Epidemic Prevention and Kitchen waste Battle 10 "(Hsinchu Miaoli) Total inventory of Kitchen waste production and removal capacity in Taiwan

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If African classical swine fever breaks out tomorrow, food waste will immediately become a battlefield. Are all places ready? "upstream and downstream" contact local environmental protection bureaus for first-line information. This article aims at the inventory of Miaoli and Hsinchu counties. Please read the special series for other counties and cities.

(background note: the following food waste recycling figures are official statistics, but many food waste pig farmers say that the official statistics on food waste are not accurate, because there has been a long-standing situation of "reporting more than food waste" in the process of food waste recycling. Private operators drive minivans with buckets of food waste on them, so they accept them everywhere, mostly for households, snack bars and night markets, which may not be included in the statistics. )

Miaoli County: the kitchen waste is about 107 tons. If kitchen waste is prohibited, incineration will be adopted.

Cai Zhengxun, spokesman for the Miaoli County Environmental Protection Bureau, said that the statistics of household kitchen waste (generally waste) in Miaoli County is 41 tons, and the raw food waste in some areas is not classified. After the cleaning teams of the 18 township public offices have returned the waste, they will use the kitchen waste as composting in the composting grounds of their respective township public offices, while the kitchen waste recovered from the food listening (institutions) is 66 tons, which is usually recooked and fed to pigs by pig farmers, which add up to about 107 tons.

Miaoli County has a total of 127 black pig farms, ranking sixth in Taiwan. If pig raising with food waste is banned in the future, how will Miaoli County respond? Tsai Cheng-hsun said that in the short term, he will return to various township offices for composting. At present, 41 tons of household food waste is treated by an average of about 2.7 tons per public office, plus 66 tons from public institutions. The Environmental Protection Bureau estimates that each public office can handle up to 10 tons. In the long run, incinerator removal is still necessary.

As to whether the burning of kitchen waste in the incinerator produces dioxin, Tsai said that the production of dioxin is mainly due to the combustion of combined plastics. The incinerator is equipped with 24-hour monitoring equipment, and you are not worried about immediately notifying you of any abnormal emissions. However, if an epidemic breaks out in the territory, what should be done with the carcass of pigs? Tsai said that the incinerator had a rule that corpses could not be incinerated, and the construction did not include the design for the production of corpses, so it would not crowd out the capacity of garbage disposal.

Hsinchu County: household waste is 30 tons per day, but many kitchen wastes cannot be controlled by self-circulation.

Luo Shichen, deputy director of the Hsinchu County Environmental Protection Bureau, said that at present, the household recycling (general waste) of the cleaning team is 30 tons per day, but the true amount is higher than this, because there is a lot of food waste that cannot be calculated and circulated in pig farms. It comes from both households and restaurants.

Luo explained that because of the rural lifestyle in Hsinchu, many households feed their own food waste to chickens and ducks, and even many pig farms put a bucket nearby. People around them pour their food waste into buckets after eating at seven or eight o'clock, and pig farms take the buckets to the pigs. Generally, garbage collection is at four or five o'clock, and they can't get it at all. If it is in the city center or in the Zhubei community, the cleaning team will get it better.

Before July last year (2018), the food waste collected was sent to a composting plant under its jurisdiction for disposal, which could digest 20 tons a day. In the middle of the year, due to the refurbishment of the equipment, the operation is now suspended and all is handed over to the pig farmers. At present, restaurant operators also hand over their food waste to pig farms that have applied for "reuse check."

The composting yard is currently under repair, and there is no incinerator, so if you enter the kitchen waste, you can only dig holes and bury it.

There are 215 pig farms in Hsinchu County, ranking third in the country. In the past, food waste was highly dependent on the elimination of the pig industry. If there is a total ban on raising pigs with food waste, how will Hsinchu County respond? Luo said that after the fertilizer plant has been renovated, it can handle up to 60 tons per day, but this will not start operation until July this year (2019). If it is forbidden to raise pigs with food waste before this, and there is no incinerator within the jurisdiction, it may be dehydrated first and then dig holes for burial. As for the removal of food waste, Luo said frankly, "We are actually very upset about what we can do."

Luo said that there are mostly small pig farms in Hsinchu County. when an equipment inspection was conducted in December last year, pig farmers all had cooking equipment, and they all applied for animal husbandry registration with agricultural administrative units. "traditionally, they (pig farmers) must cook, because if they don't cook his pig, they will get sick, and pig farmers will want him to grow healthily." However, the number of breeding heads of these small pig farmers is only more than 20 or 50, and now they have to pass the reuse check, and there are a lot of documents submitted and registered on the Internet, which small pig farmers simply cannot bring up. Luo said that at present, during the first inspection, the Environmental Protection Agency had a preliminary understanding of the situation of various pig farms, but now it is constantly promoting it.

In addition to raising pigs, the kitchen waste of Hsinchu County is also sent to the composting plant, but the composting site is temporarily closed due to annual repairs (photo source / Hsinchu County Environmental Protection Bureau)

Feature articles:

Epidemic Prevention and Kitchen waste War 01 "directly hit the kitchen leftovers to raise pigs, pig farmers: this is our life and property, we are more afraid of darts than anyone else!"

Epidemic Prevention and Kitchen waste War 02 "Pig Farmers' Civil War: food leftovers are risky and outdated. VS Kitchen wastes can be classified in detail except for high temperature cooking.

Epidemic Prevention and Kitchen waste War 03 "expert opinion: if you want to use kitchen waste, you must achieve 100 points, or leave the industry!" Distinguish between meat and non-meat in kitchen waste to reduce risk

Epidemic Prevention and Kitchen waste War 04 "Food waste ban is in a hurry, and the EPA jumps"Classical Swine Fever has not yet come in, the country is already in a mess."

Epidemic Prevention and the War of Kitchen waste 05 "opportunities and challenges for composting! Local kitchen waste can be made separately, even Daan Forest Park.

Epidemic Prevention and the War of Kitchen waste 06 "General inventory of the production and removal of Kitchen waste in Taiwan (Liudu)

The Battle of epidemic Prevention and Kitchen waste 07 "Total inventory of production and removal of Kitchen waste in Taiwan (Yunlin Pingtung)

Epidemic Prevention and the War of Kitchen waste 08 "Pingtung has something to say: the ban on kitchen waste has an impact on the black pig industry chain, and non-food waste feed also needs to be paid attention to.

The Battle of epidemic Prevention and Kitchen waste 09 "Kitchen waste forward electricity is very powerful, with 250 metric tons of Kitchen waste per day, with an estimated annual production of 60,000 households."

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