Why can’t I find any public Rubbish bins in Taipei?
Mad so many food and drink outlets that provide each buyer with a lot of disposable crap.
I see lots carrying rucksacks/backpacks maybe for carrying your rubbish home?
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They charge for garbage collection here (by only accepting taxed bags you have to buy). They gradually realized people were circumventing the system by disposing of their household trash in public bins, and we normal people are paying the price.
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At first glance it seems so. On closer inspection there are many around. Explore 
hint: Taiwan has the most convenience stores by density in the world … i think?
General public abuse the public garbage cans and also it takes a fair amount of resources to maintain. This is probably why we don’t see them all over the place
Note you can find rubbish bins in MRT stations, and usually in the washrooms of department stores.
They’re often available in convenience stores as well, but they seem have become a little less visible in recent years.
Sometimes at bus stations or in parks. Of course at the exits of night markets.
But yes, way too few.
Supposedly you can drop trash at the locations found in this thread.
Don’t take this the wrong way…but I’d rather drink 高粱 at a Taiwanese wedding than bother reading up on where I can dump trash
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The fixed collection point is even worse. I think it’s basically a one hour window, very early in the morning where you can drop off trash. It’s also not conveniently located either.
You’re better off making their regularly scheduled collection time.
those assholes! using public bins to dispose of rubbish! deplorable…
yea thats a real tough one. i mean the maintenance of public rubbish bins isn’t something you find in every other country or anything…
other than japan. but taiwan is not japan. japanese clean up after themselves, taiwanese throw shit all over the place.
In my old neighborhood they re-did the sidewalks and installed rubbish bins every block or so.
Inside of a few days, not only were the bins full but garbage was tossed on the ground nearby.
A few weeks later, the bins were pulled, leaving holes in the sidewalk (a sort of tile) where they previously were.
New neighborhood is far more upscale and has a few bins located outside the MRT station. Same situation though they appear to be picked up throughout the day because you really only see the overflow in the early AM.
yea i see it too. but doesn’t that show that the trash situation isn’t working? basically everywhere i have been other than japan has public bins and they are not overflowing like here.
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Only if it’s household trash, which is supposed to be disposed of in the taxed bags. It’s illegal to dispose of household trash in public bins, and it’s the selfishness of such people which has led to bins being removed.
thats also result of self delivery system. why would those people put their household rubbish in those bins if they already had an easier way to do it? the system is cack.
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In some cases that’s true, but it wasn’t a major issue before they introduced the tax, and there were plenty of bins. It’s people trying to save a few bucks that caused the problem.
Garbage collection is really uneven throughout Taipei. In my former neighborhood, the trucks would come by at ~15:30 and 17:00, making it impossible for anybody who worked to take out the trash. Saturday was a HUGE collection day and every public bin was overflowing with household trash.
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It seems like the basket of the Ubike is the new garbage can, it really winds me up.
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There was no change. Before they had the tax your rubbish collection cost was included as a part of your water bill. So your water bill was a few hundred NT more per month. They took that off so now your water bill is a few hundred NT less, and instead they turned to making you buy the bag to pay for garbage collection instead.
Except that there was a change 
When they just tacked it on the water bill, people didn’t have the incentive to dispose of their trash on the sly that they do now.
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Supposedly before it was a flat rate deal, but now they wanted to promote recycling so they made you buy the bags.
But honestly the bag isn’t that expensive, in fact in NTC they reduced the price of the bags a little bit and both Taipei city and NTC bags can be used in NTC (but not the other way around).
Outside my house there’s a curb with big signs saying no dumping, and I constantly see bags of trash there, and scooters dropping off bags of trash there. Someone picks it up eventually. Sometimes I see big things like mattress dumped on the side of the road next to signs saying no dumping.
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