| 英文摘要 |
Since 1997, the Environmental Protection Administration has established the Four-in-one resources recycling scheme for domestic resources recycling system which has been proven to be effective and has achieved significant improvement on the waste management and resources recovery performance. Under the resource recycling scheme, the Resource Recycling Fund has been founded to collect fees from manufacturing or consumption of designated items, which provide essential financial supports to encourage resources recycling and recovery business for recycling, cleaning, and treatment of wastes/resources through administrative processes as subsidies to the industry. Business participating in the scheme is subject to more frequent supervision to ensure adequate operation and demonstrates better willingness in regulatory compliance. The scheme not only helps in development of domestic recycling business but also reduces the possibilities of secondary pollution caused by handling and treatment of all kinds of material.
Although the positive influences have been observed through the above efforts, in the past dozen years it is considered that most of research projects and programs implemented by the authorities emphasized on studying such issues from the aspects of governmental regulations, management systems, technological improvement, and economical factors in order to improve resources recycling performance. And most of the previous projects dealt with the issues in the views of waste treatment and waste management. It is believed that business and industry for resource recycling and recovery can be grown more strongly and stably if the market follows the rule of free competition. That is, subsidies may be necessary in the startup stage but may distort the market in the long run. Therefore, this study tries to looking at the current status of recycling and treatment of end-of-life vehicles through business operation in the industry. Some representative business can be used as study models to give better knowledge on production, operation, and performance of the industry which are compared under the effects of the government environmental management strategies. It is proposed that characteristics of the recycling business of ELV can be identified and then suggestions can be given to the competent agencies for further improvement in government policies and strategies. In this study, information on domestic collection, treatment, and recycling and recovery of end-of-life vehicles, including motorcycles, has been investigated and examined. Data collected from site-visits to the business and official database was analyzed. Representative business was selected and the business behavior, such as the operation and management patterns, and their performance was discussed. Finally, it is concluded with suggestions and discussions on existing government strategies in hope that the resource recycling and recovery business and industry can be further improved.
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