Assessment of Ecological Footprints of Waste Incineration in Taiwan

• Main Authors: YANG, SHENG-AN, 楊勝安
• Other Authors: LEE, YUH-MING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pf3gd6

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 自然資源與環境管理研究所在職專班 === 107 === Humans have accelerated their demands in deforestation, fishing and hunting that exceed the limit of supply chain in natural resources since 1970. The huge utilization of natural resources cannot be recovered, which indicate the overloaded usage in resources caused less resources and incremental wastes. This consequence leads to higher carbon concentration in the atmosphere. In accordance with “The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act” regulation, the perspective of emission source is applied: ISO 14064 uses organization as an inspection unit, whereas Local Government Greenhouse Gas Inventories to the county and the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory use department as the inspection unit to cross-examine the emission. Due to the waste incineration involves emission sources and the waste sectors, the application and methodology of this research will mainly focused on the emission factor of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act, the county-level Greenhouse Gas Inventory and the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory department Firstly, this research estimates the capita ecological deficit based on the global and Taiwan ecological footprint and ecological deficit. Secondly, it applies the concept of “Ecological Footprint” and “National Ecological Footprint Account” to assess the footprint estimation of twenty-four waste incinerations in Taiwan. Regarding to the characteristics of the incineration plant, “Carbon-uptake and Built-up land” of the six categories of productive surface areas are integrated to estimate CO2 emission and carbon intensity. The calculation about land areas of incineration plants with different administrative regions in Taiwan would enhance clear overview of the waste incineration ecological footprint across various counties and cities. This methodology presents comprehensive effects, not only the efficiency assessment for each plant, which enables further discussion to the cause and effect of incineration issues.