By 2001, not only were more than 10,000 Ilan households (a tenth of the total) using Liu's approach for handling kitchen waste, but schools and environmental groups in other cities and counties were seeking to learn from the Ilan experience, taking these methods back to their communities for implementation-and creating a trend.
到民國九十年，宜蘭已有上萬戶家庭（佔總戶數一成）用劉淑惠的方式處理廚餘，其他縣市的學校、環保團體更紛紛前往取經，帶回自己社區推廣，蔚為風潮。