A Study on the Transformation of Existing Industrial Parks into Eco-Industrial Parks - Example of WuGu Industrial Park

• Main Authors: Shou-Jhih Chen, 陳碩之
• Other Authors: Allen H. Hu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mtp872

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 環境工程與管理研究所 === 96 === There are lots of industrial parks in Taiwan, although their functions are multiply, they are facing lots of problems, such as limited to small-medium enterprises, oversupply of idle plants within the region, divergent authorities, misplaced resource distribution, various waste and pollution problems, and advocacy to improve their environmental performance from different stakeholders. These problems contribute to the operational inefficiencies in our traditional industrial parks, which create a necessity to transform existing industrial parks into Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs). However, very few literatures are focusing on this area so far. Thus, this study tries to investigate the feasibility and the approaches of transforming existing industrial parks into eco-industrial parks in Taiwan. In this study, an extensive literature review on industrial ecology and eco-symbiosis was conducted to summarize the approaches and pathways for traditional Industrial parks becoming eco-industrial parks. After that, the WuGu Industrial Parks in Taipei County was adopted as a case to study how existing traditional industrial parks can be transformed into eco-industrial parks. Companies in the WuGu industrial parks were carefully evaluated and possible eco-industrial clusters were formed virtually according the types of wastes of the companies. Environmental and economic benefits before and after the formation of eco-clusters were also estimated. After intensive investigation on the types of wastes generated by enterprises within the WuGu Industrial Park, it is found that at least 10 eco-clusters can be formed. There are waste lubricating oil, waste edible oil, plastic pellet waste, waste ink, spent catalyst, sandblasting, etching fluid, lotion and waste acid, waste slag and sand casting, organic sludge, and silicon iron smelting (powder) etc. Due to the lack of information on the amount of waste generation, this study only completes the environmental and economic benefits estimation for four eco-clusters. The results showed that totally 12.26 tones of waste per month can be reduced, which can save about 100,000 NTD for waste disposal (excluding labor cost). Assuming all the wastes can be recovered and becoming raw materials of companies within the respective eco-cluster, the total cost saved can be obtained up to 1.2 billion NTD per month. Finally, based on the case study of Wuhu Industrial Park, this study also concluded several suggestions for transforming an existing traditional industrial park into an eco-industrial park; there are: to form a taskforce for propelling the transformation; to publicize the information platform of the resource recovery and waste exchange; to reduce individual companies’ energy and resource usage and waste production; to introduce waste recovery plants from outside the park if necessary; to strengthen the function of administration center of the park in order to trace and control the pathway and amount of the wastes and emissions; to encourage individual companies to adopt green building concept for their factories; to provide legal, policy and economic incentives to enable companies to do self-management; to ensure information flow and capital flow are smooth. This is expected that this study can provide a new way for the existing but unsustainable industrial parks to become sustainable Eco-Industrial Parks.