In this scheme, the recycling funds play the key role. All manufacturers of products that end up as solid-waste resources — including cars, motorcycles, plastic containers, light bulbs, dry-cell batteries, electronics, and so on — have to pay a recycling fee to the EPA up front, which the EPA uses to subsidize companies that do the actual recycling.
其中扮演關鍵環節的「回收基金制度」，意即當業者生產汽機車、塑膠容器、燈管、乾電池、3C 產品等資源垃圾時，需先預繳給環保署一筆「回收基金」，環保署再將這筆基金補貼給回收商。