In March 2022, Taiwan published “Taiwan’s Pathway to Net-Zero Emissions in 2050 with Strategies” in which the pathway of “Energy Transition” will drive mass construction of the solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and wind farms. On the heels of the solar power and wind power generation are the consequent wastes which require us to think out how to effectively recycle and reuse such wastes for the cut-down of waste output and to evaluate the feasible waste disposal solutions and management strategies, so as to reduce the impact and influence such wastes will cause to the environment. Therefore, Resource Circulation Administration, Ministry of Environment specially urges the “Promotion Project to Audit the Waste Solar Photovoltaic Panels Disposal and to Recycle Emerging Wastes” in order to formulate the regulations governing the waste solar PV panels recycling, clearance and disposal, and to study the waste wind turbines blades recycling and disposal methods and the relevant techniques in Taiwan. All of these are meant to achieve benefits in both reducing waste and reusing resources. In response to the possibility of large-scale output of solar PV modules in the future, we had better now plan the key points and schedule for establishing diversified resource factories based on the current available management capacity in Taiwan. At the same time, it is necessary to overhaul the system for the recycling, clearance, and disposal of waste solar PV modules, to implement the concept of extended responsibilities for producers, and to assess the incorporation of items to be recycled into the announcement. To improve the system of recycling, clearance, and disposal for waste solar PV panels, we may make use of the PVIS to develop and enhance basic data maintenance capabilities, and to provide service of statistics and analysis from the databank. This will facilitate the upgrade of operation performance. In addition, to cope with the future problems of decommissioned wind turbines blades and their disposal as waste, we will search and collate the relevant recycling and disposal management system in the foreign countries, and grasp the status quo in Taiwan. It will, as a result, provide reference for the formulation of management system for the waste wind turbines blades recycling in the future.

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