Joining hands to clean rivers and reduce trash at the source

Raft Creek, aka Fazi Creek, is the mother river of Taichung, whose basin has a rich ecological landscape. In the past, it was the domain of the Plains indigenous peoples, who named it Raft Creek due to their widespread use of bamboo rafts.

However, on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait, there is a considerable amount of accumulated trash at the mouth of each river. With garbage flowing from the river to the sea, we need to start intercepting and removing garbage from the streams where we live, especially from Raft Creek, which is a vast river basin. To maintain clean, pollution-free rivers in our modern cities, we must start reducing garbage at the source.

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攜手淨溪一起來 源頭減量我做起

筏子溪流經臺中市區，是一條生態豐富的河川，以往是平埔族的領域，因為當時使用竹筏渡河，故而稱它為「筏子溪」，是大臺中的母親之河。

然而在我們臺灣海峽的西海岸，在每一個河口，都累積的非常大量的海底垃圾。這些垃圾基本上都是由河川流到海裡去的，於是我們應該在居住的地方，在我們的城市的溪流，開始去把垃圾攔截移除。特別是筏子溪流域廣闊，要想在現代都會中，維持乾淨無污染的水域，就該從源頭減量垃圾做起。