This is the General Waste Management project plan for Taoyuan County Government Environmental Protection Bureau (Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau), mainly to assit Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau with general waste disposal facility operations management, implementation of which is divided into five main projects: First, strengthen the landfill Operations management and quality improvement projects for landfill site operation; Second, the implementation of bottom ash and fly ash stabilization compounds control and inspection and supervision work; Third, build and mentor the renovation waste collection, removal, disposal and recycling system, and supervision mechanism in Taoyuan County; Fourth, to help Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau supervising and managing incineration plants and waste incineration plant audit evaluation in Taoyuan County; Five, miscellaneous matters and related assignments.
The first task focuses on examining the 6 active landfill sites and the 5 closed restoration sites in Taoyuan County. Due to many existing defects in the current operation of sanitary landfills, it’s necessary to urge them to improve by evaluating and mentoring the work, which includes:
1. Survey operations.
2. Mentoring control operation.
The execution results suggest the examination of the 11 landfill sites in Taoyuan County has been completed, as well as the follow-up review. Most of the landfill operations are self-managed by the local authorities. Due to funding problems, currently the work for correcting the defects and construction improvement has not commenced. Taoyuan Country Environmental Bureau’s assistance is required for applying funding for improvement. For personnel management and field records, most of the landfill sites have improved significantly according to the follow-up examination, but still need to keep checking in the future. In addition to landfill site examination, the proposed improvement plans have been submitted after the evaluation against each landfill site was completed. The plans including: Hollowed foundation improvement proposal for Longtan Township Dianzihu waste landfill site, construction improvement programme for the waste landfill site in Baochang village, Guanyin Township, as well as the landfill site monitoring facilities plans (including four landfill sites: Daxi Township, Longtan Township, Guanyin Township, Guishan Township.)
The second task is about bottom ash and fly ash stabilization compounds control and checking of supervision. To assist Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau to monitor the grade-two quality control system for recycling combustion waste bottom ash and fly ash stabilization compounds process.
The outstanding tasks include:
1. Assit to set up the Monitoring Group for quarterly audit work.
2. Monthly on-site audit work.
3. Assit Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau to review the quality of recycling plan and monitor implementation.
Audit work completed during the project period include: completion of 12 sessions of the incineration plant with consigned bottom ash recycling plants, bottom ash reuse sites checking 8 sessions per month, bottom ash monitoring group set up to check the work 4 sessions per quarter, two review and audit sessions this year to check operations for bottom ash recycling, and 12 sessions per month for checking the fly ash stabilization compounds for the final disposal site. Also, consigned qualified testing company for conducting sampling and testing the combustion bottom ash recycled raw materials every month, 12 times completed. (inspected items include: TCLP heavy metals and dioxin testing once per month, plus a quarterly basis test on water-soluble chloride ion concentration), all the test results did not exceed the annual regulatory standards
The third task is to build and mentor the renovation waste collection, removal, disposal and recycling system, and supervision mechanism in Taoyuan County. The planned work contains: 1. Preliminary work plan, 2. Establish renovation waste collection system, 3. Process and recycling project, 4. Education awareness programmes, 5 Set up monitoring control system. Work completed during the project period: One session of recycling business workshop, one session of household renovation waste recycling workshop in Chiayi County and Taichung County, one seminar session about access control in public landfill site in Yangmei City, conducted field interviews in town halls/City offices in four townships inc. Daxi. After compiled the recommendations from all parties and referred to the execution experience of recycling renovation waste in the other counties, the system for household renovation waste application and removal in the Taoyuan County has been established. To ensure that the received waste is handled properly and to avoid having hazardous waste mixed in, which could cause problems in the final disposal, assorted application and access control forms were developed. In December 2010, Taoyuan City Cleaning Team has completed the first batch of renovation waste application and removal.
In addition, according to renovation waste removal plan and evaluation of the needs of equipments, labor, and funding during implementation period, assit Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau in writting, "Taoyuan County renovation waste recycling project funding applications ". It’s to apply for funding required during the execution period under EPD.
The fourth task is about helping Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau supervising and managing waste incineration plants and waste incineration plant audit evaluation in Taoyuan County. This is Taiwan's first and only provider of the largest transfer BOO (Build - Operate - Own) waste Incineration Plant. For continuing supervision and management of incineration plant operating status in Taoyuan County, the incineration plant audit committee was set up for an evaluation in Taoyuan County incineration plant. Even though the evaluation results show the pollutant emissions are well below regulatory standards, evaluation committee members still recommended that the incineration plant should analyse and discuss against the changes and tendencies of the pollutants.
The fifth task is about miscellaneous matters and related assignments, including:
1. Work review meetings once a month. 2. Coordinate with the matters from EPD assessment. 3. other administrative operations and assignments. Many assignments completed during the project period include: built the basic database of landfill sites, Compiled inspection data, regular update and compile bottom ash recycling online application system, and built bottom ash recycling data files, bottom ash recycling application paper work check and validation, and coordinated with EPD audit activities. Helped Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau to prepare assessment documents, failure rate statistics of incineration plants and landfill site field inspections, and periodic reporting to the EPD and other tasks assigned by Taoyuan County Environmental Bureau.
