Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has set the strategy behind Article 14-1 in the Water Pollution Control Act to fully understand the characteristics of wastewater discharged from specific industries and prevent as well as improve the risk management of non-regulated items in the Effluent Standards. The project analyzed four disclosure pollutants (2-Methoxy-1-propanol, Diethylene glycol dimethyl ether, N-methylformamide and Dimethylacetamide) in industrial wastewater and proposed suggestion for the Effluent Standards. Moreover, this project renewed the industrial wastewater management guideline for thirteen industries (such as petrochemical industry) according to the amendment of regulations related to water pollution control. On the other hand, we conducted six educational training course on amendment regulations and draft the manual. This project has revised the reinforcing strategies in the Effluent Standards and the Water Pollution Control Act Industrial Classification and Definition based on industrial manufacturing and wastewater characteristics. We have analyzed the ammonia nitrogen, organic index (BOD, COD and TOC), PFOS, PFOA and PPCPs for specific industries and conducted site survey and wastewater analysis for the non-regulated industries. Further, we traced the effluent quality of the industries that have revised Effluent Standards and the implementation of their Effluent Pollutant Elimination Management Plans.

Effluent standard、Disclosure Pollutants、Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products