Waste management

Management Policy

Reason for the Issue's Importance

The company produces hazardous industrial waste and general industrial waste within the factory. Given the increasingly stringent environmental regulations on waste, it is necessary to consider waste management as a major issue to comply with legal requirements.

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

Our company's environmental, safety, and health policy commits to "comply with regulations, green production, pollution prevention, resource recycling, hazard prevention, and continuous improvement." We pledge to enhance the monitoring of pollution sources and improve pollution control equipm

Goals and Targets

  • Seek vendors to decompose environmental material PLA, whose decomposed waste can be composted for recycling.
  • Plan to minimize waste volume, thereby decreasing waste disposal, in line with our industrial waste reduction plan.
  • Plan to reconstruct old factory buildings using environmentally friendly building materials. The green factories are expected to include energy storage equipment and solar panels, enabling the Company to partially use green energy to reduce reliance on externally purchased electricity and lower carbon emissions.
  • Plan for PETG cards to achieve net-zero emissions in the future, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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

  • Ensure that all waste service vendors are qualified, achieving a 100% compliance rate.
  • Maintain a 100% contract signing rate with our waste service vendors.
  • Given that plastic remains a primary material used in large quantities, the Company has actively begun developing PETG eco-friendly materials and soy-based eco-friendly inks as raw materials for our products.
  • Compared to 2023, our waste recycling rate reached 12.29% in 2024.
  • Aim to replace conventional printing inks with soy-based eco-friendly inks to reduce environmental pollution. In 2024, our adoption rate for these inks was 85.1%.

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

As a professional manufacturer of plastic cards and various nameplates, the Company’s production processes may generate wastewater, exhaust gas, and waste. We have established relevant environmental management procedures, installed corresponding treatment equipment, and obtained permits from government agencies. In accordance with environmental regulations, we entrust licensed contractors with the transportation and disposal of waste and diligently implement measures to prevent environmental pollution.

Waste Statistics Table

Waste CompositionHazardous/ Non-hazardousOff-site
Item20232024
Generation (tons)Intermediate Disposal MethodGeneration (tons)Intermediate Disposal Method
D-0803 Waste ClothNon-hazardous1.19Incineration1.37Incineration
D-2405 Waste InkNon-hazardous1.56Incineration0.48Incineration
D-0299 Waste Plastic MixtureNon-hazardous29.62Incineration22.57Incineration
R-2408 Waste Activated CarbonNon-hazardous7.01Recycling8.31Recycling
C-0107 Waste Developer SolutionHazardous3.95Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration)6.7Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration)
C-0108 Waste Fixing SolutionHazardous0.98Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration)0.87Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration)
D-2299 Waste FilmNon-hazardous0.59Physical treatment0.01Physical treatment
D-2623 Waste ChipsNon-hazardous0.11Physical treatment0.2Physical treatment
D-2527 Waste Mixed Metal ScrapNon-hazardous0.16Physical treatment0.00–
D-0202 Waste ResinNon-hazardous0.28Incineration0.22Incineration
D-1504 Waste LiquidNon-hazardous5.15Incineration0.00–
D-0901有機性污泥Non-hazardous0.00–0.04Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration)
Notes:
  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.
  8. In 2024, there was no disposal of D-2527 or D-1504 waste (as these waste types were not generated). In 2023, there was no disposal of D-0901 waste.
  9. The data in this table was collected from waste clearance triple-copy forms and recycling weighbridge slips.
TNP's general industrial waste is primarily sent to public and private treatment facilities for processing or handled according to the "Waste Disposal Act" for resource recovery and reuse. Hazardous industrial waste is transported to the Ministry of Economic Affairs' comprehensive treatment center for industrial waste or qualified first-class public and private waste treatment facilities for processing or handled according to reuse regulations.

本公司所委託的第三方合格清運處理公司設有GPS定位系統，負責執行廢棄物減量與再利用工作，期能實質減少末端廢棄物產出量，提供源頭減量及廢棄物再利用技術之建議，提升廢棄物再利用率。並且本公司會對清除處理廠商依法做現場訪查。截至2024年底，本公司並無發生廢棄物的洩漏事件。

本公司環安衛政策為「遵守法規、綠色生產、污染預防、資源回收、危害預防、持續改善」承諾加強污染源的監控及污染源防治設備之改善，以落實污染預防工作。本公司也積極導入環保型材料，2021年開發完成之PETG、開發中PLA及環保大豆油墨等對環境友善之生產材料，以有效降低營運過程中所產生的碳排放，真正達到綠色製造及減少廢棄物量。

Recycling and Reuse

Raw Material Statistics

Raw Material NameUnitRenewable?202220232024
PVCTonsNon-renewable65,560.4082,306.0886,507.17
PETGTonsNon-renewable14,798.3615,989.199,388.06
ChipsTonsNon-renewable8,690.7010,012.092,559.91
Notes:
  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.
Currently, the company's products do not use recycled materials, and packaging materials cannot be reused as they are shipped with the products to customers via air and sea. Additionally, due to the inclusion of customer personal information on the products, they cannot be recycled and reused.