Focus Taiwan
Date: 2020/01/01
By: Chang Hsiung-feng and Matthew Mazzetta

Taipei, Jan. 1 (CNA) Two restaurants in New Taipei were fined Wednesday for using disposable tableware, on the first day of the new regulations against that practice, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said.

The new rules, which pertain to dine-in service at restaurants in shopping malls, were announced last August and took effect at the start of the new year.

In a statement, the EPA said it carried out an inspection Wednesday of more than 100 businesses nationwide and issued fines against two restaurants in New Taipei that were found to be in violation of the new regulations, which prohibit the use of disposable tableware for diners at shopping mall food courts.

One of the restaurants was in Mitsui Outlet Park in the city's Linkou District, and other in St. Ignatius Plaza in Luzhou District, the EPA said, but it did not disclose how much they had been fined.
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