There are three main goals of this project: (A) Studying the potential “reuse and recycling renewable resources items” in order to support EPA to promote resources reuse and recycling and to strengthen the recycling markets; (B) Proposing relating regulatory requirements and national standards; (C) Providing consulting service to recycling business in technology improvement and market promotion. In goal (A), this project makes progress in two aspects: 1. completing the regulatory proposal for ten “reuse and recycling renewable resources items;” these ten items are: wood pallets, plastic pallets, metal pallets, paper pallets, electric cord and cable reels, bulk bags, fertilizer bags, activated charcoal, metal buckets bigger than 50 gallons(including) for industrial uses, and plastic buckets bigger than 50 gallons(including) for industrial uses; 2. organizing the public discussion meeting of the regulatory proposal of these ten “reuse and recycling renewable resources items” on May 29, 2007. In goal (B), this project achieves the following results. 1. This project analyzes the current national standards and finds that there are 2173 items meet the definitions of recycling product。 We also make some suggestions for EPA: a. If a new recycling standard is issued by developed countries, such as U.S., Japan, or European countries, and the product is successfully sold in the market without safety concerns, we suggest to introduce such standard into Taiwan in order to reduce the gaps between Taiwan and the global recycling markets. b. We suggest to establish more national standards in the areas of construction materials in order to meet the international trends in “green construction.” c. Because the current green labeling issuing by governments is still lack of the basis of mother laws, we suggest to establish a new law in this direction to provide stronger legal supports in promoting recycling products. d. We suggest to provide clear requirements and labeling for recycling products, so the public can easily distinguish whether a product is “environment-friendly,“ and it will help to promote the image of those companies producing recycling products. 2. Based on the requirements of Japan national standard JIS A 5741:2006 Wood-plastic recycled composite, we also introduce a similar draft proposal of wood-plastic recycled composite for Taiwan’s national standard. In goal (C), this project not only provides consulting service to recycling and manufacturing companies but also completes a operation procedures for company consulting. In addition, this project also organizes 4 conferences for recycling related companies in legal requirement consulting and inter-net reporting system consulting.

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