Taiwan used to be flooded with trash – but the country is now one of the top plastics recyclers in the world. How did they do it?

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Credits:

Reporter: Beina Xu

Camera: Kaley Emerson, Shaundie Hsu, Norman Pan

Video Editor: Frederik Willmann

Supervising Editor: Adam Baheej Adada

Fact Check: Kirsten Funck

Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read more:

Supporting a circular economy: Insights from Taiwan's plastic waste sector and lessons for developing countries

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235255092031349X

Taiwan’s Transition – from Garbage Island to Recycling Leader

https://rapidtransition.org/stories/taiwans-transition-from-garbage-island-to-recycling-leader/

Analysis of plastic waste reduction and recycling in Taiwan

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0734242X21996821

Management strategy of plastic wastes in Taiwan

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42834-022-00123-0

Time series analysis of the effects of refuse collection on recycling: Taiwan’s “Keep Trash Off the Ground” measure

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956053X07000694

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:43 Trash in Taipei

02:09 On the recycling fleet

03:12 What about AI arms?

07:24 Pellet magic

08:32 The bigger picture

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