In order to efficiently utilize the human and financial resources of the government used in municipal waste recycling, EPA of Taiwan has mandated the producer responsibility recycling system for several designated post-consumer products. As of the end of 1997, these designated items includes general waste containers, scrap tires, scrap agriculture chemical containers, spent lead-acid batteries, waste lubricant oils, scrap motor vehicles, scrap appliances, and scrap fluorescent tubes. A producer responsibility recycling system means that the manufacturers, importers and sellers of these designated products are responsible to retrieve their products and recycle them properly. The development and implementation Taiwan's producer responsibility recycling system is presented in this study.