Development of Taiwan Sustainable Remediation Processes and a Case Study
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Li, Yu-Hsuan
Abstract
According to the remediation processes of the American, they only consider how to reduce the concentration of the pollutant in the site. Hence, they ignore not only the consumption of the resource and the energy, but the impact on the environment during the remediation period. The remediation action is regarded as an unsustainable human activity. To improve the disadvantage, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency applies the sustainable concepts to develop the green remediation. On the other hand, by reviewing the Taiwan remediation processes, we can find that Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency only asks the planners to design the pollution control plan. Under the circumstances, only the endpoints are focused, and the management of the resource and the energy in advance to abate the environmental impact is lacking. Therefore, we should learn how to improve the sustainability of remediation action.
In the past, there are three studies which combine the remediation action with the sustainable thinking: brownfield, green remediation and sustainable remediation. Green remediation first takes the environmental impact during the remediation period into consideration. The advantages are the researching on the whole strategies of promoting the sustainability during the remediation period and the application of life cycle thinking to reveal relative information. Sustainable remediation develops complete processes from sustainable design to sustainable evaluation. It also expands the concerned issues to the aspect of economy and society. Brownfield focuses on how to evaluate the opportunities of reusing the contaminated sites. One of the methods sets up remediation levels based on the type of the land reuse, which would be less strict than on the non-target land reuse. Furthermore, it would affect the sustainability of the remediation action.
The advantages of the above studies are supposed to be adopted in Taiwan sustainable processes to concern the effect during the remediation period. To establish Taiwan sustainable remediation processes, this research develops two phases. First, it integrates the site-based remediation level with the original process of technologies selection. Second, it connects the process from sustainable design to sustainable evaluation and the original process of technologies selection by life cycle analysis of the remediation technologies. Moreover, a case study is presented to display the complete sustainable remediation processes and also the data planners are suggested to collect.
Subjects
Sustainable remediation
Green remediation
Brownfield
Taiwan remediation processes
SDGs
Type
thesis
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