Green Environment
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To achieve the goal of sustainable management, an effective risk assessment system must be established to control risks in all aspects with countermeasures implemented to avoid potential threats and risks.
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Environmental Management
In view of the enhanced awareness of environmental protection among the public and the increasingly strict regulations in recent years, the concept of source controlled and pollution prevention and control technologies must be promoted to catch up with international trends and ensure compliance with relevant environmental laws and regulations. In order to fulfill our corporate society responsibility and realize the goal of sustainable operation, CHR introduced the ISO 14001 Environmental Protection System in 2016. We dedicate ourselves to environmental controlled matters and improvement of environmental performance. Air, water, waste, poison, noise, and other factors that may be harmful to the environment and personnel are well monitored and controlled. To provide the Company with consistent implementation guidelines, we established the environmental policies in the hope that we can put them into use on relative matters of the Company. Every department sets annual targets and action plans every year with the spirit of realizing the environmental policies. All proposals with respect to the improvement or upgrade of environmental performance of the Company, production efficiency, and management mechanism are included. The achievement status of the targets will be reviewed on a regular basis.
GHG Emissions
We use the operational control method to collect GHG emissions data according to the “GHG Inventory and Registration Guidance” of the Environmental Protection Administration. The GHG emission in 2022 was 5,791 tCO2e/year, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), without combustion of biofuels. Since we only use electricity from a single energy source, the electricity consumption can cause a direct impact on the intensity of GHG emissions.
Thanks to the implementation of energy conservation and carbon reduction measures during 2021 and 2022 (with 2020 as the base year), the emission intensity in 2022 dropped by 1.8% in comparison with 2020. If the power consumption of overall public and auxiliary facilities remains unchanged, when production quantity decreases and products cannot be produced at full capacity, emission intensity will increase. As a result, the emission intensity in 2022 was 3.4% higher than that in 2021. We aim at decreasing the emission intensity in 2024 by 5% in comparison with 2020 (the base year).
Note 1: In Scope 1, the GWP value provided in IPCC AR6 is used for refrigerants, and the IPCC 2006 factors are used for the others.
Note 2: Scope 2 only covers electricity, using the electricity carbon emission factor announced by the Bureau of Energy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Note 3: Scope 3 (Other Indirect Emissions) is temporarily not included in this Report.
Note 4: The inventory checking principles, calculation methods and emission factors provided by the Environmental Protection Administration in its “GHG Inventory and Registration Guidance” and “GHG Emission Coefficients Management Table, ver. 6.0.4” were used as reference,
Note 5: R22, an item controlled by the Montreal Protocol, is used as the refrigerant for some of the Company's air conditioning equipment. In 2022, we took expert recommendations into consideration and included R22 in the calculation of the total emissions.
Waste Management
Only unrecyclable general industrial waste such as waste rubber mixtures, waste plastic mixtures, damaged wooden pallets, and household garbage as well as recyclable waste paper, waste iron and waste plastics are produced during production of our rubber products. We do not generate hazardous industrial waste. Not only is the waste simple in terms of type and nature, it is also generated in a small quantity. The waste accounting for the largest proportion is drawn from household garbage.
Water Resource Withdrawal
Taiwan is a country lacking water resources due to natural conditions. Especially, the river monitoring data of the Environmental Protection Administration shows increasingly worse river pollution that makes many rivers unusable due to bad water quality, and thus the more deficient water resources. Consequently, groundwater is over-pumped everywhere for a long time and this overdraft brings about a serious problem of land subsidence. We are much concerned about the environmental problem of groundwater overdraft and, thus, only use the tap water that Taiwan Water Corporation provides. The source of the tap water is the Liyutan Reservoir in Miaoli. CHR is located in Changhua Coastal Industrial Park, Changhua County. As the official website of the industrial park shows, the Liyutan Reservoir supplies about 700 million liters (700 thousand tons) of water every day, and 15 million liters (15 thousand tons) are supplied to Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. The average daily water consumption of the industrial park occupies 2% of the daily water supply of the reservoir. CHR’s average daily water consumption in the recent three years takes up 1% of the water supply of Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. The average daily water consumption only takes up 0.02% of the daily water supply of the reservoir. The water intake and the water intake volume have no prominent negative impact on the Liyutan Reservoir and nearby residents.
