This project mainly delivers the investigation of agricultural waste producing and recycling circumstances, and also demonstrates the waste baseline data model to review the current related regulations and policies. At the same time, it establishes a proper recycle processing system of agricultural waste for the sustainable development. This project accomplishes the following achievements. 1. Collecting and analyzing the data accumulated in the last 10 years from 1995 to 2004 to estimate the change tendency of agricultural waste producing quantity for future five years. 2. Completing 40 sessions of the field investigation of agricultural waste producing and recycling institutions, and modifying the statistic data which is inconsistent with the current status. 3. Collecting the domestic laws and regulations of compost and the fodder to reveal the high concern of heavy metals, mainly the copper and the zinc, of the animal manure compost. 4.Examining 80 inspections of soil recycling products, which reveals the heavy metal content in products of the industrial waste recycling institutions is still high, and the partial samples exceed the soil pollution control standard. 5. Recognizing the insufficient of the domestic laws and regulations. Showing from the overseas agricultural waste control data, most countries do not establish complicated regulations to manage the agricultural waste. They only aim at specific materials and the prohibited behaviors to demonstrate the recycling and the control. 6.By comparing the control items of COA and EPA, this project plans to conduct the basic data and statistics of agricultural waste flow direction. 7.Proposing the corresponding strategy and the concrete measure for the current issue of agricultural waste, through the actions for e.g., raising up the reporting rate of agricultural waste, we expect to promote the recycling ratio of agricultural waste, which will gradually achieves zero waste.

Agricultural waste; waste management;Agricultural legislation