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Environmental impacts of food waste: Learnings and challenges from Taiwan
Environmental impacts of food waste: Learnings and challenges from Taiwan
Current status of recycling industry
Bornstein, D. (2018, August 15). The Conflict of Interest That Is Killing Recycling. The New York Time.
Support your point of view
Bornstein et al. (2018) maintained that, in the US, most major recycling companies are actually owned by landfills.
Opposite your point of View
The US government can regulate the recycling of waste management companies.
Problem
Recycling has not yet been successfully implemented in the United States
Solution 1
Encourage manufacturers to reuse materials .
Solution 2
The use of standardized labels on recycling bins can help mitigate recycling errors.
Taiwan's food waste management
Thi, N. B. D., Kumar, G., & Lin, C. Y. (2015). An overview of food waste management in developing countries: current status and future perspective. Journal of environmental management, 157, 220-229
Support your point of view
Thi et al. (2015) claimed that Taiwan’s food waste management model is the one of the best for developing countries .
Opposite your point of View
I have personally seen many Taiwanese people dispose of food waste in environmentally unsafe ways.
Problem
Many Taiwanese people still lack the basic awareness of proper recycling techniques.
Solution 1
The Taiwanese government must educate its people in recycling’s importance.
Solution 2
The government should enforce improved recycling standards.
Environmental concern
Jekria, N., & Daud, S. (2016). Environmental concern and recycling behavior. Procedia Economics and Finance, 35, 667-673.
Support your point of view
Jekria & Daud (2016) indicated that environmental concern significantly influences recycling behavior.
Opposite your point of View
There may also be other factors affecting recycling behavior, such as policies encouraging recycling practices.
Problem
How and in what way does a sense of environmental concern influence recycling behavior?
Solution 1
I would also suggest using the regression model to further examine how different income levels, educational attainments, age, and gender affect recycling behaviors.
Solution 2
Because the sample size of this research may have been too small (Jekria et al. (2016) only investigated 143 householders)
Feeding livestock food scrap
Jennings, R. (2016, March). In Taiwan, leftover food scraps help farmers sustain porky appetites. The Guardian.
Support your point of view
Jennings (2016) pointed out that using leftover food scraps to feed livestock enables people to reduce food waste more environmentally.
Opposite your point of View
People are often afraid of eating pigs which have been fed food scraps.
Problem
How can the government mitigate society’s concern about eating such pigs
Solution 1
The government should announce that food scraps fed to farm animals will not contaminate the livestock.
Solution 2
Proper research should be carried out in order to determine the volume of food waste which can be processed as feed for livestock.
The Current Status for Kitchen Waste
The Current Status for Kitchen Waste Recycling and Reuse. (August, 2017). Environmental Protection Administration (the EPA), R.O.C.(Taiwan).
Opposite your point of View
If we cannot burn or bury trash, it may be difficult to dispose of large amounts of waste. Therefore, incineration and the use of landfills may seem inevitable.
Solution 1
The government should encourage more recycling in local communities to help reduce the volume of waste produced.
Support your point of view
The EPA (2017) reported that although food waste can be processed through landfills and incinerators, suitable land in Taiwan where food waste can be buried is relatively limited, and because food waste is generally in a wet state, it can be difficult to burn.
Solution 2
Incineration and landfilling must be performed properly in order to reduce possible negative impacts on the environment.
Problem
Food waste has a high density of moisture and land for burying waste is scarce.
Food waste in Taiwan. (November, 2012). Go.Asia.
Opposite your point of View
Although the amount of food produced in Taiwan waste is substantial, the total amount has been significantly reduced in recent years.
Solution 1
The government can encourage its people to voluntarily reduce their food waste by providing incentives, such as tax credit or money reimbursements.
Support your point of view
Go.Asia. (2012) expressed that Taiwan’s annually wasted food scraps have resulted in a substantially negative impact on society and in the environment.
Solution 2
Informing society of the consequences of wasting food may help local communities have a greater sense of responsibility to reduce the amount of unnecessary waste they create.
Problem
Food waste is still a challenging long-term issue for the government and society to address.