| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 地球環境暨生物資源學系碩士在職專班 === 104 === The recycling situation early days in Taiwan was quite unjust. The manufacturers used to think that the government should be responsible for recycling, cleaning and handling used products for all the customers. This also means that they thought the costs for waste recycling and garbage disposal were not included in the enterprise's production costs. Luckily, in the late 1980's, a new environmental law theory -- “Extended Producer Responsibility, EPR” came out. The theory is based on the “Polluter Pays Principle” and “Polluter Solution Principle” of the environmental law.
In the “Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)” system, the producer should be responsible for recycling, cleaning and handling used products. In this way, not only can the producers share responsibilities with the government and the customers, but it will stimulate them to deal with the problems of the products after they have been used. Thus, they will try hard to work on green designs and save earth’s natural resources even more. Hopefully, this could solve the following recycling problems right from the start. The EPR system is really a key to the systematization of recycling in Taiwan. I chose EPR and the recycling system in Taiwan as my research topic. Based on them, there are four research goals.
My research methods are ‘documentary analysis method’, ‘history induction method’, ‘interview method’ and ‘method of comparative analysis’. The discussion begins with the analysis of EPR basic theory and the literature review. Then, it explains the history, the development, the important draft resolutions and implementation of the recycling system in Taiwan. The research also includes the interviews with the industry and the government about their opinions of recycling system. After the inside research, we know that the legislative consolidation of our present “Waste Disposal Act” and “Recycling and Reuse Act” is really necessary. Next, my study is focus on the comparative research among the ‘legislative consolidation’ of every draft. Finally, the research is on the discussion about how to build Taiwan’s future recycling system based on the EPR system to make further progress. In Chapter Six, it also includes several specific suggestions, which are my final research goals. I sincerely hope that my suggestions in this thesis can be a great help for the recycling issues, legal systems and the environmental protection system in Taiwan.
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