NANTOU COUNTY, Taiwan: A Japanese couple dressed in a tux and gown embrace in an unconventional wedding photo, one the environmentally aware bride hopes will deter her guests from producing needless garbage.
Iris Hsueh, a Greenpeace candidate, and her fiancé are getting married in January and have asked visitors to provide their own containers so they can take leftovers home.
The Taipei-based couple traveled three hours west for a photo shot in the Puli township of Nantou county, where the amount of trash brought to the nearby dump has progressively increased over the years, after deciding that showing rather than telling was an effective communication strategy.
” I do show them the picture and ask,” Would you reconsider?” if any friends are unwilling to bring along a container. The 33-year-old added to AFP that the pictures ultimately attracted interest from the local press.
” I didn’t think it would cause such a stir ,” she said.
With over 50 % of family garbage processed through the program, self-ruled Taiwan, an area with 23 million residents, has had a recycling program since 1987, making it one of the highest rates in the world.
However, Chen Chun-hung, the sanitary crew chief for the Puli township, claimed that the amount of garbage that has skyrocketed; back in the 1980s, it was about 20 tonnes per day, but now it is about 50.
He told AFP that while our people is really declining, garbage is getting worse every year.
He claimed that using the Puli plop site as a spare storage facility was originally intended to be” momentary” and that it had been in use for three years.
It was( five to six stories ) higher and the smell was even worse two years ago. It became intolerable to work around ,” Chen said, adding that he believed the child’s behavior to be” meaningful.”
” Compared to us older people, the young are pretty artistic.”
Hsueh claimed that after their pictures went viral, her friends and family had vowed to stop wasting so much time in their everyday life.
She is, however, simply pleased with the discussion her photos have sparked.
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For the major time, too? Hsueh grinned impishly and said,” I hope to see everyone with a box on my bridal time.”