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Reviewing The Management Framework And Clean-up Strategy On The Industrial Wastes

Absrtact	According to the reevaluation on figures of industrial wastes conducted by this project in 2004, the total amount of the wastes in 2004 was estimated to be around 30.07 million tonnes, with large share of 15.00 million tonnes from the processing industry (50%), 6.35 million tonnes from the farming industry (21.1%), and 5.37 million tonnes from the construction and demolition industry (18.2%). And according to the statistic figures of Internet online reporting on various categories, there were 11.54 million tonnes of industrial wastes reported as reused/ recycled (71.6%), 2.11 million tonnes as fully/ joint commissioned disposal (13.1%), 0.87 million tonnes as independent disposal (5.4%), 71 thousand tonnes as oversea disposal (0.04%), and 15.38 million tonnes were in temporary storage (9.4%). Estimating the total industrial waste treatment/disposal capacity of Taiwan, it was around 2.4 million tonnes annually, which did not include the capacity for disposal of agriculture and demolition wastes, and It was deemed to be sufficient for current demand, therefore, there was no need to initiate the emergency responding mechanism. Reviewing the economic instruments of various countries on controlling industrial waste, taxation on landfill was mostly adopted by European countries, and there was no case on adopting compulsory pre-deposition of treatment fee or insurance. Through evaluation of these instruments on their impacts on administrative costs, ruling of duties for central and local government, and commercial and market support, taxation on landfill was clearly a much feasible option to be taken into account when future amending the controlling regulation. The project so far has completed the format of monitoring and reporting inventories for industrial waste producers, establishing the standard protocol for future forecasting and regular reviewing mechanism, and compiling the past 3 years data of waste flow and online reporting statistic, to facilitate the competent agencies on policy planning.
Keyword	Industrial waste,Clean-up,Management

Absrtact

According to the reevaluation on figures of industrial wastes conducted by this project in 2004, the total amount of the wastes in 2004 was estimated to be around 30.07 million tonnes, with large share of 15.00 million tonnes from the processing industry (50%), 6.35 million tonnes from the farming industry (21.1%), and 5.37 million tonnes from the construction and demolition industry (18.2%). And according to the statistic figures of Internet online reporting on various categories, there were 11.54 million tonnes of industrial wastes reported as reused/ recycled (71.6%), 2.11 million tonnes as fully/ joint commissioned disposal (13.1%), 0.87 million tonnes as independent disposal (5.4%), 71 thousand tonnes as oversea disposal (0.04%), and 15.38 million tonnes were in temporary storage (9.4%). Estimating the total industrial waste treatment/disposal capacity of Taiwan, it was around 2.4 million tonnes annually, which did not include the capacity for disposal of agriculture and demolition wastes, and It was deemed to be sufficient for current demand, therefore, there was no need to initiate the emergency responding mechanism. Reviewing the economic instruments of various countries on controlling industrial waste, taxation on landfill was mostly adopted by European countries, and there was no case on adopting compulsory pre-deposition of treatment fee or insurance. Through evaluation of these instruments on their impacts on administrative costs, ruling of duties for central and local government, and commercial and market support, taxation on landfill was clearly a much feasible option to be taken into account when future amending the controlling regulation. The project so far has completed the format of monitoring and reporting inventories for industrial waste producers, establishing the standard protocol for future forecasting and regular reviewing mechanism, and compiling the past 3 years data of waste flow and online reporting statistic, to facilitate the competent agencies on policy planning.

Keyword

Industrial waste,Clean-up,Management