Waste management

Management Policy

Reason for the Issue's Importance

The Company generates hazardous industrial waste and general industrial waste within its plants. As environmental regulations on waste management become increasingly stringent, the Company entrusts qualified firms with waste transportation and disposal. In accordance with regulatory requirements, the Company also conducts visits to designated waste disposal contractors to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, demonstrating that the Company considers waste a material issue.

Impact

  • 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.
  • People/Human Rights Potential Negative Impact: Hazardous waste leaks can endanger stakeholder health.
  • People/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 equipment to effectively implement pollution prevention measures.

Goals and Targets

Short-term Goals

  1. Accelerating green procurement by implementing environmentally friendly production methods, such as adopting PETG eco-friendly materials and environmentally friendly inks.
  2. Monitor the energy consumption of more energy-intensive equipment. Once monitoring is complete, we will prioritize improving or replacing the most energy-consuming equipment. We have already improved the lamination machine(s) and plan to replace air compressors to achieve energy-saving and carbon reduction effects.

Mid-term Goals

  1. Purchase plate-free printers to reduce waste from printed plates and printing films.
  2. Reduce waste by 1% in 2026 compared to 2025.

Long-term Goals

  1. Plan to minimize waste volume, thereby decreasing waste disposal, in line with our industrial waste reduction plan.
  2. Plan to reconstruct old factory buildings using environmentally friendly materials. The green factories are expected to include energy storage equipment and solar panels, enabling the Company to partially use more green energy to reduce reliance on externally purchased electricity and lower carbon emissions.
  3. Gradually replace PVC cards with PETG cards to achieve carbon neutrality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Management Evaluation Mechanism

  • In accordance with regulatory requirements, visits to designated waste disposal contractors are conducted at least once a year.
  • 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 2024, the waste recycling rate in 2025 differed by 5.87%. ▪ Aim to replace conventional printing inks with soy-based eco-friendly inks to reduce environmental pollution. In 2025, 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 Statistics Table 
Waste CompositionHazardous/ Non-hazardousOff-site
Item2023年2024年2025年　
Generation (tons)Generation (tons)Generation (tons)Intermediate Disposal Method
D-0803 Waste ClothNon-hazardous1.191.370.64Incineration
D-2405 Waste InkNon-hazardous1.560.481.97Incineration
D-0299 Waste Plastic MixtureNon-hazardous29.6222.5717.77Incineration
R-2408 Waste Activated CarbonNon-hazardous7.018.316.86Recycling
C-0107 Waste Developer SolutionHazardous3.956.77.78Thermal treatment
(excluding incineration)
C-0108 Waste Fixing SolutionHazardous0.980.871.09Thermal treatment
(excluding incineration)
D-2299 Waste FilmNon-hazardous0.590.010.15Physical treatment
D-2623 Waste ChipsNon-hazardous0.110.20.1Physical treatment
D-2527 Waste Mixed Metal ScrapNon-hazardous0.1600.59Physical treatment
D-0202 Waste ResinNon-hazardous0.280.220.22Incineration
D-1504 Waste LiquidNon-hazardous5.1500Incineration
D-0901 Organic SludgeNon-hazardous00.040Thermal treatment
(excluding incineration)
Total50.640.7737.17–
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 weights are all in metric 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 reporting organization’s physical boundary or administrative control, where no on-site treatment is performed.
  8. In 2025, there was no disposal of D-1504 or D-0901 waste; 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.

The third-party qualified transport and disposal company commissioned by TNP has a GPS system and is responsible for waste reduction and recycling. Its aims are to significantly reduce terminal waste output, provide recommendations for source reduction and waste recycling technologies, and improve waste recycling rates. Additionally, the Company conducts on-site inspections of waste disposal vendors in accordance with the law. As of the end of 2025, 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 NameUnitRenewable2023年2024年2025年
PVCTonsNon-renewable82,306.0886,507.1757,350.48
PETGTonsNon-renewable15,989.199,388.0610,300.76
ChipsTonsNon-renewable10,012.092,559.9116,566.11
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.