Beverage Container Deposit Policy

• Main Authors: Kun-Yen Li, 李坤燕
• Other Authors: Lie-chien Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31032803462405765598

碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 運籌管理研究所 === 99 === According to the audited and certified statistics from Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan, the glass container, ranks the first in waste containers, weighted 39.4% of Taiwan’s total amount of waste container materials between year 86 and year 98.　As U.S Food and Drug Administration also pointed out, glass is the only packaging material rated as “generally recognized as safe” or “generally regarded as safe” packaging material.　And according to a 2006 survey conducted by Newton Marketing & Research of Norman, Oklahoma, consumers like the glass packaging for maintaining the purity of food and beverages (78 percent), preserving a product’s taste or flavor (75 percent), and maintaining the integrity or healthiness of foods and beverages (82 percent).　Glass container has been accepted by the public and is considered the preferred packaging material. Among the many kinds of food packaging containers, glass container is one of packaging materials that can reuse its “original bottle”.　Once the broken glass containers cannot be re-used anymore, it is one hundred percent recyclable since the glass is mainly composed of silica sand which the quality and purity can be continuously generated without producing additional waste or by-products during the recycling process. In Taiwan’s food industry, glass containers are generally used once – one way disposable. Currently, the recycling of rice wine and beer bottles produced by Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau and the soft drink glass containers are conducted under each producer’s own bottle disposable policy, which is executed through retailer channels. Through analysis and findings from several research works, the purpose of this paper is to lead the consumers with new concepts on the drink packaging so that to choose the glass containers packaged drinks.　In the aspects of beverage industry, with the execution of the glass container disposal policy, it will induce people to optimize bottle disposal pricing and cost to reduce the breakage of glass containers and then to increase number of times of usage of the original glass containers.　With those successful cases in implementing such green packaging efforts, it will encourage the food industry to utilize "reusable original glass bottles " green packaging.