Refreshing beverage bottles become a major source of pollution in Taiwan

According to Taiwan’s “China Times” report, refreshing beverages have caused liver damage, and it has become an environmental killer. Consumers have been thrown away and flooded with polluted communities such as parks and construction sites. Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency's “EPA” estimates that last year more than 90 million bottles of unrecovered amino acid refreshing beverages in Taiwan became a new pollution issue.

There are two kinds of glass containers in the island: transparent and colored (coffee or green), and the use of refreshing drinks is the largest, followed by Taiwan's Green Beer Bottle Company. Colored glass bottles have been colored and reused as recycling methods are not as good as transparent glass bottles, and the recycling rate is not ideal.

Taiwan Administration’s “EPA” Recycling Fund Management Committee stated that it currently subsidizes recyclers’ glass containers at 0.8 yuan per kilogram (NTD, the same below) as Taiwan Glass Company’s subsidy for transparent glass is 2 yuan per kilogram, colored glass. Only 1.2 yuan, under the economic incentives, resulting in transparent glass recovery rate higher than the color glass.

According to the latest statistics from the “EPA”, the amount of glass containers recovered in the island exceeds 190,000 tons. However, based on the business volume and audit certification, there are 16% and about 50,000 tons of rogues. Convert a bottle of 300 to 400 grams, which is more than 90 million bottles, almost all colored glass bottles (containers), especially refreshing beverages (amino acid drinks) that are well known to Taiwanese people.

Lin Jianhui, executive secretary of the Resource Recovery Fund Management Committee, said that the glass container manufacturers that currently pay for the removal and disposal fee are the refresher drinks, followed by the wine traders. Most people drink beer in restaurants and snack bars. The refreshing beverage consumer groups are mostly workers such as construction workers or truck drivers. As a result, parks, construction sites, and other empty bottles of beverages have been drunk. Even farm fields are everywhere. Farmers have been cut by broken glass and have long been an alternative public hazard.

The Resource Recovery Fund Management Committee pointed out that at present, it has cooperated with the industry to develop a variety of non-ferrous glass reuse pipelines, such as the production of tile, red brick and other environmental protection building materials, hoping to increase the recovery rate. At the same time, the industry is invited to assist in the promotion of recycling in merchandise advertising. The industry has initially promised that “advertising will be considered in the next quarter”.

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