The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) said in a statement yesterday that it has received more than 130 applications for its e-motorcycle subsidy scheme and it expected the first batch of old motorbikes to arrive at its recycling centre from Tuesday.
The bureau urged residents who are interested in applying for the subsidy to hand in their applications before next Wednesday. The statement underlined that the bureau aims to waive the annual road tax (imposto de circulação) for those drivers who hand over their old motorbikes by the end of this month.
According to the statement, those who participate in the subsidy scheme for the replacement of old motorcycles with new electric ones can save up to 8,800 patacas, consisting of a subsidy of 3,500 patacas and exemption from vehicle registration fees of up to 5,300 patacas.
The bureau said that the subsidy scheme aims to encourage owners to replace their old motorcycles that produce a higher level of emissions with new electric ones, so as to promote the use of e-motorcycles, with the ultimate goal of further improving the city’s air quality and meeting the central government’s “double carbon” goal – the nation’s goal of peaking its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060.
Those who are interested in participating in the scheme can sign up at https://www.fpace.gov.mo/fpace_tc/introduction_p4.aspx or call 2876 2626.
Red envelope recycling programme
Meanwhile, the bureau told The Macau Post Daily in a statement on Wednesday that its red envelope (lai see) recycling programme ended on February 23. The statement said that the bureau had set up 900 recycling spots,and in total the bureau collected 2.3 million red envelopes. The statement noted it was estimated to have saved 92 trees, while 300,000 of the collected red envelopes can be reused.
The statement said that the bureau will collaborate with social welfare groups and distribute the reusable red envelopes to the public. The statement pointed out that some of the collected red envelopes will be used at workshops, and the remainder will be recycled. The statement noted that in the past five years, the bureau has collected 9.08 million red envelopes in total, 2.83 million of which were reusable, or 31 percent of the total.
This undated handout photo provided by the Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) on Wednesday shows bags of used red envelopes (lai see) collected by the bureau.
