The project was to investigate recycling industry and a blue-printed plan for future development. There were four aims in the project: the first was to clarify the definitions and relations among “Green Industry”, “Environmental Protection Industry” and “Recycling Industry”, to investigate the careers’ category of recycling industry, and to create the careers’ database of detailed list. The second was to establish a model for gathering the primary company data of recycling industry, and further the follow-up study would collect data to calculate the output value. The third was to collect secondary data of recycling industry and calculate the output value at the present stage. The fourth was to analyze and strengthen the purpose of “Resource recycling management fund” to promote recycling industry. The careers of recycling industry included “waste recycling and disposal enterprises”, “public/private waste clearance and disposal organization”, “reuse organizations”, “retail sale of used merchandise in specialized stores”, “wholesale of recyclable materials”, and “rehabilitating and reprocessing material manufactures”. Rehabilitating and reprocessing material manufactures were not included in Standard Industrial Classification System of the Republic of China; however they belong to the recycling industry according to the general principles of “Waste Disposal Act” and “Resource Recycling Act”. Up to now, resource recycling management fund has been used following the regulation requirement. Purposes of the fund include the recycling research, the affairs of auditing and verifying, testifying responsible enterprises, the affairs of dissemination and communication, promoting development of recycling technology and facilities, the subsidies for clearance and disposal, and the expenditure of general administration. According to the result of expenditure analysis of resource recycling management fund, subsidizing recycling technology and equipment, expanding the recycling product market, and installing the recycling material website of transaction can develop recycling industry. To promote the recycling industry will enable our country to turn into sustainable development.

Recycling industry, Estimation of output value, Resource recycling management fund