Beitou Incinerator Director - Mr. Fu
1.How many years you work here?
I've been the director for six years, but do these related jobs for almost 30 years.
2. What kind of chance for you to get this job?
After employment after graduation exam, I was assigned to the EPA, they would feel the job is very interesting, to say the package hills sea, not just pipe garbage, but also control of air pollution, water pollution ... and so on, so this is a lower status, began to engage in environment-related work.
3. How many employee here?
Our factory currently has one hundred fifty-three establishment employees, plus two dozen support staff, there should be close to one hundred and seventy.
4. How to employ people work here?
Staff to go through the national exam to enter the incinerator work, and workers hired by the staff management rules.
5. What is the chracteristic of Beitou Incinerator?
The first feature is the Beitou incinerator used to be Southeast Asia's largest incineration plant in Taiwan to maintain, can burn 1,800 tons of garbage every day; but now, because of manufacturing large garbage continent, has more incineration plants, more than 2,000 metric tons per day to burn . Another feature is the emissions from the chimney of 150 meters high, but in the chimney of 120 meters and there is a revolving restaurant, you can eat while views of Taipei Basin, the most special is that the restaurant will slowly rotate, you can see 365-degree views. In the 116 meters at a viewing platform, no rotation, you can see the scenery around himself. There are a local resident. In order to repay the establishment of the court, gym, swimming pool and nursery ... can give local people discount or even free to use.
6. Is there any data show us that waste reducing and recycling related?
In fact, "waste reduction, recycling," this is that we have implemented two years, a relatively large amount of recovery time in Taipei is 89 years beginning in the Republic, when implementing the special garbage bags, garbage bags to use as a dedicated money most of the people in order to save money, it will start reducing household waste classification, said that the use of data, probably has about sixty-eight% reduction.
7.How much power can be produced by incinerator?How to deal with the surplus power?
Each burn a ton of garbage can produce 450-480 degrees of power. Relatively simple data, the incinerator to burn garbage one day be able to provide a small family of four a month starting power, while the surplus will be sold to Taipower energized us.
8. How many years have incinerator been used?How long can it be used?
Has been running for sixteen years, and our good machine if the change in the machine age, incineration plant life can be up to five years or more; and the civil part as do proper maintenance and consolidation, but also can be used more than four decades .
9.How to improve the air pollution problem caused by incinerators?
No matter what the burning will produce air pollutants, but we incinerator air pollutants are to use the machine to make a minimum, so most no problem.
10. How to handle and use these recycling material?
Taipei has 12 zones, we recycle points north six districts, six districts south enable manufacturers to contract, he will pay to us, by comparing them to do fine classification, the auction will take re-use, can be roughly divided into flat stereo and bulky waste.
11.In addition to burning waste in incinerator, what can it do?
Goal is to replace the incinerator established landfill, incineration of rubbish left behind by reducing the size and weight of about 18% of the original, plus some subsequent processing, in fact, environmentally friendly center.
12. What troubled you when work?
What they have learned in their own expertise to play, so basically it should not have too much trouble.
13.Before taking garbage to burn, what would you do at first?
Because through our advocacy, and now we will be divided into many categories and almost finishing a good, large garbage we'll take it and then burn broken, so basically just checked again take to burn it.
14.What is your difficulty when built the incinerator?
Because it is plain, if there is a plain chimney incineration plant there, then people will have doubts, so there must be some controversy. However, we will provide some explanations and assurances, and now we have done very well equipment, as well as feedback and add facilities where some residents used to complain residents is relatively less.
15.What is these garbage become after burning? Where to put it?
In what temperature 850-1050 degrees burn after a 13 to 15% of the bottom of the slag and fly ash, these two things is going to deal with post-burn incinerators, we almost always make concrete backfill or embankment.
16.Can each garbage truck dump trash in incinerator? Is there any fee?
EPA's garbage trucks are all able to come free, and non-governmental private garbage trucks not only to go through the approval also charges a Dayton 1858 yuan to come.
17.How much garbage can incinerator deal each time?
1800 Dayton day to burn, but we have four furnace, a furnace day to burn 450 Dayton.
18.What can incinerator burn ? Anything?
Our design is co-firing is the incinerator, in fact, to be recycled things can burn, just burn it is a pity, can not continue to use, so you can use the recovery took him, nothing can not burn, but some nonflammable things will be a lot of burnt ashes.
19. Private recycle industry in Beitou is legal?
Our current approach is based on persuasion, we hope to be able to resource recovery, so that the treasury can have some income, but legislation does not expressly provide not.
20 .Are there more recycling plants in Beitou because of nearing incinerator?
Downtown will be relatively small, because there is a demand will have a recycling field, but did not divide the region.
21.Would burning produce undecomposite garbage？
Basically burnt garbage incinerator ash reuse form, does not form a so-called years of garbage, but not something that would naturally form some bottom slag, you must pay your people deal with, if not do a good job recycling, burn plastic bags and other things will form acidic gases, but also will increase the cost of some processed, unnatural things through incineration incinerator also make life cut short.
22.What would do when the useful life of the incinerator is up？
Incinerator there will be so-called life issues, including the garbage more or furnace repair and maintenance, will be transported to other parts of the incinerator to do processing, will prolong the life of the incinerator after waste reduction, so that the incinerator can operate longer as to destroy or stop functioning, the government decided to do some policy.
Experience Sharing
To the incinerator, the first in our class to visit Fu director, originally we thought the director did not empty, deputy director, later found to be the director of the canning "Fu", the director said that sometimes people say they have to find Fu director, there are employees looking for a deputy director, really dumbfounding ah!
During a visit to the director, I think he is very kind to let us know some of the relevant information about the incinerator, such as: incinerators have made those back facilities, which make money ...... incinerators have really learned a lot. To the white egrets school, the director also, and we play games with prizes levy answer, everyone in joy into small green Daren.
2015 Li-Nong Elementary School , Taipei , Taiwan - Recycle Pioneer
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