According to working subjects’ requirement, following achievements have accomplished in the project: 1. In terms of waste home appliance and information technology (IT) equipment work, “site and database investigation” method was applying in unit weight investigation. Since regular recycling articles variation were increasingly, therefore suggesting Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) that weight parameters of waste items needs to change, for example, LCD TV set, washing machine, electrical fridge, heater and air-conditioner, computer, LCD monitor, laptop tablet, hard-disk and keyboard. Moreover, put on the market volume and recycling rate on TV set, electrical fan, printer and keyboard numbers were indicated unusual number, an improvement plan in short-, medium-, and long-term were suggested. Also, raising subsidy fee, decreasing clean treatment fee, and merging TV set and monitor from different subject to once only, deliverables limitation and recycling advocacy activities were advised in the report. Furthermore, estimating new regular recycling items future trends that based on international database put on the market volume and end-of-life volume, predicting the future selling performance of tablets and hard disk. It was based on same principle to collect and compare recycling outcomes from different countries, according to “ the same amount of weight of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)as was collected in the Member State on average in the three preceding years”( EU WEEE directive,2012) can be transfer as” the amount of weight of WEEE as was collected on average in the three preceding years” as recycling rate calculation formulate for Taiwan. Avoiding if only one year selling volume calculation could cause value extremely changed. 2. Regarding green product and emerging products market, home appliance and IT equipment current product development and future development information were collected; we discovered that All-in-One PC (AIO) and Mini PC had highly controversial definitions. Thus, it was based on survey and site visiting investigation to collect the acquirement circumstance of green mark, suggested that necessarily to amended differential fee rate. It is important to establish communication channel by hosting one expert meeting between authorities and retailers for products tends can be keep tracking. 3. In terms of associating regulated recycling waste fee calculation formula and fee reviewing committee work, fee calculation formula was reviewed, we suggested that two factors of fee calculation formula could be changed in the formula to reflect the real consequence of flow investigation in the market. On the other hand, the fee-reviewing committee construction ambiguous needs to be improved. We not only coordinated administrative work for fee reviewing committee meeting, after recycling and subsidy fee database system assessment and highly recommend deleting database system, but also associated fee-reviewing committee to visit recycling facilities. 4. In coordinating Taiwan and America environmental technology agreement aspects, regular and irregular EPA new policies were updated to International E-waste Management Network (IEMN) platform. We were helping three times of international teleconference, and fulfilled with performance measure, kept tracking partnership countries’ policy implementation situation. Moreover, we not only attended IEMN annual meeting in Hanoi in July, but also updated that current E-waste situation from various countries for EPA, analyzing update information from USA and Ghana for further E-waste managed. 5. Regarding recycling propaganda campaigns, designed two styles flyers, one for waste home appliance; another is for IT equipment, overall 10,000 flyers being produced. Moreover 4,000 propaganda materials had purchased for propaganda activities. This year propaganda campaign was divided to two aspects to conduct, one way is associating with schools, communities, retailers and public sectors for hosting 20 recycling propaganda activities, and another way is coordinating with exhibition activities for twice. In conclusion, 4,210 people engaged activities and 610 E-waste items were collected.

Taiwan and the USA environmental technology cooperation, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Industrial investigation, Green product, Unit weights investigation.