In order to continuously formulate the circular economy policy combined with sustainable materials management, we implemented this year’s " The project of the strategy promotion and the information system maintenance and operation of resource management for sustainability”based on the relevant implementation results in the past. This project involves the review of domestic and foreign circular economy policies and using the Resource Circulation Analysis System in Taiwan for the relevant analysis requirements. The outcomes of this project are listed as below: 1. Collect and compile domestic and international information of circular economy, and the result shows that the circular economy policies implemented in countries are mainly to enhance the participation of producers and consumers from economic activity side, integrate resource management and waste management, focus on transformation of business models and product design, increase resource recycling and economic benefits of secondary materials, strengthen source reduction (such as extendted producers’ responsibility, green agreement, etc.), through economic incentives or policy advocacy to change the behavior of producers and consumers to effect reuse of remaining materials. In terms of implementation measures, it can be observed that the five points mentioned by the European Union: "biomass, food waste, construction, plastics and critical materials" have generally affected European countries, as well as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Based on the domestic and foreign data and the progress of the previous plan, we drafted the "recycling promotion plan for resources recovery from year 2021 to 2024, and keep taking production, consumption, waste management, and secondary materials markets as the structure, and involve new foreign ideas on production and consumption, such as the green agreement, new waste issues, new waste application technology and repair index. In addition, we recommends that overall indicators, observation indicators and action indicators be used as indicators for the next phase of action plan. 2. Analyze critical material flows of antimony and tin and related industrial circulation, and evaluate the environmental impact of industrial material flows. The use of antimony is mainly from antimony trioxide and lead antimony alloys, should concern the part of production and consumption from antimony trioxide, the risk of importing from one country can be dispersed through the halogen free policy. Lead-antimony alloys are mainly used in lead-acid batteries. The domestic waste lead-acid battery recycle system is mature and stable, so the recycling of lead-antimony alloys is smooth, and policy makers only need to focus on competitive relationship of lithium batteries and lead-acid batteries. For the result of tin, we focus on inorganic tin solder pastes and organic tin coatings. The highest recovery of solder pastes is from the manufacturing end, recycling of tin ingots is one of supply chains that fit the brand requirements in Taiwan. Important products, and tin recycling products has not reached economic benefits and scale, while organic tin coatings have been banned for many years, only needs to concern about old ship coatings or disassemble issues. 3. Update the national resource-based industry correlation table and The Resource Recycling Indicators and Analysis System of industrial chain and material flow analysis functions. In addition to follow the latest version in EU to update the domestic calculation method, industrial waste production from different industrial developments situation and the analysis tool that removal volume analysis tools provided by domestic waste treatment organizations are added. 4. Coordinate with relevant administrative process to improve the execution quality and efficiency of the projects, including the arrangement of 6 related consulting meetings.
