The Taiwanese city government of Taipei is working on a plan to prevent many people tending to dump everything, including garbage, into their homes.
Responding to photos recording “mountain of garbage” spilling over the balcony area of an apartment in an apartment building in Taipei City, the city’s Environmental Protection Agency said there was no legal basis. to handle apartment owners flooded with garbage.
Mountains of garbage spilled out onto the balcony of an apartment building in Taiwan. (Photo: Facebook)
Previously, according to CNA, on Facebook, a netizen shared many photos of garbage spilling out onto a balcony from inside an apartment. This image quickly attracted the attention of many people. Many people left sympathetic comments with the inconvenient life that neighbors living next to the garbage apartment are having to go through every day, and the concern about adverse impacts on the environment and health. One person realized that this apartment building was located right near the Binjiang market in the Zhongshan district of Taipei City.
Huang Kuan-chu, an official with the Taipei City Environmental Protection Agency, said the apartment containing the garbage was privately owned. Therefore, it is difficult for the authorities to apply the Waste Disposal Act to deal with the garbage that apartment owners bring home, unless this garbage falls out of a window or balcony and onto the street.
Mr. Huang added that even if the garbage in the apartment spilled out into the public area of the apartment building, the application of the Garbage Disposal Act would be difficult to apply. According to Mr. Huang, the only thing that the Taipei City Environmental Protection Agency can do is send staff to regularly patrol around the area to monitor and clean up, if garbage falls on the road causing damage. public toilets.
Meanwhile, the Taipei City Social Welfare Administration has received a report on the incident and conducted to determine the status of people living in the garbage-filled apartment to come up with a solution.
Previously, in July 2021, the news that an elderly couple in South Korea had dragged everything home for 10 years, fearing that after they died, their son would not know where to live made many shocked person. Their actions turned the 2-storey house into a giant mountain of garbage.
 A 2-storey apartment full of garbage in South Korea. (Photo: Oddity Central) |
Mr. Choi (75 years old) lives with his wife and son in his 40s in Gwangju province. When reporters visited the house, the place was filled with garbage. Even the entrance to the house is blocked by garbage, so to get in, there is only one way to climb over the mountain of foul-smelling garbage to get through the door of the first floor. Even the gap in the door can only fit a person with a small body. sneak through.
All 3 live on the 2nd floor in a small room with just enough space to sit and the side is full of trash. His son, who is 40 years old and weighs nearly 100 kg, has not walked out the door in more than a year. Worth mentioning, the ceiling was so dilapidated that it could collapse at any time.
Knowing the plight of 3 people, a TV program in Korea volunteered to clean and collect all the garbage in their house. With the help of nearly 230 volunteers and an excavator, all 150 tons of garbage piled up from the house to the yard were cleaned up and returned to the living space for 3 family members.
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