To adapt the consequence of the global lack of resources and the aggravation of environmental quality, both environmental improvement of an industry itself and environmental industries including water reuse, waste recycling, and integrated consultant services need to be developed continuously. How to create sustainable value and reduce environmental burdens simultaneously to fulfill the demands of customers instead of merely pollution control would be a great opportunity for the environmental industry. According to estimation from Environmental Business International INC. (EBI), the annual turnover of global environmental industries is around 628.5 billion US dollars in 2004 and annual growth rate is around 5.5%. Among them, Taiwan accounts for 0.72%, around 4.5 billion US dollars. The turnover of Taiwanese environmental industry in 2010 will reach 6.2 billion US dollars if we assume the growth rate of 5% annually. This project will be focusing on the direction of the policy of the environmental industry managing, and also will be fousing on the opportunity of market and maintaining the investment environment in a good condition. Our project team has completed the trends, measures, and policies of the environmental industry nationwide and worldwide as scheduled. We also visited and made an interview with representative companies of waste recycling (waste plastic, mixed ironware, and acidic solution recycling) and consultant service (including environmental testing and the consultancy of environmental engineering). The status quo and their comments and reflection could be regarded as a important reference for the government to establish the policies or measures to manage the environmental industry. This program with industry and a forum to observe the demonstration will be held to analyze the problems faced by industry and research solutions to cope with this plan of "strengthening the domestic market", "industry body to adjust" and "leading the export markets" The development of the three main axis in the hope that the Government's environmental policy, environmental protection industry can be more of a sound and sustainable development.

Environmental protection industry, policy, management