Taiwan Cafe recommends Cafe on Chimney

Take the high-speed elevator to the 120-meter-high revolving restaurant, sit down while drinking coffee and dessert, overlooking Yangming Mountain and Guanyin Mountain, overlooking the Tanshui River, Keelung River and Guandu Waterbird Reserve.

This is not in the Taipei 101 Building, but at the Beitou Municipal solid waste Incineration Plant in Taipei City, Chau Mei Street, Beitou District. In the factory area stands the common factory chimney, but in particular, this chimney is not only painted with rainbow colors, but also creatively built a revolving restaurant and viewing platform.

Reporters are deeply impressed by a series of public feedback policies supporting the waste incineration plant project in Taiwan. For example, NT $200 is earmarked for every ton of waste burned, 30% of which is for the residents of the factory area to establish fund sharing; when the factory is built, entertainment and health care feedback facilities are clearly built for free use by the people in the factory area. Residents of the three municipal solid waste incineration plants in Taipei can enjoy the recreational and health facilities of the incineration plant for free.

After the incineration plant was built, the residents were still worried. Some residents found that the chimney did not seem to smoke, so they invited several residents to the enterprise to watch the night for two days in a row. Only then did the residents find that once the incinerator burnt up for 24 hours, they could not see that the smoke had been treated.

According to reports, the incineration plant, which has been in service for 17 years, costs a total of about NT $6.5 billion. Hu Kunzhi, the secretary of the factory, told the reporter that the cost can be returned in 12 years according to the design capacity. However, the awareness of environmental protection in Taiwan has increased rapidly, and the garbage recovery rate has increased significantly since the implementation of the resource recovery policy in 1996. Taipei's daily domestic waste dropped from 3000 tons to 942 tons.

According to reports, Taiwan's 22 waste incineration plants, Taipei, Kaohsiung and other five family members of the public run by the public, the staff is a steady salary of public officials. The annual operating expenses of the plant are included in the budget of about NT $330 million, with annual electricity generation for at least 10,000 households, and electricity income of about NT $260 million, plus more than NT $100 million from the disposal of general industrial waste. "there is another account that has not been calculated, and that is the government's income from selling garbage bags." Secretary Hu smiled and said. The incineration rate of waste in Taiwan has exceeded 97%, and the combustible waste in Taipei has reached 100%.

Drinking coffee and watching the scenery on the 120-meter-high chimney, the fresh water and Keelung River meet quietly under the clouds. Chen Longji, the father of Taiwan's environmental protection (Taiwan's first deputy director of the Environmental Protection Agency), lamented: "in the past, both sides of the Tanshui River were full of rubbish, and no one wanted to buy a house here, but now the house prices on both sides of Tamsui are the highest."