What used to be known as the “Petrochemical Kingdom” is now leading the fight against the production and use of plastics, or coming up with clever alternatives There was a time not so long ago when simply having a shower would typically release hundreds of thousands of plastic microbeads down the drain. Eventually they would…
Recently Taiwan Business TOPICS magazine sat down with Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Minister Lee Ying-yuan to discuss the state of Taiwan’s environmental health. Below is an edited transcript of that conversation, supplemented with written replies from the EPA. What do you consider to be the biggest environmental challenges that Taiwan is currently facing? For…
The third receiving terminal has been postponed for environmental reasons – the prospective impact on a unique reef. Citing the need for further study of the rare coral reefs that lie nearby beneath the waters off Taoyuan County, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) on October 26 called for further postponement of a project to build…
Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) introduced the Green Mark program in 1992 as a voluntary eco-labeling system intended to “promote the concept of recycling, pollution reduction, and resource conservation.” The program divides products into over a hundred categories, each with a specific set of criteria that align product categories with sustainable development principles. In the…
On the last day of 2015, state-owned petroleum company CPC pulled the plug on its Kaohsiung Refinery in the city’s Nanzih District, putting an end to what had been a 25-year-long dispute between advocates of economic development and environmental and community activists. The facility operated as a large integrated refinery and petrochemicals plant, with a…
The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) nixed Yunlin County’s plans to ban the burning of coke and coal within the county, saying that coal-fired power plants are a matter of national energy security and are beyond the jurisdiction of a county government. Yunlin County announced last June that it would ban the burning of coal and…
