Huang Huan-chang shows reporters in 2016 evidence of industrial waste from a fish farm in Tainan. “That’s why I’m still an assistant professor.”Huang Huan-chang, left, joins a press conference last August to criticize the government’s regulation of industrial waste. Electronic industrial waste can still be found on the banks of the Erjen River. Huang says the government’s broad designation of certain types of industrial waste as “reusable” in the name of sustainable development is problematic. “We talk about a circular economy, but it’s circulating poison into the soil,” Huang says.

Source: Taipei Times April 27, 2021 15:56 UTC