Residents of Nantou's Mingjian Township clashed with police during a protest over plans to build a trash incinerator in the area. The county government says it has no choice, as the rest of the country's incinerators are at full capacity.
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00:00Protesters are demanding the cancellation of a planned trash incinerator in central Taiwan.
00:06The Nantou County government says it needs to build the incinerator in Mingjian Township
00:11because the country's other incinerators are at full capacity.
00:14At the first meeting about the plans on Monday, residents and activists expressed concerns
00:19over what the furnace could mean for local farmland and water quality.
00:24Despite some shoving with police, the protests ended peacefully,
00:27but officials and locals remain divided over the plans.