Residential garbage fees in Taiwan used to be included in water utility bills, despite the lack of a necessary relation between household water consumption and garbage generation. Given the difficulty of finding sites for new landfills, plus Taipei's ever-expanding output of garbage, city authorities last year began working on a new system under which garbage collection would be paid for through the purchase of special-issue trash bags.
台灣民眾的垃圾處理費一向是隨水費附徵，但使用水費與製造垃圾量不必然成正比，因此也屢遭抗議，加上垃圾場一地難求，垃圾量日增，台北市在去年開始計畫推動「垃圾費隨袋徵收」，以達到垃圾減量、回收的目的。