Marine plastic waste

According to the statistics on plastic trash collected from Taiwan’s beach cleaning activities in 2019, the top three are plastic bottle caps, plastic bottles and straws. According to 2020 International Costal Cleanup Report, the top ten marine wastes are mostly plastic wastes. Having these data quantified, we know that the straws collected from the beach are enough for 322 octopuses to drink eight smoothies a day for a year; and the plastic cutlery is enough to serve a three-course meal to 66,000 sharks. By presenting these quantified data, it is our aspiration that people will see how considerable the amount of plastic trash is waste. Currently, the plastic pollution issue has become even more critical day by day. Although many plastic products claim to be recyclable, not all of them can be well recycled for repeated uses. By taking plastic bottle as an example, although its recycling rate is as high as 95% in Taiwan, about over 280 million bottles failed to be recycled in 2018, causing an excessive burden on the environment.

Therefore, recycling these marine plastic wastes and reproduce them into a recyclable plastic product is our ultimate mission. And effectively and unceasingly reuse plastics will be our permanent goal.

Post-consumer plastic wastes

Following the popularization of resource recycling concept and the increasing international awareness of environmental protection, more environmental protection labels have been created to regulate the use of recycled plastics around the world. Apart from United Nation’s Basel Convention that regulates the export of hazardous plastic wastes, “Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)” was also established to end waste incineration and to promote sustainable waste prevention and management practices. Therefore, in order to stop the increase of plastic trash, it is a must to stop producing and disuse single-use package and to establish a reusable system. All post-consumer plastic wastes in life are within our goal. For example, waste electrical appliance, obsolete computer information products, card reader and some livelihood products. These things are usually thrown away when they are broken and then be buried or burned. To achieve resource sustainability, now we are doing our biggest effort to collect most of these wastes, break them down and then reconstruct them for reuse.

In the future, the percentage of renewable ingredients in a product will become a critical direction for all commodities. Major global brands also successively commit to reach a specific percentage of renewable ingredient when manufacturing their products. Therefore, our core objective is to recycle most of the post-consumer plastic wastes and then reconstruct and regenerate them.