Executive Yuan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) promulgated “Recyclable Waste Auditing and Certification Regulation” based on Article 18, paragraph 2 of “Waste Disposal Act”. EPA Recycling Fund Management Committee is in accordance with the audited and certificated amount by auditing and certification group to subsidy the subsidized organizations. TUV Reinland Taiwan Ltd. (TUV) was entrusted by Taiwan EPA to implement the project “ The Third-party Auditing and Certification on Obligated Recyclable Waste Plastic Containers”, from April 01, 2006 to March 31, 2007. Seventeen subsidized organizations were audited and certificated during this period. The collected and treated amounts of Waste Plastic Containers were 173,658,676 kilograms and 171,693,322 kilograms, respectively. TUV auditing and certification team found 1,910,017 kilograms of impurity and prevented to over subsidy of 11,074,775 NT dollars from Management Committee’s issuance to subsidized organizations. It was positive for waste recycling auditing and certification system. TUV executed 213 times of accounting audit and inventory check, 204 times of environment-safety-health audit, 2,524 times of facility check, 63,823 hours of CCTV monitoring check in the project. The total results of major deviation and abnormal events found through regular/irregular inspections and audits were 55, mainly including impurity of incoming shipments, as well as abnormal certified quantity. For better understanding and management on the type of PVC plastic containers, TUV had accomplished a special program by providing the service on “bottle-to-bottle counting inspection” for EPA on 2 times of 2006. To enhance the control mechanism and assure the proper treatment/disposal on wastes, TUV had accomplished 59 times of outside inspection program of “Derivative wastes tracking”. In accordance with the current situation and problems found, TUV had not only provided concrete solutions for improvement, but also proposed several programs and recommendations for enhancing the auditing and certification efficiency and modify “The Operational Manual”, which was announced on April 1, 2007. Last, TUV provides several recommendations based on the management experience on recycling plants and current situation of recycling system. Recommendations include PVC derivatives down stream market analysis, collector registration, treatment problem in new announced obliged materials and environmental/health/safety issues. Those recommendations can, in the future, help EPA to come up with concrete policies and regulation revisions. More, TUV also focuses on recycling analysis of PVC label, CCTV maintenances, business feature studying of plastic container recycling plant and developed solid solutions. Details please refer to the following chapters. TUV has been continuously providing the latest information of recycling system and current status of each recycling plant. In order to increase the operation quality of recycling system, as a qualified certification body under EPA’s supervision, TUV will follow up the existing problems and improvement actions and feedback the instant operation results to EPA.

Waste Plastic Containers, Third-party of Auditing and Certification,