Sustainability and Environmental Protection
Environmental expenditures
All Everlight’s factory plants (Shulin, Yuanli, Tongluo, Suzhou and Zhongshan) are located in industrial parks. They all meet the conditions of environmental impact assessment and are not in ecological reserves or protected habitats. The Company’s activities, products and services present no major impacts to biodiversity, ecological reserves or habitats. The surrounding environment also has no species listed in the IUCN Red List or the list of endangered and protected species. Establishment of the plants did not significantly affect the area of the water body and related habitat, and Everlight has never received any complaints concerning impact on the ecological area or material negative impact on the local community. In 2019, no leakage or severe violation of environmental regulations was found in all plants.
Everlight invests in resources of environmental protection equipment, pollution disposition expenses, environmental protection management system and environmental protection education training for related personnel. The company has also made and environmental expenditure of NTD20,190 thousand in order to reach the goals of abiding by environmental protection regulations, reducing environmental pollution, and sustainable environmental management.
Environmental protection expenditures for Everlight in the past three years
Energy and Emissions Management
Everlight’s factory plants mainly use non-renewable energy including electricity, gasoline, diesel and natural gas. Every plant is committed to improving the energy efficiency of production and continues to promote energy conservation and reduction of carbon emissions. Based on the goals of corporate social responsibility and sustainability of green manufacturing, every factory plant passes ISO 14001 certification. The establishment of our management policy and measures provide a framework for the Company to optimize its energy efficiency without affecting its current operations. The framework is closely linked to the corporate strategy and objectives, combined with PDCA methodology, to perform continuous improvement of the Company’s energy use. The reduction in energy costs also has led to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, which in turn achieves sustainable management and environmental friendliness.
Everlight re-examined its use of electricity and other energy sources, and made a series of improvement measures. In addition to the existing energy-conservation equipment for power management such as chiller unit air conditioners, LED lighting fixtures, etc., adopting the zonal management of the air conditioning and lighting settings of the public space, and also implementing improvement measures for the air conditioning system by initially setting the temperature during daytime at a higher setting has already achieved energy conservation.
Energy consumption for all plants in 2019
In terms of managing of greenhouse gas emissions, the source of greenhouse gas emissions from the location controlling Everlight’s operations primarily comes from the use of gasoline of company vehicles and electricity. Everlight divides greenhouse gas emissions into direct (Scope 1) and indirect (Scope 2) emissions. The direct emissions include process energy such as gasoline, diesel and natural gas. The indirect emissions are mainly purchased electricity. In this report, we do not include Scope 3 and fugitive emissions. We only consider the general energy emissions and calculate the emissions of Scope 1 and 2 based on the 6.0.3 version of greenhouse gas emission factor management table provided by the Environmental Protection Administration. The strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is based on office electricity conservation measures. In 2019, Everlight’s total carbon emission was approximately 106,489 metric tons of CO2e.The total emission of greenhouse gas was reduced by 4.6% from 2018.
Energy saving and carbon reduction measures
Everlight has been promoting energy saving and carbon reduction. Based on the goal of CSR and green production and sustainable operation, all plants received ISO 14001 environmental management system certification. The main purpose is to provide the company with a structure of necessary procedure through the establishment of management guidelines and methods, which allows the company to comply with and reach the best energy usage efficiency without affecting the current operation. Everlight combines the operation strategy with the goal along with Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA) mechanism to consistently improve energy utilization. The company may further achieve the goal of sustainable operation and eco-friendly through reducing energy costs and GHG emission.
In 2019, we saved a total of 1,048,820 kWh of energy, reduced our carbon emissions by about 610 metric tons and a total cost savings of about NTD3,146 thousand. We will continue to promote energy-saving and carbon reduction measures. The results and performance of every facility in 2019 are shown in the table below.
Promotion of 2019 energy saving and carbon reduction improvement program
Water resources application
In response to the extreme climate changes, the development and distribution of water resources has been a critical issue for countries around the world. Thus, water resources management, water saving, and emergency response for water shortage become a critical part in the risk management for climate change and disaster adaption for corporations. In view of water resources application, Everlight recycles and reuses the water in the production process in manufacturing plants, which allows the water resources may be properly used efficiently. The company also conducts regular internal inspection, review and evaluation, and then it will fix and adjust current facilities and equipment based on the evaluation result. The company will then reevaluate the improvement in order to achieve the ultimate goal of saving water resources. In 2019, the total water consumption of Everlight was 893,789 tons, a decrease of 10.13% compared to 2018.
In addition, Everlight also conducts promotion on saving water to employees. The water saving efficiency was improved by the change of water consumption behaviors. The amount of water intake for all plants did not cause material impact on local water sources. The water intake sources and the total water consumption/wastewater amount of all plants are shown in the following table:
Water intake sources and emission Locations of all plants
Total water consumption/wastewater amount of all plants of Everlight in the last three years
Water saving measures and water recycle rate
In response to water shortage and climate changes, Everlight continues to promote water saving measures with every effort. In addition to improving facilities and equipment, the company also encourages employees to change the water consumption behaviors to improve water saving efficiency. Our water saving measures in 2019 were estimated to save about a total of 20,354 metric tons in water resources.
2019 water conservation measures and estimated savings
The amount of water recycled for all plants in 2019
Pollution prevention
For the pursuit of sustainable operation, the company improves production processes and recycles resources to reduce costs and pollution in order to achieve the win-win goal of reducing environmental pollution and effective utilization of resources. There is no import or export of waste materials. Plants focus on the environmental protection awareness. The main principle of supply chain management is to recycle or reuse resources that may be recycled or reused, and wastes are disposed based on their natures. Vendors handling waste disposal are qualified vendors, and the company conduct irregular audit on vendors handling waste disposal in order to enhance monitor and management on vendors. In 2019, the total waste amount for all plants of Everlight was 1,596.2 tons and the recycling rate was 19.2%.
In terms of paper management, the company continued to strengthen its education on reducing unnecessary printing .If a document must be printed, it should be printed on both sides to reduce the amount of paper used by the company. In addition, each multi-function printer of Everlight has a card ID scanner added to it. Colleagues must certify their identity using their ID cards to obtain reports or materials. Not only does it reduce the use of paper, it also helps to remind employees of the importance of conserving paper. The company will continue to announce reminders to colleagues to save, and fully implement requirements of colleagues to print double-sided documents and re-use single-sided recycled paper.
Disposal methods for industrial wastes
