Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=20234#.VNCDsizQrzE Author(s) Esher Hsu , Chen-Ming Kuo Affiliation(s) Department. of Statistics, National Taipei Univ., Taipei 104, Taiwan . Department. of Mechanical Eng., I-Shou Univ., Kaohsiung 84008, Taiwan . ABSTRACT Household solid waste recycling has been a major policy of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration. Production values and employment opportunities from recycling are not only a major focus of Taiwan’s Congress, but also the major goal of recycling policies for the EPA. In this study, production values and employment opportunities induced by household solid waste recycling were estimated from a sampling survey. The estimated production values in 1998 were NT$26.9 (USD$0.27) billion from collection/sorting business and NT$44.6 (USD$1.27) billion from the recycling industry. Total estimated added value was approximately NT$...
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