The Economical Comparison of WEEE Recycling between Taiwan and Mainland of China
Starting from January 2011, the potentially largest home appliance market in the world, mainland, China, adopted the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for its increasingly serious waste problem. For the unique social and economic conditions in mainland, China the EPR system should be different from those implemented in developed countries. Therefore, from the similar cultural perspective, our goal in this paper is to propose a model of EPR that can suit the complicated situation in mainland, China. In Taiwan, Taiwans Environmental Protection Administration (Taiwan EPA) has been in charge of the recycling duty for 14 categories of local Due-Recycled waste in Taiwan Since 1998, including home appliances and information technology (IT) products. The local recycling scheme, also an EPR system is working by collecting the collection-disposal-treatment fees, or recycling fees, from producers to subsidize the registered recyclers for their recycling efforts. In the past eleven years, the performance of collection and treatment has been concerned by many parties including Taiwan EPA itself. We also examined the environmental performance of the recycling fee system for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). Based on intensive interviews and discussion with major producers in Taiwan in 2008, this paper thus proposes an ideal model for Taiwans WEEE recycling system, a Private Recycling Organization (PRO) including the statute of the system, the material flows, the monetary flows, the auditing and reporting mechanism, and, the environmental performance standards. Hopefully this model can also be applicable to mainland, China.
due-recycled waste recycling fund collection-disposal-treatment fee
Lihchyi WEN Chun-hsu LIN
Energy and Environmental Research Center, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research 75 Changhsing Street, Taiwan 106, China
国际会议
The Sixth International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第六届固体废物管理与技术国际会议 ICWMT 6)
苏州
英文
322-325
2011-08-30（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）