The project period was from Mar 2, 2009 to Dec 31, 2009. The tasks included analysis of the foreign and domestic environmental technologies for the battery and lamp industries, investigation of the environmental risks during the recycling processes, sampling and testing for the heavy metal contents within the batteries and lamps in the market, the public campaigns and activities of promoting waste batteries and waste lamps collection for raising the collection efficiency. The collections of the foreign and domestic environmental design regulations of waste batteries and waste lamps had been completed. By analyzing the data, the suggestion of combining the green mark with the green differential rate is feasible. Besides, the results of analyzing the foreign and domestic production technologies and markets for the battery and lamp industries showed that the secondary Lithium battery and the compact fluorescent lamp are the future tendency. By evaluating the foreign recycling technologies, the suggestions for raising the quality of recycled materials and the recycling rate included increasing the testing frequency of the hazardous substances within recycled materials, inspecting the pollution prevention equipments, etc. Based on the present environmental monitoring data, the analysis of environmental assessments and risk evaluations showed that the recycling processes of the specific recycling facilities should be safe, and the non-cancer risk factors are also in the acceptable range. According to the test results of the sampling batteries, all samples’ Hg, Cd, and Pb quantity contents were complied with the regulation standard. For the test results of the sampling lamps, the Hg quantity contents of 1 fluorescent tube and 2 circular fluorescent lamps were much higher as comparing to others. The scheme of promoting the battery producer/retailer for joining the battery collection activities had been finished. 3 public campaigns for promoting the waste collection were hold up in RT-Mart successfully. There were 141 kg waste batteries and 700 waste lamps collected during the activities. Besides, 3 collection councils were hold up in the north region, mid region, and south region. The collection councils’ purposes were enhancing the collection concepts of local environmental authorities and the collection industry by exchanging the experiences and learning on site. Also, one public information session on waste batteries collection was held for fishery association. At last, the waste batteries and waste lamps collection handbook, posters, and DM had been designed and printed. Those documents were sent to all members participated in the collection councils as exerted references for promoting the waste collection continuously.

design for environment, green differential rate, technology development and market tendency of products, recycling ratio, risk assessments, testing heavy metal contents, public campaign for wastes collection.