Pile of mattresses makes 1km roadside wall in Taichung

Pile of mattresses makes 1km roadside wall in Taichung

2026-05-21

A new kind of great wall has arisen in Taichung, made up of 3,000 discarded mattresses. Piled alongside the road outside a cleaning facility in Tanzi District, this pile of mattresses stretches for nearly 1 km. Residents worry it could attract mosquitoes or rats, but the local Environmental Protection Bureau said they disinfect them every day. The mattresses are expected to be removed within three months.

From an aerial perspective, there appears to be a wall of white along the side of the road, nearly surrounding the entire block. But what is it?

It’s made up entirely of mattresses, from small single ones to big king size ones. There are about 3,000 mattresses piled up along the side of the road, stretching for nearly a full kilometer.

This road leads to the cleaning facility in Taichung’s Tanzi District, and is not open to the public. The local Environmental Protection Bureau said that mattress disposal is normally outsourced, but no company has taken the contract this year. Now about 20,000 mattresses are stockpiled across the city, with over 3,000 temporarily stored at the Tanzi cleaning team facility for the past nine months.

Member of public
OK with mattresses
I’m used to it. It’s usually pretty smelly by the cleaning facility anyway. As long as they disinfect it and keep rats away, then it’s OK.

Member of public
Noticed mosquitoes
There will definitely be mosquitoes there. At places like that it’s unavoidable.

Chao Cheng-yu
Taichung Environmental Protection Bureau director
In terms of management, this is a single-entry, single-exit site, and it’s basically an internal storage area. As for rodent issues, we’ve stepped up disinfection in the areas where the mattresses are piled up.

The cleaning team is doing their best to disassemble and discard the mattresses, but progress is slow. Once a new contractor is hired, the bureau says the mattresses can be cleared within about three months.

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台中驚見3千廢床墊堆1公里長居民:如萬里長城

2026-05-21

台中有"新萬里長城"嗎?潭子區清潔隊的出入道路，驚見堆置三千張的廢床墊，堆在土地外圍幾乎長達一公里，繞一圈，簡直就像"床墊版的迷你萬里長城"！附近民眾擔心，可能會引來蚊蟲老鼠，有衛生疑慮!環保局解釋，每天都有定期消毒，預計重新招標後，三個月內就會清除完畢。

從空中俯瞰下去，在這一大塊的綠色梯型地，出現了白色長條物，看得出來，它們被刻意沿著土地邊線擺放，這是什麼特殊造景嗎?

降到平面視角，確認了，它們是單人床、雙人床、king size，大約3千張廢棄床墊，鋪成"床墊路"，長達將近一公里!

床墊堆置區，是台中潭子清潔隊的出入道路，不開放外界通行。環保局解釋，全台中市廢棄床墊原本委外處理，但是，今年疑似因為標案利潤太低，還沒有順利標出去，全市大約堆置2萬張。其中，潭子區有3千多張，九個月來暫放在隊部。

[[民眾]]
“習慣了，因為常常清潔隊那裏很臭，習慣了，只要他們消毒，不要有老鼠就好”

[[民眾]]
“因為蚊蟲一定都有，因為這些地方，一定會有這些問題”

[[台中市環保局科長趙正玉]]
“我們在管理上面，這邊也是屬於單進單出的狀態，基本上都是屬於內部堆置的區域，鼠患的部分，針對這些堆置的床墊區域，我們都有加強來消毒”

清潔隊自己努力把床墊"碎屍萬段"，不過，進度不快。環保局預期重新招標成功後，廠商大約三個月內，就可以清除完畢，盡快推倒台中這個另類的廢棄床墊長城。

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