◆Environmental policies
Follows the pace of environmental awareness, environmental protection, energy conservation and carbon reduction have become the consensus of the industry and are also basic elements for enterprises to pursue sustainable development. Avertronics has obtained ISO 14001 environmental management system certification, and has also setup environmental policies and implemented them to achieve the goals of saving energy, preventing and reducing environmental pollution, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
◆Greenhouse Gas Verification
The "Greenhouse Gas Inventory Implementation Committee" was established to implement various tasks of greenhouse gas verification and reduction, with a view to reducing direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions year by year. and develop greenhouse gas reduction strategies.
Avertronics's self-validation of Taiwan Head Office 14064-1 in 2021 has not been externally verified. The third-party BSI's verification of 14064-1 for Taiwan Head Office in 2022 and self-validation for year of 2023 are as follows:
| Item | Scope-1: Direct GHG emissions and removals |
Scope-2: Indirect GHG emissions from imported energy |
Scope-3: Indirect GHG emissions from transportation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Carbon Emission (Tons CO2e) |
38.581 | 35.464 | 35.266 | 288.102 | 261.990 | 239.92 | 55.335 | 52.004 | 47.749 |
| Portion (%) | 10.10% | 10.15% | 10.92% | 75.42% | 74.97% | 74.29% | 14.48% | 14.88% | 13.67% |
| Total (Tons CO2e) |
2023：322.635 (CO2e) | ||||||||
| 2022：349.458 (CO2e) | |||||||||
| 2021：382.018 (CO2e) | |||||||||
◆Water Resources Management
We continue to promote the concept of "water saving" to our employees to achieve the purpose of saving water. The statistics of water resources management in the past two years are as follows:
| Year | 2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
| Water Usage (m³) | 3,507 | 3,261 | 3,738 |
◆Waste Managemet
Avertronics committed to environmental protection. Industrial waste generated during the manufacturing process is collected, classified and temporarily stored in a waste storage area, afterwards cleanup by the Environmental Protection Agency for processing. Waste in the factory is stored and cleaned regularly comply with storage regulations.
