Executive Yuan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) promulgated “Recyclable Waste Auditing and Certification Regulation” based on Article 18, paragraph 2 of “Waste Disposal Act”. EPA Recycling Fund Management Committee is in accordance with the audited and certificated amount by auditing and certification group to subsidy the subsidized organizations. TUV Reinland Taiwan Ltd. (TUV) was entrusted by Taiwan EPA to implement the project “ The Third-party Auditing and Certification on Obligated Recyclable Waste Plastic Containers”, from April 01, 2005 to June 30, 2006. Seventeen subsidized organizations were audited and certificated during this period. The collected and treated amounts of Waste Plastic Containers were 199,851,547 kilograms and 197,214,489 kilograms, respectively. TUV auditing and certification team found 1,805,304 kilograms of impurity and prevented to over subsidy of 9,970,758 NT dollars from Management Committee’s issuance to subsidized organizations. It was positive for waste recycling auditing and certification system. TUV executed 250 times of accounting audit and inventory check, 250 times of environment-safety-health audit, 3,269 times of facility check, 82,210 hours of CCTV monitoring check in the project. The total results of major deviation and abnormal events found through regular/irregular inspections and audits were 41, mainly including impurity of incoming shipments, as well as abnormal certified quantity. Among all inspected factories, SUNNY Environmental Consultants, Ltd. (Tao-Yuan) and Yong-Yi Company had the most abnormal records of 5. For better understanding and management on the type of PET plastic containers, TUV had accomplished a special program by providing the service on “bottle-to-bottle counting inspection” for EPA in June, September and December 2005. To enhance the control mechanism and assure the proper treatment/disposal on wastes, TUV had accomplished 68 times of outside inspection program of “Derivative wastes tracking”. In accordance with the current situation and problems found, TUV had not only provided concrete solutions for improvement, but also proposed several programs and recommendations for enhancing the auditing and certification efficiency and modified “The Operational Manual”, which was announced on August 1, 2005.

Waste Plastic Containers, Third-party of Auditing and Certification, collected/treated amount