For decades, vehicles have become a necessary tool in terms of transportation in Taiwan. With Taiwan’s economy growing steadily, more and more people here have replaced their obsolescent vehicles with new ones. However, more vehicles mean more severe environmental problems, such as the pollutants exhausted by obsolescent vehicles. The improper disposal of obsolete vehicles tends to make negative impacts on our beautiful environment. Disassembling obsolete vehicles improperly is very likely to produce a lot of wastes (i.e., wasted fuel, tires, batteries, and cool agents, etc.) All these useless wastes, without proper disposal, might cause a lot of damage to our environment. As a result, to dispose of the obsolete vehicles in Taiwan properly, the EPA has developed an incentive prcedure to encourage people to take their obsolescent vehicles to a certified recycling plant. In 1999, the EPA began to carry out the policy stipulating that people be entitled to receive an incentive bonus if they have their obsolescent vehicles disposed in a certified recycling plant. Starting from 2003, there have been more than 2500 thousand obsolete vehicles recycled and disposed of properly at the certified plants. In 2007, EPA made its sixth amendment to the procedure in terms of the incentive bonus and recycling requirements: vehicles should be old enough to be eligible for the bonus (cars should be 10 years old or above and motorcycles should be 7 years old or above.), and the application document should include the license plate discard or invalidation issued by the MVD. The governmental owners shall not be awarded any bonus. The policy was developed to encourage the car owners here in Taiwan to dispose of their obsolescent vehicles along a legal procedure. This procedure aims to review the application for incentive bonus to meet the requirements set by the EPA, and it also serves as a facilitator of better communication between the applicants and the recycling plants. As of Dec.31 this year, 250,224 applications have been accomplished, including 250/mon communication phone calls to recycling plants and applicants 24,183/mon respectively. In sum, this project has been executed with high accuracy and efficiency in the hope of meeting the public’s expectation

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