In order to respond to international management trends and reduce plastic waste and contaminant, the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan (EPA) continues to launch “The Promotion of Plastic Resource Circular Economy Model Project”(hereinafter simply called the Project) for circular economy advancing and industrial transformation. During the execution of the Project, we referred the international plastic management promoting measures for reviewing and planning circular promotion strategies on plastic resources, formulated four key strategies based on aspects of green design, source reduction, promotion of recycling and circulation. The targets are reducing 4 million CO2 emissions, reducing the use of disposable plastic packaging by 50%, recycling rate of recyclable plastic packaging by 70%, and the proportion of recycled content in plastic packaging achieve at least 35% by 2030. The Project proposed the list of concerned materials by evaluating current status in a systematic way, with promoting methods and phased recycling management for industry to achieve green production. In addition, we developed the quality verification/recycled product inspection mechanism of recycled material and conducted two inspections for trial applicability and completeness. To keep promoting the model of resource circulation, the Project gave guidance to industries of plastics and textile on achieving circular economy. For example, we implemented the project of plastic packaging reducing and recycling for retailers, established the regional recycling system of plastic packaging, and improved the post-consumer polyester textile resource recycling system, gave assistance to various industries in voluntary cooperation and break through the barriers of transformation. We launched two guidance assignments for retailers, facilitated the consensus on the cooperation of evaluating plastic resource recycling in the high-tech industry, and connected textile industry to implement innovative methods of recycling. Moreover, we keep tracking the effectiveness of existing communication platforms, and proposed methods for expanding execution. Based on the implementation results of the Project, it is recommended to assess and revise the regulations, standards and driving force of post-consumer recycled plastics according current industry statement, keep inventory plastic material flow and recycling technologies, keep adjusting the direction of promotion. In addition, it is needed to integrate cross-domain resource to plan applicable practices and establish model of circulation by cooperating with industry attributes and needs, promote industries to implement relevant measures in stages to spread initiatives through voluntary practices. Through implementation and promotion of the Project, it can be gradually complete applicability of management system and measures, to assist EPA to understand current trends, to facilitate the formulation of relative policy and to achieve the goal of circulation of plastic resources.

Plastic, circular economy, textile