To promote the “Zero Waste” policy in Taiwan for proper waste disposal, to carry out the “Review and Outlook of Waste Treatment Solutions”, and to achieve the scheduled mid-term target of “Zero Waste Disposal” in 2011, this program has conducted the following tasks: (I) Analyzed the policy, regulations, and promotion model for the clearance, treatment, and recycle of waste materials in Taiwan, EU, USA, and Japan. Summarized the current tasks and issues for promoting the “Zero Waste Disposal” policy in Taiwan, and assisted the Environmental Protection Administration in carrying out the implementation and management duties. (II) Illustrated the results of the zero waste disposal policy in Taiwan; analyzed and summarized the generated volume, recycle volume, and clearance volume of municipal waste to establish the baseline data, where it indicated an overall improvement of the recycle volume and recycle rate for recyclable resources, food waste, and bulky waste in 2007 over the previous year. The disposal or treatment rate of garbage reached 99.60% and the garbage clearance volume per capita per day has dropped to 0.583kg. Furthermore, the program analyzed the intermediate treatment, recycling, final disposal facility for the treatment volume or recycle volume of municipal waste, as well as evaluated the trends of the generated volume, recycle volume, and clearance volume of municipal waste, presenting the most optimal baseline and supply-demand balance sheet for the general waste recycling, intermediate treatment, and final disposal facilities. (III) Assisted the Environmental Protection Administration in revising the “General Waste Recycling Program” and tracking of various tasks associated; provided summary to the implementation models, progress report, management coordination, and agenda meetings for the “Review and Outlook of Waste Treatment Solution.” At the same time, assisted the Environmental Protection Administration in reviewing the policies towards the recycling model, channel, and current treatment methods of food waste and bulky waste. (IV) Collected the municipal waste landfill establishment and regulating rules in the EU, USA, and Japan etc.; as well as the storage type landfill establishment and management thereof in Japan. (V) Provided performance review of 30 public landfills and found that 8 sites violated the regulations and still accepted raw garbage. Performed the “Public Landfill Management Regulations and Performance Research”, from which the team also summarized the quantity, location, and accepted waste types and volume for all landfills in operation in Taiwan to audit the implementation of the “No raw garbage into the landfill” policy in the public landfills.

Municipal waste, waste treatment, reuse