Taiwan’s recycling policies mainly focus on the two priorities – to reduce the amount of waste and to recycle them efficiently. Therefore, our government has been promoting green economy for many years. However, because the amount of waste has been decreasing and the idea of reducing carbon emission has been prevailing around the globe, Taiwan is facing the challenges of how to transfer incineration plants and how to adjust our corresponding policies accordingly. Currently, Environmental Protection Administration is designing a blueprint for a biomass energy center, so, after evaluations, the administration will use Nei-Hu Incineration Plant for that purpose, because the plant is qualified to deliver heat and cold to hotels, business plazas and department stores in its neighboring area. Thus, Nei-Hu Incineration Plant’s the functions and capabilities will certainly meet our expectation. This project’s main focus is to collect other countries’ policies regarding recycling technologies and its applications. For instance, we will analyze each case in terms of applications, technical regulations and benefits, so we can establish an exemplar for our future reference. Additionally, we will explore the policies on how to transfer incineration plants into regional energy centers, and will evaluate costs and benefits of these policies in order to create our own recycling programs suitable for Taiwan’s policy design in the future.

Energy-saving、Waste-to-resource、recycle