The purposes of this project included: (1) The purpose of this project was to analyze the flow circumstance investigation of waste home appliances and waste IT equipment via telephone and on-site investigation of publics, dealers, collection and recyclers, and cleaning team. The waste home appliance into the treatment plant was 80.14%, as compared with 70.46% for waste IT equipment. For those waste appliances beyond the certification system, such as those are forgotten at home or those with unclear delivery flow, we suggested continually enhancing public awareness of recycle, and informed the public correct recycling venues. For those are dismantled privately, we recommended to keep active inspection to eradicate the illegal situation.(2) Overseas information of relative processing technology had been collected and will be provided to recycling industries while proceeding on-the-spot counsel. In the future, overseas visits of the processing technologies can be planned, and adopt the techniques to the domestic subsidized organization. We aimed at the investigation of the actual derivative flow in recycling industry, especially the printed circuit boards because they are hazardous substances and offshore processing. During the counsels, the recyclers encountered poor rate of refrigerant collection and serious industrial safety issues (i.e. explosions) in recent years when environmentally friendly refrigerant are involved. We suggested an oxygen concentration detector, (including an inert gas) can be added in the standard facility installation to handle and shred the waste pentane-containing fridges properly. In addition, according to the sorting results of improved mesh aperture, the ratio of copper and aluminum compound in recovered resources could be rose to 72.3%, about 10% increase in the overall effectiveness. During the counsels, we surveyed the proportion of processing efficiency and resources recycling, and discovered the poor rates of recovered resources sorting of copper and aluminum. We suggested the recyclers should enhance their recycling techniques in order to separate iron, non-ferrous and plastic materials properly to effectively improve the ratio of resource recovery.(3) Develop the process of allowance of weight: we has discussed the scope subsidies and items of missing elements. After discussion with the auditing and certification unit, 7 missing elements could be incorporated into the subsidies. We went to 5 of the larger recycling industries to check the items of waste appliances weighted for bill, the regulation of operations, and dispute resolution. Following the process of allowance of weight, 3 recycling industries were chosen to proceed the simulation to analyze processing time, impurities of missing elements, and fluency of operation to confirm the model of certification. We predict the impact of open-up the allowance of weight on our foundation expense based on last year (2012) auditing certified amounts. Overall expenditure of missing elements of waste home appliance is 0.34% of annual contribution fees; total expenditure of missing elements of waste IT equipment accounts for 0.18% of the annual contribution fees. (4) Review of waste appliances recycling system and to improve management performance: We held 21 sessions of education and training, 20 on-site counseling, and 3 seminars with electronic associations to disseminate waste appliances recycling system. Spot-checking 22 regulated industries and wrote 19 persuasion tickets with EPA and EPB. Moreover, according to the users’ need, we developed 9 functions and statements for take-back web system. Inspecting the result of waste appliances recycling: This year (2013), the waste appliances collected through take-back system were 95,892. The waste collection numbers increased 12,277tems and compared with the same period (from April to December) last year, it shows a contribution to stable waste items growth. We assisted to promote system this year, and suggested advocating for different industries, and project counseling to enhance the effectiveness of waste appliances recycling system.

Flow circumstance investigation;Waste home appliances;Waste IT equipment;Allowance of weight;Tutor of treatment technology;Waste appliance takeback policies