The implementation of this project achieves the following: 1. Complete the convening of the 2009 International Conference on Sustainable Materials Management. In the conference, eight scholars and experts from Taiwan and abroad were invited to give a speech on dedicated topics. The number of participants to the conference was 108. 2. The convening of two small seminars featuring the theme of sustainable materials management was completed. One seminar is for scholastic purpose whereas the other is held for practicality. Experts, scholars, representatives from organizations and the industry in Taiwan and from other countries were all invited to these events to give their precious opinions about the related topics. 3. Field trips were paid to Vickers Group and Gau Yang Yi Enterprise CO., the former of which is a resource recycling plant and the latter is a waste management and handling plant.

Sustainable Materials Management；Waste Management；International Conference