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 Composition | Hazardous/ Non-hazardous | Off-site | |||
| Item | 2023 | 2024 | |||
| Generation (tons) | Intermediate Disposal Method | Generation (tons) | Intermediate Disposal Method | ||
| D-0803 Waste Cloth | Non-hazardous | 1.19 | Incineration | 1.37 | Incineration |
| D-2405 Waste Ink | Non-hazardous | 1.56 | Incineration | 0.48 | Incineration |
| D-0299 Waste Plastic Mixture | Non-hazardous | 29.62 | Incineration | 22.57 | Incineration |
| R-2408 Waste Activated Carbon | Non-hazardous | 7.01 | Recycling | 8.31 | Recycling |
| C-0107 Waste Developer Solution | Hazardous | 3.95 | Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration) | 6.7 | Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration) |
| C-0108 Waste Fixing Solution | Hazardous | 0.98 | Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration) | 0.87 | Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration) |
| D-2299 Waste Film | Non-hazardous | 0.59 | Physical treatment | 0.01 | Physical treatment |
| D-2623 Waste Chips | Non-hazardous | 0.11 | Physical treatment | 0.2 | Physical treatment |
| D-2527 Waste Mixed Metal Scrap | Non-hazardous | 0.16 | Physical treatment | 0.00 | – |
| D-0202 Waste Resin | Non-hazardous | 0.28 | Incineration | 0.22 | Incineration |
| D-1504 Waste Liquid | Non-hazardous | 5.15 | Incineration | 0.00 | – |
| D-0901 Organic Sludge | Non-hazardous | 0.00 | – | 0.04 | Thermal Treatment (excluding incineration) |
Notes:
- Waste composition can be filled out with reference to the "Waste Disposal Plan" classification (A/B/C/D/E/R, etc.).
- Waste weight is measured in tons.
- Types of recycling operations: such as preparation for reuse, recycling, and other recovery operations.
- Types of recycling: such as downcycling, upcycling, composting, or anaerobic digestion.
- Other recovery operations: such as repurposing or refurbishing.
- Types of intermediate disposal methods include incineration (with or without energy recovery), thermal treatment, and physical treatment.
- "Off-site" refers to outside the physical boundary or administrative control of the reporting organization.
- 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.
- 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.
Our contracted third-party qualified waste disposal companies are equipped with GPS tracking systems and are responsible for implementing waste reduction and recycling measures. Our goal is to significantly reduce the amount of waste generated at the final stage, offer recommendations for source reduction and waste reuse technologies, and ultimately increase the waste recycling and reuse rate. Additionally, the Company conducts on-site inspections of waste disposal vendors in accordance with the law. As of the end of 2024, there have been no incidents of waste leakage at TNP.
TNP's environmental safety and health policy is committed to "complying with regulations, green production, pollution prevention, resource recycling, hazard prevention, and continuous improvement." The company is committed to strengthening pollution source monitoring and improving pollution control equipment to implement pollution prevention. The Company is also actively adopting eco-friendly materials. In 2021, we completed the development of PETG and are developing PLA and eco-friendly soy-based inks. These environmentally friendly production materials effectively reduce carbon emissions generated during operations, allowing us to truly achieve green manufacturing and reduce waste volume.
Our contracted third-party qualified waste disposal companies are equipped with GPS tracking systems and are responsible for implementing waste reduction and recycling measures. Our goal is to significantly reduce the amount of waste generated at the final stage, offer recommendations for source reduction and waste reuse technologies, and ultimately increase the waste recycling and reuse rate. Additionally, the Company conducts on-site inspections of waste disposal vendors in accordance with the law. As of the end of 2024, there have been no incidents of waste leakage at TNP.
TNP's environmental safety and health policy is committed to "complying with regulations, green production, pollution prevention, resource recycling, hazard prevention, and continuous improvement." The company is committed to strengthening pollution source monitoring and improving pollution control equipment to implement pollution prevention. The Company is also actively adopting eco-friendly materials. In 2021, we completed the development of PETG and are developing PLA and eco-friendly soy-based inks. These environmentally friendly production materials effectively reduce carbon emissions generated during operations, allowing us to truly achieve green manufacturing and reduce waste volume.
Recycling and Reuse
Raw Material Statistics
| Raw Material Name | Unit | Renewable | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PVC | Tons | Non-renewable | 65,560.40 | 82,306.08 | 86,507.17 |
| PETG | Tons | Non-renewable | 14,798.36 | 15,989.19 | 9,388.06 |
| Chips | Tons | Non-renewable | 8,690.70 | 10,012.09 | 2,559.91 |
Notes:
- Material types include raw natural resources like ores, iron, wood, plastic pellets; lubricants for machinery, semifinished parts or components; packaging materials also count.
- 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.
- 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.