The third session

Half of the earth's natural resources are used in construction industries. Nowadays, when natural resources are increasingly scarce, creating a good recycling construction environment will help reduce the exploitation and harm to the environment. In Taiwan, more than 30 million metric tons of waste are generated by businesses and constructions a year. These are actually misplaced resources that can be reused in the industry system. In order to encourage related industries to actively reduce greenhouse gas and recycle materials, the Society organized the "Cement and Steel Industry Opportunities and Challenges in Circular Economy Seminar" on 7/15 (Wed.), focusing on the development of Taiwan's cement and steel industry for circular economy, share the achievements and challenges of investing in the circular economy, so as to provide all walks of life with understanding of Taiwan’s traditional industries efforts to transform.

Construction-related industries used to be regarded as high-consumption and high-polluting industries. However, with the joint efforts of industry, government, academia, and research, the circular economy puzzle of the construction industry has gradually been constructed, regardless of the establishment of the system or the assistance of policies. In the future, we will build a demonstration zone, integrate regional energy, and create applications for product reuse, so that Taiwan's circular construction can speed up the pace and move toward the road of recycling!

In order to promote the domestic construction industry to further move towards a circular economy and be in line with the international certification system, President Leu  of TWSCE and President of the Taiwan Construction Research Institute and Cradle to Cradle Company's founder, Prof. Michael Braungart, under the witness of the Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan, and a number of major domestic building material manufacturers, has officially signed a tripartite cooperation agreement. This reciprocal recognition model for certified building materials products is going to accelerate the increase in the number of domestic building materials recycling certifications to facilitate the design and use of domestic recycling construction.

2020/02/20

President Leu was invited by the Environmental Protection Agency to attend the "EU-TW Circular Economy Seminar 2019" , which co-sponsored by Taiwan and the EU and take place in Brussels, Belgium on 12/9 . Both sides shared experiences and results on issues such as plastic recycling, solar panel design and recycling, and circular construction. after conference, they also went to visit  EU Solar PV CYCLE, EU Building Materials Bank (BAMB), and the headquarter in Rhine, German to get a hands-on understanding of how EU promote the circular economy.

2019/12/07-14