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Review of recycling performance indicators: A study on collection rate in Taiwan
- Source :
- Waste Management. 29:2248-2256
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2009.
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Abstract
- The Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (Taiwan EPA) launched a national Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system after integrating eight private recycling organizations in 1998. After that, the environmental performance of the EPR system brought a lot of attention to policy makers. Many studies show positive environmental effects of the EPR system in Taiwan. However, there are controversial questions remained, such as whether the performance indicators used are the right choice to estimate the environmental effects of the recycling policy? Can those estimated results really reflect the performance of the system? This paper would therefore like to more accurately evaluate the performance indicators of the EPR system based on data observed over the past decade in Taiwan. In the process of evaluating the performance indicators, we have found that the collection rates for durable goods are often ignored in countries that pursue a zero waste policy. This may affect the actual recycling outcome and resource direction targeted by producers. However, in order for the collection rate to be adopted as a policy indicator, how to estimate the amounts of retired or waste products during a period is critical. In this paper, we estimate the collection rate for electrical and electronic waste by using the survival analysis and ownership data analysis approaches. We also provide a comparison of both approaches and put forward suggestions for directions in the future in solid waste management.
- Subjects :
- Paper
Conservation of Natural Resources
Engineering
Municipal solid waste
Electrical Equipment and Supplies
Iron
Taiwan
Zero waste
Industrial Waste
Electronic waste
Extended producer responsibility
Resource (project management)
Waste Management
Order (exchange)
Product Packaging
Pesticides
Waste Management and Disposal
Lubricants
Waste management
business.industry
Durable good
Environmental economics
Glass
Performance indicator
business
Automobiles
Aluminum
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0956053X
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Waste Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bdec8db776a46ac5e8da5dbd742528ab