By Liao Hsueh-ju / Staff reporterJhubei (竹北) Mayor Ho Kan-ming (何淦銘) has pledged NT$120 million (US$4 million) to clean a landfill site in his Hsinchu County city after residents voiced sanitation concerns. The central government has offered NT$84 million and the county government has budgeted NT$36 million for the project, the Jhubei Environmental Protection Bureau said. Jhubei City councilors Chen Su-tsen (陳素珍), Chung Guo-chang (鍾國章) and Tseng Chin-ching (曾金清) said that residents have complained about the swelling and messy landfill in the past month. Jhubei garbage collection section head Wang Kuei-sheng (王貴生) said that since a waste incinerator in Hsinchu has stopped operating, the trash in Jhubei and Sinfong had increased to more than 4,500 tonnes. About 30 percent to 40 percent of the trash could be re-sorted, recycled or burned, while the rest could be buried, the bureau said.

Source: Taipei Times May 08, 2017 16:11 UTC