For the purpose of increasing recycling rate of Ping Tung County, Ping Tung Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) had enhanced the promotion of the importance of waste separation, reusing and recycling to the Ping Tung citizens. To successfully improve the recycling rate of the county, EPB had established the “Ping Tung County Waste Recycling Inspection and Promotion on the Responsible Businesses and Shops” project to administrate and evaluate on the results of the waste recycling that local councils, schools, local communities, responsible businesses, shops, and recycling organizations which had carried out. BT Environmental Consulting had assisted Ping Tung EPB to ascertain that the above bodies had complied with the government regulations on implementing waste recycling, establishing on-site recycling facilities, and recyclables had collected and processed by EPA authorized organizations. The project had been executed by BT Environmental Consulting in the duration between 20th of August and 31st of December 2007. The results are as follows, 1. Recycling results of Ping Tung County Both Ping Tung County EPB and BT Environmental Consulting endeavored to increase the recycling rate in the year of 2007. The recycling rate of Ping Tung County of 2007 had increased to 21.16%. Comparing to 2006, the recycling rate had a 1.2% growth. In 2007, the county had collected 56,087 tons of recyclable goods in total. Analyzing the collected recyclables, we found 42% of the recyclables are used paper and 13.2% are used glass bottles. In order to elevate of the morale and knowledge of recycling teams and to increase the efficiency of recycling works of Ping Tung County, BT Environmental Consulting had cooperated with EPB to complete 13 training classes to the recycling teams of each local council of Ping Tung County. 2. Used fluorescent light and used battery recycling Two large-scale recycling promotion festivals on the used batteries, used fluorescent lights, used plastic containers and used plastic bags were held on the 10th and 27th of October 2007 in Ping Tung County. The purpose of the festivals was to raise the awareness of resource depletion and educate the correct concept of recycling. The attendance at this festival was excellent; it attracted over 1,500 people for the participation. Within January and July 2007, Ping Tung County had collected 96,017KG of used batteries. The 56% of used batteries were from government departments. In the same period, 89,282KG of used fluorescent lights were collected. 51% of the used fluorescent lights were from government departments. 3. Responsible Shops Inspection Tasks There were 875 registered responsible shops in Ping Tung County. Within these responsible shops, the convenient stores account up to 28% in total quantity. BT Environmental Consulting project team had inspected 769 of 875 registered responsible shops, and found all shops had established on-site recycling facilities for shoppers to dispose, which was a superb success. 4. Recycling Imagine Reforming Activities BT Environmental Consulting project team had assisted 6 recycling companies, 50 recyclable collectors and 3 communities to improve their working facilities and environments. 5. Restricted Plastic Usage and Responsible Businesses Inspection Tasks BT Environmental Consulting project team had inspected 836 shops and restaurants, and found none of the shops and restaurants was using prohibited plastic bags. In the responsible business and products inspection, our auditors found 167 out of 907 inspected products were not having recycling symbols printed on them; 113 businesses and 54 products were not registered with EPA. 6. Miscellaneous On the 17th of September, BT Environmental Consulting had held an over-packaging prohibition legislation conference. To inform food products manufacturers and importers to understand the new regulations legislated by the EPA and inspection methods and conditions of Ping Tung County EPB. To successfully promote the importance of recycling works, succession of recycling propaganda was carried out within the project execution period. In the 1st of December 2008, the project team held an over-packaging prohibition festival in Ping Tung County. The main purpose of the festival was to publicize the concept of reusing, recycling, and reducing.