The project period was from Jan 18, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011. The tasks included enhancing the collection and recycling efficiencies of waste batteries and waste lamps, reviewing the levy and subsidy rates, testing for the heavy metal contents within the batteries and lamps, and drafting the reward strategy and outreach programs for upgrading the technology and efficiency of collection and recycling. The project analyzed and evaluated domestic method of collection, storage, and disposal of waste lamps by collecting related information. It gave the suggestions of educating citizens the concepts of correct collection and storage for less breakage, enhancing the collection technique for municipal executing personnel, increasing the inspection frequency for recyclers, enhancing the wastes auditing system, and avoiding the mercury emitting to the environment. The project gathered the information relating to collection systems, collection achievements, recycling technologies, and recycling conditions of waste batteries and waste lamps in Europe, America, and domestic for comparing and analyzing. The project drafted the new levy and subsidy rates of cylindrical Mn-Zn/Alkaline, primary Lithium, secondary Lithium, button- Lithium, button-Mercury, NI-MH, and Ni-Cd batteries. The sampling and testing result of 20 new batteries and 100 waste batteries showed that the Hg content of all 120 sets complied with the 5 ppm standard. There was only 1 set of new batteries which exceeded the limit of lead content. About 70% of 20 new lamps’ Hg content complied with the EU standards. For the breaking experiments of 30 sets of waste lamps, the highest value of Hg concentration after each set broke did not exceed the working environment safety limit of 0.05mg/m3. Most of the samples’ Hg concentration will close or equal to zero after 1,000 seconds. There were 89 suspected unregistered products contained batteries had been found in field inspecting, and there were 13 suspected unregistered producers/importers related to the secondary batteries of electric vehicles and UPS which inspected through web information. The project drafted the “The Executive Principal of the Subsidy for the Inventing and Researching of Regulated Recyclable Wastes Collection and Recycling”, Recycling Fund Management Board, Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. Its purpose was to encourage the academic and research institutes to develop or invent the better wastes collection and recycling systems, technologies, and recycled materials reusing for arising the toxics collection rate, reducing the pollution emitting, and increasing the recycling rate and the value of recycled materials.

collection and storage, the differential subsidy rate for waste lamps, testing heavy metal contents, levy for technical improvements