Waste management

Management Policy

Reason for the Issue's Importance

Impact and Influence

• Economic Potential Negative Impact: Stricter environmental regulations increase costs for processing equipment and service providers due to more detailed recycling requirements.
• Economic Actual Positive Impact: Complying with regulations by using qualified waste processors reduces the likelihood of environmental fines.
• Environmental Actual Positive Impact: Selecting compliant waste processors ensures proper waste handling and environmental hygiene.
• Human Rights Potential Negative Impact: Hazardous waste leaks can endanger stakeholder health
• Human Rights Actual Positive Impact: Properly executing resource recycling and increasing equipment as required by law ensures the legal temporary storage of industrial waste, preventing environmental pollution and protecting stakeholders' health.

Policy/Strategy

Goals and Targets

• Seek vendors to decompose environmental material PLA, whose decomposed waste can be composted for recycling.
• Purchase plate-free printers to reduce waste from printed PC plates and printing films.
• Procure soy-based eco-friendly ink to replace regular printing ink to reduce environmental pollution.

Management Evaluation Mechanism

• Conduct irregular visits to specific waste contractors for inspection.
• Find qualified waste transportation/disposal vendors, verify their permits, and ensure they have the company's waste codes to comply with regulations.

Performance and Adjustments

• The entrusted waste contractors are qualified vendors, achieving a 100% compliance rate.
• Contracts with waste contractors are signed, achieving a 100% compliance rate.
• Currently, the main materials used are still plastics. Therefore, the company has actively started developing PLA recycled materials, soybean eco-friendly ink, etc., as raw materials for products and seeking qualified vendors to recycle PLA materials to reduce waste volume.

Preventive or Remedial Measures

• Properly execute resource recycling and, as required by regulations, entrust qualified vendors to handle industrial waste.
• Ensure that qualified recycling vendors strictly adhere to regulations in the handling of industrial waste.

Waste Disposal

Waste Statistics Table

1. Waste composition can be filled out with reference to the "Waste Disposal Plan" classification (A/B/C/D/E/R, etc.).
2. Waste weight is measured in tons.
3. Types of recycling operations: such as preparation for reuse, recycling, and other recovery operations.
4. Types of recycling: such as downcycling, upcycling, composting, or anaerobic digestion.
5. Other recovery operations: such as repurposing or refurbishing.
6. Types of intermediate disposal methods include incineration (with or without energy recovery), thermal treatment, and physical treatment.
7. "Off-site" refers to outside the physical boundary or administrative control of the reporting organization.

Recycling and Reuse

Raw Material Statistics

1. Material types include raw natural resources like ores, iron, wood, plastic pellets; lubricants for machinery, semifinished parts or components; packaging materials also count.
2. Non-renewable refers to resources that cannot be replenished in the short term, such as coal, natural gas, metals, minerals, petroleum; renewable refers to resources that regenerate after being harvested.
3. Since the card business unit accounts for 88% of the company's total revenue, the weight of raw materials disclosed in this table mainly pertains to the card business unit products.