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Taiwan's garbage trucks offer classical music and a catch-up
- On July 29 in Taipei, musical garbage trucks played classical melodies to alert residents to bring pre-sorted rubbish for collection.
- This system developed as Taiwan faced an economic boom causing trash surges, overflowing landfills, and pollution protests, leading to new waste policies.
- Residents must sort trash themselves and buy approved blue plastic bags, while helpers like 76-year-old Yang Xiu-ying earn NT$11,200 monthly to assist with disposal.
- Taipei's recycling rate increased dramatically from 2% in 2000 to nearly 67%, while the volume of incinerated waste decreased by two-thirds; additionally, collection trucks run most days of the week and are usually punctual.
- The musical truck system endures as a social convenience, improving life quality despite initial inconvenience and some fixed schedule complaints.
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AlKhaleej TodayTaiwan’s garbage trucks offer classical music and a catch-up
TAIPEI, July 29 — Taiwanese residents holding plastic bags of rubbish stand on a footpath as a yellow garbage truck playing classical music over a loudspeaker pulls up.For decades, the tinkling of Beethoven’s Fur Elise or Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska’s Maiden’s Prayer has alerted Taiwanese households to take out their garbage.Like clockwork, residents emerge from their apartment buildings carrying bags of pre-sorted rubbish as the musical garba…
Taipei, 28 Jul. (askanews) - In Taiwan the collection of garbage is music-based... classic. Yellow trucks warning of their arrival spreading "for Elisa" of Beethoven or "The Prayer of a Virgin" of Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska, while residents wait on the sidewalks with bags in their hand. "When we hear this music, we know it is time to take out the garbage. It is very comfortable," explains a woman outside the condominium where she lives in Taip…
Taipei - It is a real ritual in Taiwan: five days a week, the garbage trucks play classic melodies to signal their arrival to the inhabitants, charged with throwing their waste themselves under a policy of accountability. Alerted by the notes of "La Lettre à Elise" by Ludwig van Beethoven or of "La Praie d'une vierge" by Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska, played in the loudspeakers of the vehicles, the inhabitants leave their building, bag in hand, a…
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