According to Liu Juei-hsiang, deputy executive secretary of the EPA’s Recycling Fund Management Board, these foreign professionals came to Taiwan to attend the Resource Recycling Forum at the Taipei World Trade Center Oct. 3-5 and to exchange information on resource recycling.

Participants visiting the plants included Kenichi, professor of Kumamoto University, Hirotaka Ohki, senior managing director of Japan Automobile Recycling Promotion Center, Bertrand Schultz, president of European Battery Recycling Association, and Steve Andrews, director of Department of Enterprise, Business and Innovation of Britain.

They visited Thye Ming Industrial Co. in the county’s Taliao township, which recycles about 36,000 tons of lead batteries per year, and an environmental engineering company that enjoyed an increase in its recycling rate from 65 percent in 2001 to 72 percent in 2007.

Liu said Taiwan’s recycling performance tops the world, with a recycling rate of 36 percent. The nation has over 500 resource recycling plants, and over 200 factories reusing recycled resources. It recycles about 220,000 vehicles every year, and enjoys a recycling rate greater than 70 percent when it comes to lead batteries.

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