In order to administer the recycling system, the EPA’s Recycling Management Fund (RMF) has developed a recycling information system in 1999 to increase the administrative efficiency and provide statistics and announcement to the public. Since the Waste Disposal Act (WDA) has been amended, the purpose of the project is to make all necessary changes to the recycling system and information update. In compliance with the amendment, new forms and processes for the reimbursement qualification application have been re-designed and announced by June 2002. Since then, 26 resource recovery/treatment plants’ applications have been reviewed with 19 field inspections made. Besides, the project team also helped with the review data input (of 2 cases) and reimbursement data review (of 109 cases). The RMF has made tremendous revision to the information system with 447 programs changed. The system has been modified for easier operation and better security.

recycling system,Waste Disposal Act,resource recovery/treatment organization