The recycling and reuse of kitchen waste and bulk waste has been practiced in Taiwan for many years. In addition to the increasing of recycling rate, the main focuses of such efforts are in improving reuse ratio and economic benefits of reuse to ensure the sustainability of recyclers. To this end, this project has completed the following tasks: (1)Conducted the performance evaluation of 25 counties/cities’ kitchen waste and bulk waste recycling programs; (2)Organized one national kitchen waste and one bulk waste recycling and reuse practice review meeting respectively; (3)Completed 15 performance evaluations of county/city(town/city) kitchen waste composting plants and bulk waste recycling and reuse plants, and assisted them in planning for reuse channels and improving the product quality; (4)Organized 4 best operating practice demonstrations for the relevant workers of the local governments’ kitchen waste and bulk waste recycling plants; (5)Completed the establishment of matching system among local public implementation agencies and private sector, and development of common supply contract language for bulk waste recycling and reuse, in order to encourage the participation of private enterprise and integrate available private and public resources; (6)Completed the practical implementation plan to gradually increase annual kitchen waste composting ratio; (7)Completed the environmental, economic and social benefit analyses for local governments’ bulk furniture waste repairing and auctioning activities; (8)Assisted in the update and maintenance of EPA’s kitchen waste and bulk waste resource recycling system and web pages (both Chinese and English versions); (9)Complied and established the county/city kitchen waste composting plants’ intermediate and finished products’ testing and analytical results, and provided recommendations on quality improvement; (10)Completed tracking of current status of private sector’s voluntary kitchen waste composting facilities; (11)Arranged for EPA personnel’s visit and observation of the biomass waste energy reuse plants/operations in Europe.

kitchen waste, compost, recycling, bulk waste