Radio Taiwan International
Date: 19 July, 2019
By: Leslie Liao

Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration will begin using aerial drones to assess beach litter as early as next year. Environmental sanitation head Tsai Lin-yi says that the administration has begun trial assessments.

The decision to use drones comes in response to a survey conducted by Greenpeace and the Society of Wilderness that was released earlier this month. A total of 13 beaches in Taiwan have been classified as heavily polluted. The Cabinet has already called on relevant agencies to begin clean-up procedures as soon as September.    [FULL  STORY]