Old toys bring joy to seniors

Toys in Taiwan have an average life of six months, and 80 percent of toys that are thrown out end up in landfills or incinerators or as untreated waste, according to the Taiwan Toy Library Association. Over the past 17 years, the association has collected nearly 400 metric tons of secondhand toys for use in a nationwide toy sharing scheme. Some of them end up in activities for seniors at daycare centers in New Taipei.