DPP councilors condemn trashing of NT$80m lantern
Democratic Progressive Party Taipei City councilors yesterday condemned the Taipei City Department of Civil Affairs for trashing the main lantern of this year’s Taipei Lantern Festival following the end of the event, and urged the department to draw up recycling plans for display lanterns.
The main lantern of this year’s Taipei Lantern Festival in January, a 16m ox wearing a taekwondo outfit named Mou Mou (哞哞), cost the city government more than NT$80 million (US$2.3 million) to build ... and was only on display for about 10 days
... [Councilors} Lee and Chien urged the department to draw up plans to either recycle or reuse the million-dollar main lanterns after each festival, and to make the lanterns with recycled materials. Department Commissioner Huang Lu Ching-ru (黃呂錦茹) acknowledged the difficulty in finding enterprises to buy this year’s main lantern, and promised to implement new measures to prevent lanterns from being abandoned as trash.
But she and Hau have no intention, presumably, of dealing with the millions of dollars of joss money burned twice a month in the "help-me-make-money" ritual, as well as the frequent "i-was-so-neglectful-of-you-in-your-lifetime-but-i'll-impress-the-neighbours-with-the-amount-of-carcinogenic-smoke-i-can-create" religious events.
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