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With climate change, accelerating global warming, and waste pollution, the threat to the earth’s environment is gradually increasing. Developing energy conservation and carbon reduction, and a circular economy has become the consensus and strategy of urban governance. The Taipei City Government put forward the White Paper of the Circular Taipei—Circular City Promotion Plan in 2018, which put the circular economy thinking into practice in the policy plan for 2018 to 2020 and continued to move towards a sustainable city with specific actions. In order to understand the infrastructure and construction of the circular economy in the city where we live, teachers led us to visit green buildings, ecological parks, green products, ecological farms, etc., through which we got a direct observation of the infrastructure and construction of the circular city currently has been completed by Taipei City from all aspects.
1.Natural resources
(1) Water: build a sponge city and recycle waste water
Pave sidewalks and permeable pavements in parks widely.
Harvest rainwater and utilize the system to supply water for park landscaping, irrigation, or flushing.
Treat waste water and renovate pipelines.
Utilize reclaimed water. Dihua Neihu Sewage Treatment Plant can treat up to 25000 metric tons of reclaimed water per day through sludge drying treatment.
Low-carbon facilities in communities: rainwater harvesting system.
Permeable pavements in parks.
Use the reclaimed water from the sewage treatment plant to clean the plant floor, tanks, equipment, and machines; irrigate plants and flush toilets.
With one more centimeter in land water absorption, the “sponge city” can contain the equivalent water amount of more 1000 swimming pools.
(2) Electricity: expand and set up solar photovoltaic system and smart grid
Use space to widely set up solar photovoltaic systems.
For four types of fields, such as social housing, campuses, government offices, and parks, the introduction of a combination of solar photovoltaic, small wind power generation, energy storage equipment, and energy management systems has become a smart micro grid demonstration site.
Build urban kitchen waste energy power plants.
By subsidizing private buildings, Taipei actively promotes apartment buildings and compound houses to install solar photovoltaic equipment.
Taipei produces 180 tons of pig and compost kitchen waste every day, and the biogas generated from kitchen waste treatment is used for power generation.
2.Living materials
(1) Food farmers: promote garden cities, develop urban farming and actively promote surplus food exchange platforms.
Build Park and restore wetland in the pastoral base.
Green or plant edible plants in idle space.
Market vendors donate the surplus fresh food materials sold every day and arrange group cooking to donate to social welfare and vulnerable groups.
The community makes use of idle space to build a happy farm.
Whether it is a building or an apartment, as long as it has a roof, you can grow your own farm.
(2) Living: Sustainable living and service demonstration
Building social housing to protect the rights and interests of the disadvantaged.
Social housing implements the concept of circular economy by renting instead of buying and using environmentally-friendly building materials to promote the recycling and sustainable utilization of social housing resources.
The social housing in Taipei City implements the concept of circular economy through rent instead of purchase and the use of environmentally-friendly building materials.
To solve the residential problem of citizens, either the municipal government itself or the private sector will be encouraged to set up houses for rent instead of selling.
3. Urban infrastructure
Promote green transportation, including incentives for commuting, expanding the bus network, and promoting and charging facilities for electric vehicles.
Sharing economy promotion—Ubike.
Sharing Ubike reduces the use of private transport.
By using the iRent car share service, people do not need to buy cars.
Gradually eliminate diesel buses and achieve the electrification of buses in urban areas of the city.
Build a friendly environment for electric vehicles, and set up charging poles for electric vehicles in public parking lots.
4. Green industry: promoting and supporting the new development of the green economy with the concept of “cherishing things culture” and “circular economy.”
School education: courses related to circular economy, such as Food Safety Carnival, food education, and 4C1Q school meals.
Community promotion: for example, friendly farming promotion, handwork of recycled materials, Yanhui second-hand books library, maintenance learning platform, Good Relations and Libraries, etc.
Incentives and subsidies for green production and development: encourage private institutions to participate in policy loans and investments in energy conservation and carbon reduction, green energy, and circular economy industries.
Green service procurement: promote green procurement in government institutions, schools, and private markets, and build a sustainable resource market environment.
The purpose of the Food Safety Carnival is to let consumers feel at ease about the quality and source of the food materials they eat.
With “4C1Q,” seasonal, local and traceable ingredients can be used.
Sort and classify the old books collected by the cleaning team and send them to those in need.
Through maintenance, we will promote the spirit of cherishing things and practice circular economy.
Use the space in the park to read, exchange books, and convey the fragrance of books.
Provide a number of green industries such as entrepreneurship, R&D, brand, education, and incentive subsidies.
Although the above only partially introduces the construction of the circular city of Taipei City, it can be seen that Taipei City has made concrete achievements in the planning of the circular city. However, efforts still need to be made achieve the ideal circular city. There is room for growth, which should also be accelerated and actively implemented.
References:
Industrial Development Bureau, Taipei City Governmenthttps://reurl.cc/KQ960M
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Industrial Development Bureau, Taipei City Government
Taipei City Government Environmental Protection Bureauhttps://sdg.gov.taipei/page/cn_area3/35
Tourism Communication Bureau, Taipei City Government
https://www.travel.taipei/zh-tw/pictorial/article/22444
https://www.travel.taipei/zh-tw/pictorial/article/24354
Taipei City Government Urban Development Bureauhttps://www.udd.gov.taipei/article/zmvsr7g
The Epoch Timeshttps://www.epochtimes.com/b5/17/6/2/n9218792.htm
Power Newshttps://today.line.me/tw/v2/article/Gyg0Q6
Taipei City Government Environmental Protectionhttps://www.dep-secondhand.gov.taipei/
city repair stationhttps://nothingisgarbage.com/partners-nanjifix/
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