy focus is to enable every household to be hygienic when handling garbage, because the relevant garbage levy and recycling involve more than the purchase of plastic bags.
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It's not about plastic bags. It's about hygiene.
On Hong Kong ’ s imminent introduction of a waste levy, Mrs Leung said: “The biggest resistance is that the Hong Kong government is too weak at present, and even if they do well or not, the public may not like it. ”
The second is the habit of the public, who stressed the need for the government to give the public a sufficient period of adaptation.
They cited Japan ’ s policy as an example. “The Japanese authorities generally give a relatively long period of adaptation, for example, we will later change to electronic signatures, and the government will give the public two years to get used to it. The transition period in Hong Kong may be relatively short in years. ”
Garbage levy is actually a big thing, including the promotion of education, the awareness of the public is very important, if they lack awareness, they will not follow suit.
But this is a work that takes a long time to do, and it is not possible to do it in a moment or three.
They believe that the Hong Kong government should provide some further information, such as tips, such as how to dispose of garbage at home will be more hygienic and save space, so that the public can understand the specific situation facing the actual operation.
In addition, it can also provide various types of garbage disposal equipment on the market, such as deodorants and scents that can be attached to garbage cans of various sizes.
Finally, they reiterate, “It ’ s important for every household to be hygienic when it comes to waste levies and recycling, which involves more than just buying plastic bags. ”
This may also be one of the reasons why many people are dissatisfied or worried about the proposed waste levy. "

Japan is recognized for its excellent waste sorting system, having been one of the best in the world since 1980.

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Japan is one of the best countries in the world in terms of garbage sorting since 1980. Since April 1, 2017, it has taken two years to extract from 78,985 metric tons of white household appliances (mainly washing machines, refrigerators, etc.) and 6.21 million mobile phones. Out of 32 kg of pure gold, 3500 kg of pure silver and 2200 kg of pure copper, to create the 5000 Olympic medals to be awarded.
Through this plan, the Japanese government let the global public understand the importance of e-waste reuse, and improve the recycling rate of e-waste, of which 32 kilograms of gold is recycled and refined, the market price is more than S $2.19 million, making many people exclaim that the humble e-waste in life has huge value.
In order to reduce electronic waste, Austria launched electronic product repair vouchers, and the Dutch design team turned it into office furniture.
Austrian citizens can download maintenance vouchers to subsidize the repair cost of electronic products such as smart phones, laptops or dishwashers, and the subsidy amount is 50% of the repair cost, capped at about S $290, hoping to change the consumption habits of people.
The design team in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, promotes the “Ore Stream ” project, which uses electronic waste to make avant-garde office furniture.
For example, the computer casing forms a storage cabinet, and the aluminum plate is made into a chair, and is decorated by some mobile phone parts.
Implementation
In addition to resource recycling, we can do some small things in life to help implement the concept of environmental protection, such as: eat, use moderately, buy more do not become garbage; use more porcelain cups, environmental bowls, less paper cups and no washing tableware; bathe without bath, take a shower; do not throw things casually, reduce the production of garbage; home lighting equipment to save electric light bulbs, and develop the habit; Automatically turn on the temperature; recycle newspapers and oil you have seen; bring your own back bag or shopping bag when buying vegetables or groceries, and choose less packaged items.
Maintain the car well, not to let it smoke; often check the tires, because the lack of inflation tire is easy to break and consume oil; walk more, ride more bicycles; drive less, try to use public transport; promote subway, bus and cycling sports, and buy equipment and stationery made of recyclable materials.
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According to statistics, it takes ten years to plant a tree, but only a few minutes to cut a tree; babies from birth to two years old must use 20 trees for diapers; for every ton of waste paper recovered, 20 logs can be cut eight meters high and 14 centimeters in diameter; and recycled paper can be used to cut about 400,000 logs a month.
Therefore, recycled paper made of recycled paper can be recycled, in addition to reducing the amount of trees cut down, but also indirectly save water.
Some people have said such things: "The average life expectancy of human beings is getting longer and shorter, and the life expectancy of nature is getting shorter and shorter." Because of human health care and endless desire, nature's resources are limited and limited, it is really unbearable for human beings to continue to destroy such things.
If everyone is environmentally conscious and implements it in life, the earth will gradually recuperate and we can have a good and healthy quality of life.
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"Sweden and Norway are known for having effective waste sorting systems, with Sweden even importing garbage from neighboring countries to turn into energy."

Scandinavian countries are known for having effective waste sorting and recycling systems, with advanced secular states playing a significant role in organizing these processes.

"Countries such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Belgium have implemented effective waste sorting systems, including charging for garbage bags and designating specific times and places for throwing garbage."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have experience in reducing waste, including potentially food waste, through the use of garbage levies and volume charges."

"Japan has experience in reducing food waste through its meticulous garbage sorting system."

"South Korea has a successful waste recycling system, with a recycling rate of over 50%, which can be a model for reducing food waste."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have experience in reducing food waste and have implemented successful waste management practices, including detailed garbage classification and recycling systems."

Several countries have experience in reducing food waste, including Britain, France, Denmark, China, Finland, Malaysia, Japan, India, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.

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Minister of Information reviews the indicators of food waste globally and the most prominent international experiences to address it
Hamdi Abdallah - Cairo, November 29, 2022 11: 19 AM - The Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (CIDSS) has issued a new issue in the "World Trends" series, which aims to monitor and analyze the most prominent regional and global changes and developments.
A recent UN report on climate change noted that significant action should be taken to avoid global warming above 1.5 ° C by 2030, so food loss and waste are among the most pressing challenges to be solved.
According to FAO estimates, the global volume of food waste is estimated at 1.6 billion tons of primary production equipment, total edible food waste is 1.3 billion tons, the United Nations estimates the direct economic consequences of food waste at $750 billion annually, while the carbon footprint of food waste is estimated at 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere annually. Methane emissions from landfills are one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector.
According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), household food waste – those items that are expired or rotten in tanks or refrigerators – totals approximately 570 million tonnes annually, 11% of global food production, 8% of food is wasted at harvest, 14% en route to the retail market (during transport, storage or processing), and 7% at the retail level. Food services and nearly 40% of all food produced never reach the people most in need.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest source of carbon dioxide in the world after China and the United States, food waste is also a waste of water, where 250 square kilometers of fresh water is wasted annually to produce food lost, and a quarter of the world ’ s fresh water is used to grow food that will never be eaten. There is an acute water shortage per second, which is expected to reach nearly 4 billion people by 2050.
When food is lost or wasted, all the resources used to produce that food – including water, land, labor, energy and capital – go to waste. Food produces methane, which is 25 times more harmful to the environment than carbon dioxide.
The global food waste disposal unit market is expected to grow from $1.90 billion in 2021 to $2.12 billion in 2022 at a CAGR of 11.3%, and the market is expected to reach $2.80 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 7.3%.
The main types of food waste disposal market include: Shattered waste disposal devices, dry waste, and grinding waste disposal devices. It includes a garbage reception room with a rotating disk at or next to the bottom with blade propellant parts. The demand for food waste disposal units is expected to increase due to population growth, rapid urbanization and increased consumption. 2025.
The Global Strategy to Improve Rural Agricultural Statistics, developed by FAO as a blueprint for a coordinated, long-term initiative to address the deterioration of agricultural statistical systems in many developing countries, aims to provide a framework for national and international statistical systems to enable developing countries to produce and apply basic data and information needed in the 21st century. To generate clean energy by converting food, agricultural or other biological waste into a mixture of gases that can be used as fuel.
Private investment in US food waste reached $4.8 billion in 2021, compared to $3.7 billion in 2020, and US start-ups raised investments of nearly $300 billion in 2021, an increase of almost 100% over 2020.
The issue also dealt with the experiences of some countries in the fight against food waste, including Britain, France, Denmark, China, Finland, Malaysia, Japan, India and the United Arab Emirates, the most prominent of which is the United States of America, which waste each year amounts to approximately 40-80 billion pounds to represent 30-40% of the total food supply in the country, which is equivalent to 219 pounds of waste per person. "California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont" laws restrict the amount of food waste disposed of.
Redistributing unsold or excess food and recycling and treating food waste were important components of its national waste management strategy to work towards becoming a waste-free country.
Expo 2020 Dubai highlighted the need to reduce food waste, and all participants agreed to reduce food waste as a key actor in the future of humans, explaining that it is a social, environmental and economic challenge that must be addressed collectively.
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Scandinavian countries have implemented successful waste recycling projects, with the state playing a role in organizing the process.

"Several countries, including Belgium, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, have implemented successful waste recycling projects, such as charging for garbage bags and designating specific times and places for throwing garbage."

"Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are implementing waste recycling projects through garbage levies to regulate citizen classification and reduce waste."

"Japan is implementing waste recycling projects, including requiring residents to use transparent bags for garbage sorting and proper wrapping of recyclable waste paper."

The Trends Center for Research and Consulting published a study on the European circular economy model.

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A study by Trends reviews the European experience in promoting the circular economy
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Trends Center for Research and Consulting has published a new economic study entitled “The European Experience in Promoting the Circular Economy: Development Impacts and Lessons Learned for Growing Countries ”, which seeks to provide objective and comprehensive insights that are appropriate to the conditions of the growing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, especially in the issue of liberating domestic economic resources and protecting them from harm. Once in use, once in a while.
The study, prepared by researcher Sultan Al Rubaie, Vice President of Economic Studies at Trends, presents and analyzes the content of the European Union ’ s experience in waste recycling activities, to draw lessons learned and write broad outlines for African and other economic policy makers in the world ’ s growing countries, especially in light of the current economic challenges.
The problem of waste of economic resources
As developing countries seek to develop their domestic economies, the most important obstacle facing economic policymakers is the growing waste of economic resources, both natural and / or human and / or financial.
She pointed out that the waste of economic resources does not only mean that they are employed in an unproductive way, or in a way that is less productive, but also includes manifestations of environmental pollution in a wide variety of ways.
Environmental pollution reduces efficiency in all economic activities - investment, production and export - and also detracts from the quality of life and human development indicators in the economy.
The study stated that in the case of the developing economy, and based on the African experience, the suffering from waste of resources and pollution of the environment is becoming more apparent, especially in light of the widening gap between these countries and the countries that have made economic progress in several areas, as well as the protection of the environment more focused.
The study provided an example of the European experience in managing natural resources, rationalizing their use and increasing their productivity, protecting them from pollution, recycling and reintroducing them - perhaps more than once - into economic activity, as an important model full of lessons learned.
Maintaining sustainable environmental indicators
It concluded that the diverse resources of the African economy have been a fundamental reason for the need of African countries to develop the assets of the circular economy, as the concentration of their economic activities in the extraction and export of these resources has made the rates of depletion of these resources accelerate as their development needs increase and their economic problems worsen, especially in the context of a crisis international context.
She stressed that the ability of African countries, as a clear example of developing countries, to preserve their depleted resources, to employ these resources optimally, to make the most of them, and to maintain sustainable environmental indicators, all require serious work and rapid transformation in the activities of the circular economy.
The main dilemma, however, is whether the targeted circular economy activities should focus solely on recycling domestic waste locally or expanding its export abroad.
Each economy on the African continent had characteristics that made one solution preferable to the other.
In any case, the localization of high-value-added economic activities - in Africa - calls for upgrading the technology employed in this sector.
In this regard, circular economy development activities in Africa could start with the export of waste and trade it for the import of specialized technology for local recycling operations, so that it can later become self-reliant, or rather self-reliant, under an integrated plan sponsored by the African Union, in order to free African natural resources from rapid and unaccounted waste or depletion.
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TRENDS Research and Consulting Center published a study on the European circular economy model.

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Content: Trends Study Analyzes European Experience in Promoting Circular Economy
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TRENDS Research and Consulting Center has published a new economic study, entitled “The European Experience in Promoting the Circular Economy: Development Impacts and Lessons Learned for Growing Countries ”, which seeks to provide objective and comprehensive insights into the situation of the growing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, especially on the issue of liberalizing domestic economic resources and protecting them from misuse. One time, another time.
The study, prepared by researcher Sultan Al Rubaie, Vice President of Economic Studies at Trends, presents and analyzes the content of the European Union ’ s experience in waste recycling activities, to draw lessons learned and write broad outlines for African and other economic policy makers in the world ’ s growing countries, especially in light of the current economic challenges.
As developing countries seek to develop their domestic economies, the most important obstacle facing economic policymakers is the growing waste of economic resources, both natural and / or human and / or financial.
Wasting economic resources does not only mean using them unproductively or in a low-productivity way, but also includes environmental pollution in a wide variety of ways.
Environmental pollution reduces efficiency in all economic activities - investment, production and export - and also detracts from the quality of life and human development indicators in the economy.
The study stated that in the case of the developing economy, and based on the African experience, the suffering from waste of resources and pollution of the environment is becoming more apparent, especially in light of the widening gap between these countries and the countries, which have made economic progress in several areas, in addition to protecting the environment more focused.
The study provided an example of the European experience in managing natural resources, rationalizing their use and increasing their productivity, protecting them from pollution, recycling and reintroducing them - perhaps more than once - into economic activity, as an important model full of lessons learned.
It concluded that the diverse resources of the African economy have been a fundamental reason for the need of African countries to develop the assets of the circular economy, by focusing their economic activities in the extraction and export of these resources, making the rates of depletion of these resources accelerate as their development needs increase and their economic problems worsen, especially in the context of a crisis international context.
She stressed that the ability of African countries, as a clear example of the developing countries, to preserve their depleted resources, to employ these resources optimally, to make the most of them, and to maintain sustainable environmental indicators, all require serious work and rapid transformation in the activities of the circular economy.
The main dilemma, however, is whether the activities of the targeted circular economy should focus solely on recycling domestic waste locally or expanding its export abroad.
Each economy on the African continent had characteristics that made one solution preferable to the other.
But in any case, the localization of high-value-added economic activities - in Africa - calls for the upgrading of the technology employed in this sector.
In this regard, circular economy development activities in Africa could start with the export of waste and trade it for the import of specialized technology for local recycling operations, so that it can later become self-reliant, or rather self-reliant, under an integrated plan, sponsored by the African Union, to free African natural resources from rapid and unaccounted waste or depletion.
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The European Union's recycling target for municipal waste by 2025 is 55%.

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Content: Circular Economy : 18 EU Member States at risk of missing waste targets

Which countries are at risk of missing the 2025 targets for preparing for re-use and recycling of municipal and all packaging waste and the 2035 landfill target? The European Commission answered this question in a recently published early warning report. But first the good news. Nine Member States are on track to meet the 2025 targets: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Slovenia.

And just as a reminder, these are the targets set out in the Waste Framework Directive and the Directive on packaging and packaging waste we are talking about:

  • 55% recycling and preparing for reuse of municipal waste;
  • 65% recycling for total packaging waste;
  • and material-specific packaging waste recycling targets (75% for paper and cardboard, 70% for glass, 70% for ferrous metals packaging, 50% for aluminium, 50% for plastic and 25% for wood).

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Bad news for some countries

And now the bad news: 18 Member States are at serious risk of missing one or both of the 2025 targets.

Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, Spain and Sweden are at risk of missing the municipal waste target.

Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovakia are at risk of missing both the municipal waste and the total packaging waste targets for 2025.

In addition, some countries continue to landfill most of their municipal waste and are likely to miss the 2035 landfill target. The Commission is making recommendations to these Member States, building on the ongoing financial and technical support provided to improve waste management performance. These recommendations cover a wide range of actions: reducing non-recyclable waste, increasing re-use, promoting separate collection, developing treatment capacity for sorting and recycling, improving governance, using economic instruments and raising awareness.

"Implementing waste reduction and recycling measures on the ground is key for our circular economy transition. Turning waste into resources helps us on the way to climate neutrality, increases the security of supply of energy and raw materials, and creates local jobs and innovation opportunities. The early warning report allows us, in close cooperation with the Member States, to detect shortcomings, take action ahead of the deadlines for meeting the targets, and share best practices in sound waste management," said Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

Waste generation on the rise

On average, Europeans generate 530 kg of municipal waste per person per year (waste from households and similar waste from businesses). Although it is increasingly recycled and less landfilled, municipal waste (MSW) is still one of the most complex waste streams to manage. In the EU, about 50% of MSW is recycled or composted and 23% is landfilled. The amount of packaging waste generated is constantly increasing. Between 2013 and 2020, the amount of packaging waste generated in the EU will increase by 15% to almost 80 million tonnes. Around 64% of packaging waste is now recycled, although this varies by material. More than 75% of paper, cardboard and metal packaging is recycled, but less than 40% of plastic packaging - a problem in most EU countries, many of which are at risk of missing the material-specific target for plastic packaging waste recycling.

The early warning report allows us, in close cooperation with the Member States, to detect shortcomings, take action ahead of the deadlines for meeting the targets, and share best practices in sound waste management.
Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

Significant differences between Member States

Looking at the report, one thing is clear: There are considerable differences in waste management performance across the EU. Some countries still have a long way to go to meet the targets agreed in EU legislation and further reforms are needed, in particular to ensure the treatment of biowaste, which accounts for a third of municipal waste, to ensure separate collection of waste - a prerequisite for recycling - and to improve data quality. However, most EU countries have introduced or are in the process of introducing waste reforms to improve recycling rates, some of which are expected to bear fruit in the coming years.

The results were also influenced by external factors, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced or stopped separate collection in some countries. The recent rise in energy prices is also having a negative impact on recycling activities.

The early warning report builds on the Environmental Implementation Review, which had already identified problems with the implementation of EU waste legislation. In particular, almost 2000 illegal or substandard landfills are still operating in the EU, representing a significant source of pollution and greenhouse gases and a missed opportunity for the recovery of secondary raw materials.

The European Union aims to recycle at least 55% of its municipal waste by 2025.

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Waste Collection Vehicle Market Size, Share Report by Loader Type, Vehicle Propulsion: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2022-2032

NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, UNITED STATES, January 29, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- Waste collection vehicle, also known as garbage collection vehicle, dustbin lorry, bin van, bin lorry, trash truck, is used to collect garbage from various places in the city and dump/transport it to a landfill or a waste management center. This vehicle may differ in size and design country to country, as this is available with separate covered compartments for dry and wet garbage. Some of these vehicles are equipped with hydraulic systems for lifting and dumping the trash in the landfill or at the garbage collection center.

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Increasing amount of waste driven by increasing population and urbanization, growing focus towards effective waste management are some factors expected to drive the global waste collection vehicle market during the forecast period. According to The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, India, per capita waste generation ranges between 0.2 Kg to 0.6 Kg per day in cities with population ranging from 1.0 lakh to 50 lakh. Furthermore, the integrated solid waste management system is also used on a large scale globally. It is basically defined as a strategic method for management of solid wastes, that covers all sources and aspects, covers generation, separation, transfer, sorting, treatment, recovery, and dumping in a prescribed manner.

In addition, the government initiatives towards clean environment are also propelling the demand for waste collection vehicles globally. For instance, EU countries have decided to recycle at least 55% of its municipal waste by 2025, 60% by 2030, and 65% by 2035. These countries also decided to manage the landfill issues by reducing it to 10% or less by 2035. However, slow and no adoption in underdeveloped countries and high capital investment is expected to hinder the market growth during the forecast period.

Automation in Vehicle Design
With the increasing demand for waste collection and management, the vehicle manufacturers are investing in new-age technologies such as vehicle tracking, IoT, radio-frequency identification to ease the waste collection process. Technoton, European advanced machinery telematics provider, offers garbage truck monitoring system that monitors the garbage level in the vehicle and track locations for garbage loading and unloading. It also helps to control unauthorized dumping of garbage.

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By loader type: The waste collection vehicle market is categorized by loader type; front loaders, rear loaders, automated side loaders, and others. Front loader vehicles are equipped with hydraulic forks on the front to lift up the garbage bin by using slots on the sides. Rear loaders can be used for any kind of collection whether it is garbage, soil and others. The automated side loaders are mainly used for residential routes. An automated arm is controlled by driver from inside the truck. The arm grabs the trash and dumps it in the truck.
By technology: The waste collection vehicle market is segmented by technology; manual and automated.
By vehicle type: The waste collection vehicle market is divided by vehicle type; light duty vehicles, medium duty vehicles, and heavy duty vehicles. The demand for medium duty vehicles is growing constantly due to increased usage of trucks for delivery, pick-up, small dump, and lighter garbage collection applications. These trucks are gaining momentum due to their short turning radius of around 10-15 meter and greater visibility.
By vehicle propulsion: The waste collection vehicle market is categorized by vehicle propulsion; internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric. ICE vehicles are equipped with heat engines. It sometimes also known as gas powered vehicles. Electric vehicles are either partially or fully powered on electric power.
By end-use: The waste collection vehicle market is categorized by; municipal, industrial, and others.

Regional Overview
Asia-Pacific has a considerable market share in waste collection vehicle market, due to increasing population and urbanization. According to World Bank, East AsiaPacific is expected to generate 602 million tons of waste per year by 2030, followed by South Asia with 466 million tons waste per year. However, Middle East and Africa is expected to be the fastest growing region in terms of waste generation due to increasing industrialization and tourist's footprint. Thus, the industry players are striving to expand their business in these markets to capture large pie of the market. For instance, in 2021, Terberg RosRoca Vehicle Manufacturing Company inaugurated a modern manufacturing facility in Dubai industrial city. It is aimed at providing products and services in UAE along with support operations in adjacent GCC countries.

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Competitive Analysis
Competitive analysis and profiles of the major players in the waste collection vehicle market such as AMA S.P.A., EcoZeta S.R.L., EnviornmentalSolutionsGroup, Fratelli Mazzocchia S.P.A., and others.

Companies are focusing on merger & acquisitions and establishment of new manufacturing facilities to expand their market reach. For instance, in April 2022, Heil Environmental acquired Canada-based Boivin Evolution Inc., which specializes in designing and manufacturing all types of all-electric refuse collection bodies, to enter the fully electric automated side loader market.

Key Market Players
.FAUN Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG
.Bridgeport Manufacturing
.Curbtender Sweepers, LLC
.Heil Environmental
.Ceec Trucks Industry Co. Limited
.IVECO S.p.A
.Haul-All Equipment Ltd.
.Geesink B.V.
.Terberg RosRoca Vehicle Manufacturing LLC
.EZ Pack

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"Finland has an effective deposit return scheme, introduced in the 1950s for glass bottles and expanded to include plastic drinks containers 20 years ago."

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Scottish bottle deposit scheme to be blocked – but evidence from Europe suggests it’s the way forward

Unrecycled drink containers are a huge problem in the UK. A survey by Planet Patrol, a non-profit organisation, found that the drinks industry was responsible for more than a third of the litter found in the UK in 2020 and 2021. The items included plastic and glass bottles, metal drinks cans, single-use cups and lids.

This is a concern. Litter takes years to degrade, causing harm to wildlife and habitats, and cleaning it up is expensive. Street cleaning costs UK taxpayers an estimated £1 billion each year.

The Scottish government has proposed a deposit return scheme. People will pay a 20p deposit when they buy a drink in a single-use container, which they get back when the empty bottle or can is returned. Scottish drinks containers would also need to be specially labelled and tracked.

But the scheme is under threat. The UK government is unlikely to agree to the trade exemption needed to enable trade rules in Scotland to differ from the rest of the UK. And critics argue that a deposit return scheme will be difficult for smaller retailers in an already competitive sector due to the costs of handling returns and registering with the scheme.

However, similar schemes in other European countries have prevented huge volumes of litter from entering the environment. These deposit return schemes offer insight into how effective a measure they can be and provide a possible route for implementation in the UK.

Evidence from Europe

In Finland, a deposit return system for glass bottles was introduced in the 1950s and continues today, having included plastic drinks containers for the past 20 years. The scheme is operated entirely by the private sector, with 5,000 plastic container-return machines located across the country in shops, hotels, restaurants, offices and schools.

Each time a person buys a drink in a bottle or a can, they pay a 15 to 40 cent deposit, depending on the material the container is made out of. The containers are then recycled or the materials are reused on their return.

Almost every bottle and can in Finland is recycled as a result of the scheme. In 2020, Finnish residents recycled 94% of aluminium cans (out of 1.4 billion sold) and 92% of plastic bottles (out of 530 million). By contrast, just 82% and 57% were recycled in the UK respectively.

Norway has achieved an even more impressive recycling rate of 97%. Norway’s deposit return approach is instead supplemented with an environmental tax imposed on bottle producers. The tax is NOK 6.46 (£0.50) per unit of metal and glass and NOK 3.91 (£0.30) for plastic items. To avoid the tax, producers must recycle more than 95% of the containers they produce.

Plastic bottles usually end up being “downcycled” into other items, like fleece materials. But the tax has encouraged producers of plastic bottles in Norway to make bottles easier to recycle by using more uniform and less contaminated materials. Efforts have included using approved bottle tops and glue and labels that are easier to remove. The quality of recycled plastic in Norway is now so high that recycled bottles can be made into new bottles.

Plastic recycling schemes in Europe have also delivered social benefits. The Finnish system allows people to choose to collect their deposit or donate it to charity. In Berlin, those not inclined to return their bottles to the store can leave them under bins for others to collect and claim the reward.

Public acceptance

The success of a deposit return scheme largely depends on what happens to the item once it is returned. Success is not based on economic viability alone. Any deposit return scheme needs to be acceptable to the people who run and use it.

Cost-benefit analysis of two separate deposit return schemes (recycling and reuse) for plastic food trays in Sweden found that the costs are greater than the benefits for recycling, but not for reuse. If you consider the costs involved in packaging, washing and the recycling process, then a return scheme may work best if the item is reused.

In Scotland, concerns about how the scheme will run and its real benefit are chipping away at the confidence of the public and drinks retailers. Research finds that many people in Scotland are unaware of how the deposit return scheme would operate and why it is necessary. Some of the study’s participants even perceived the refund charge as another form of taxation imposed by the Scottish government.

Communication plays a critical role. A different study, which explored the public acceptance of a deposit return scheme in Catalonia, Spain, revealed that the way a scheme is presented to users and how much information is given influences how it is perceived. More information (given over the phone) tended to yield a more positive viewpoint.

Clearly, more information is required for Scotland’s recycling scheme to be accepted more widely.

If designed correctly, deposit return schemes can encourage recycling by raising the value of plastic waste. Recycling and reuse schemes are also made more technically and economically viable if backed up with tax incentives.

But the barrier facing the adoption of a deposit return scheme in the UK is a lack of uniformity. We should not be asking if Scotland should adopt a scheme or not. Instead, plans for the rest of the UK to adopt this approach should be accelerated to get the whole of the UK on the same page.

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"Finland and Norway have effective deposit return schemes, with Finland achieving a 94% recycling rate for aluminium cans and 92% for plastic bottles, and Norway achieving a 97% recycling rate, making them examples of successful waste sorting and recycling practices."

"Norway and Finland have effective deposit return schemes, with Norway's scheme producing high-quality recycled plastic and Finland's system allowing charitable donations."

"Germany has a successful deposit return scheme that has increased recycling rates, and it could be a model for other countries to follow."

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Which is more effective for incentive discounts and price increases?
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After the United Nations launched the "2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" in 2015, the global consensus on sustainable development has gradually been formed and actively promoted.
In 2022, countries successively released the latest plastic reduction policies, Canada's single-use plastic ban will take effect in December; China announced that it will phase out the use of plastic bags by the end of 2022; India also announced that it will ban, produce, import and sell 19 "single-use plastic" products, including washing tableware, straws, candy box film packaging and so on.
In Taiwan, since July 1, 2022, the "Restriction on the Use of One-Time Drink Cups and Implementation Methods" has also been officially launched, requiring beverage stores, chain stores and other businesses to provide customers with at least NT $5 discount for their own environmental cups.
Since 2002, Taiwan has implemented the first plastic restriction policy: restricting the use of plastic bags and plastic washing-free utensils, and banning plastic bags with a thickness of less than 0.06 mm, and the road to plastic reduction has been 20 years.
In the past 20 years, from plastic bags, straws, to disposable drink cups, plastic reduction action continues to expand, for the latest disposable drink cup plastic limit new law, how is the implementation of other countries?
Most of the plastic waste comes from advanced countries, and the United States produces 105 kilograms of plastic waste per capita.
According to a study in Science Advances, Volume 6, Issue 44, published in 2020, the top three countries in terms of per capita plastic waste production in 2016 were the United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea.
The United States produces 105 kilograms of plastic waste per capita per year, which is equivalent to using 4,038 empty 600cc plastic bottles a year.
The United Kingdom and South Korea followed closely behind each other with 99 kilograms and 88 kilograms of plastic waste per capita per year.
It is worth mentioning that although Germany is ranked fourth, it is the country with the highest recycling rate of plastic packaging, and the recycling rate of plastic packaging in 2016 has reached an astonishing 99.4%.
US states have different plastic reduction policies and attitudes.
With such a staggering amount of plastic waste production, the United States is not doing nothing.
For example, the United States of Hawaii and Honolulu banned the provision of plastic bags and disposable tableware for shopping on January 1, 2021; New Jersey did not actively provide plastic straws from November 2021; California passed a new law in July 2022, requiring California to ensure a 25% reduction in single-use plastic by 2032, and requiring that at least 30% of plastic products sold or purchased in California be recyclable by 2028.
Although many parts of the United States have successively legislated to curb the use of plastic, but in view of the different regulations in the United States, there is a gap in support for environmental protection and plastic reduction, and it is difficult to implement plastic reduction related policies nationwide.
Britain's "latte tax" policy fails to impose taxes to reduce consumer willingness
In the United Kingdom, which is the runner-up in the production of plastic waste, the average British people use 7 million disposable coffee cups a day, and less than 1% of them are recycled.
On 5 January 2018, the Environmental Monitoring Committee of the UK Parliament proposed a "latte levy" of £0.25 per cup of disposable coffee, with a target of 100% recycling of disposable coffee cups by 2023, and a total ban on the use of disposable coffee cups if the target is not met by 2023.
The paper cup alliance, an environmental group that supports paper cup recycling, believes that the tax will affect consumers' willingness; local companies also believe that the government's policy of plastic restrictions is chaotic and does not solve the problem of disposable paper cups can not be recycled, which can be said to be the cause of the problem.
Coffee paper cups are difficult to recycle because the paper cups are not made of pure paper, and the inner layer has a coating (PE or PP material), so coffee paper cups cannot be recycled at a standard recycling plant.
Because of the complexity of the recycling process and the fact that there are only three recycling sites in the UK that can handle special materials, recycling is not easy, even if the tax is imposed, it cannot strengthen recycling.
Germany ’ s long-term incentive system for recycling drives up recycling rates
In Germany, as early as 2003, the implementation of the "return guarantee", people in the supermarket to buy bottled drinks need to pay extra deposit, glass, plastic materials of small beverage packaging and aluminum cans will charge 0.25 euros per deposit, and for the capacity of more than 1.5 liters of packaging containers, each 0.5 euro deposit will be returned as a mechanism to encourage recycling.
In German supermarket chains, there are automatic recycling machines for empty bottles.
Consumers can put a complete PET bottle that meets the specifications into the recycling machine and collect the deposit at the counter with the receipt.
The “Refund Margin ” beverage bottle recycling system enabled Germany to achieve an impressive 95% recycling rate in 2018.
There are automatic empty bottle recycling machines in German supermarkets. As long as the consumer puts the full empty bottle recycling machine into the machine, he can claim the deposit with the receipt.
South Korea keeps up with the "trend" to promote the one-time drink cup deposit system, but it is controversial and delayed.
South Korea, one of the "three major countries of plastic", consumes an average of 3.3 billion single-use plastic cups per year, according to local media.
In order to solve the huge amount of plastic waste, South Korea revised the Resource Conservation and Recycling Promotion Act and plans to implement a one-time beverage cup deposit system in June 2022.
Korea's one-time beverage cup deposit system is similar to Germany's "return deposit", but there are the following problems: (1) the deposit is not clearly stipulated, (2) the barcode label used for recycling scanning needs to be purchased (burden), the purchase amount is difficult to estimate.
(3) The problem of cleaning and storage of the cup, the operator is worried that the customer will return the cup without cleaning, and the uncleaned cup will be stacked in the storage area, which will bring about hygiene problems.
Due to the above problems, the implementation of the one-time beverage cup deposit system will be delayed until December 2022, and the Korean Ministry of Environment is proposing solutions to various problems.
Looking back, there are still challenges to Taiwan's disposable drink cup limit.
In general, national governments implement plastic reduction policies through legislation, economic measures (such as taxes or fees on producers, sellers, and consumers), or a combination of policies (such as prohibiting shops from offering plastic bags and charging consumers for plastic bags), in addition to additional fees and incentives.
The British latte tax is a simple legal regulation. Although the tax collected will be used for the development of environmental protection policies, but for consumers, it is more like a "punishment" and therefore fails. As a result of the system's failure to implement it, it was delayed by a backlash from the industry.
Taiwan's new plastic reduction policy on the road, the (own) environmental cup people do have an increasing trend.
According to the "new environmental protection system on the road! Will you join the ranks of plastic reduction?" questionnaire survey, since the implementation of the policy, usually do not bring your own green cup, the discount from 1 to 3 yuan to 5 yuan, will increase the proportion of willing to bring your own green cup to 77.6%, which shows that the incentive of the "reward system" is significant, but the degree of implementation remains to be seen.
But even so, although the number of people using green cups has increased, it may also be a temporary trend; whether the current policy is feasible, how to achieve an average between business and consumers, and to create a system that is acceptable to both business and consumers in Taiwan, and which can be implemented for a long time, is a long way to go, but it is a sure way to go.
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"Norway and Finland are global leaders in recycling aluminum cans and PET bottles, with high recycling rates due to effective deposit return schemes and environmental taxes."

Brazil is a leader in recycling aluminum cans and PET bottles, with a recycling rate of over 98 percent.

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Quarter till three, time to back in the pickups at the Keep Alliance Beautiful Recycling Center. Stepping out the door, I see someone who needs the space first: small red SUV, number 69/Dawes County plates. Yep, the lady from Crawford who returns whenever she has a full load.

We lift animal feed bags stuffed with sorted materials out of the back. Some are set aside for later, others dumped to be filled again for the next trip. The focus is always unloading the vehicle quickly and efficiently while checking whether there are any questions or if they need any boxes or bags back.

Today, our dedicated recycler from up north brought two passengers curious about our operation. She introduced her in-laws who were visiting from Brazil. Her mother-in-law asked a few questions as her father-in-law snapped a photo or two on his cell phone. I described what we recycle here in Alliance along with the volumes KAB handles on an annual basis and where everything goes. A cell phone handled much of the translating. Tell the device what to say in English and a couple seconds later the phone repeats the same sentiment (I assume) in Portuguese.

Telling somebody new about the recycling aspect of KAB is always a fulfilling experience. When the opportunity happens at the recycling center, they can see first hand the next step for whatever was dropped off from cardboard to cans or bottles. There is often a greater sense of involvement when you see more of the process.

The couple from Brazil was impressed with what happens to their daughter-in-law’s dropoffs. Later, I realized I had missed an opportunity to ask about recycling in their community. I admit that my focus is usually on how we gather, sort and process material at KAB. Recycling and environmental issues in Nebraska are next. I consider the national picture with a broader brush and rarely think about how other countries tackle the same challenges.

Global environmental news, more often, is about an overall phenomenon like climate change that affects everyone. However, Brazil has been prominent for decades due to deforestation in the vast Amazon rainforest. The amount of carbon dioxide these trees take in is key when addressing the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. On other environmental issues, Brazil rates higher:

Brazil is the leader in the recycling of aluminum cans and PET bottles, at over 98 percent (www.aventuradobrasil.com)

The country has over 46 percent of its energy from renewable sources (www.weforum.org)

I would like to see nations share methods of their environmental successes and do more to combat challenges. Brazil gains more than twice as much of its energy from renewables than the United States. Of more interest in my arena, I’d like to know how it is possible to recycle almost all of the PET bottles and aluminum cans consumers empty. Is it because they value the environment more or is there a financial incentive to turn them in?

Next time, I’ll make sure to ask new visitors more about how they keep their community beautiful.

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Germany has implemented the 'Refund Margin' beverage bottle recycling system, which includes automatic recycling machines in supermarkets, allowing consumers to deposit empty bottles and receive a refund, resulting in a 95% recycling rate in 2018.

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