Environmental Sustainability
Plastic recycling
According to the report of the United Nations, only 6% of the approximately 9 billion tons of plastic manufactured around the world has been recycled. Most plastic waste is incinerated, buried, or disposed of, severely impacting the natural environment. Approximately 10-20 million tons of plastic waste flows into the ocean every year. If it is not put under control, the amount of plastic waste in the ocean will be as heavy as all fish by 2050, causing an ecological catastrophe.
To fulfill its corporate social responsibility and create an excellent living environment, FPG reduces plastic from the source, setting out from the perspective of circular economy and actively implementing plastic recycling and reuse to achieve the goal of plastic reduction.
Waste plastic recycling and reuse
Plastic bottles and fishing nets are the two main sources of plastic waste around the world. Nan Ya Plastics Corporation and Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corporation have been actively developing plastic bottles and fishing nets (oyster ropes) recycling and re-production technologies over the years, transforming a large amount of waste into recycled products:
Waste plastic bottle recycling and reuse
It takes 450 years to degrade plastic bottles in the natural environment. Combined with the massive amount of plastic bottles, it has a high impact on the environment. Nan Ya Plastics Corporation has the technology to transform waste plastic bottles into polyester chips and polyester filament, which can be used to produce clothing, containers, and film products. Products that are recycled and re-produced generate significantly less carbon emissions compared to virgin products.
Nan Ya Plastics Corporation processed approximately 6.3 billion waste plastic bottles in 2025, which is able to reduce carbon emissions by 137 thousand tons/year, approximately 350 times the carbon absorption of Da'an Forest Park.
Total products recycled in 2025
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Equal to approximately 6.3 billion plastic bottles, which is enough to circle the planet 108 times
Reduction of CO2 emissions in 2025
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Equivalent of approximately 350 times the carbon absorption of Da'an Forest Park
Recycling of other waste plastic
Companies strive to develop waste recycling and reuse technologies to recycle and reuse resources and achieve zero waste, for example:
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Corporation
Waste
Recycling and reuse
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Formosa Plastics Corporation
Diapers
Jointly developed a new "recyclable diaper" with a diaper manufacturer (Fuburg). Recyclables are divided into pulp, plastic, and SAP, and made into industrial paper, plastic products, and solid fuel.
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Formosa Plastics Corporation
Milk Bottle
Recycled materials are mixed and made into compounds using proprietary technology for downstream suppliers to process into materials for making detergent containers, fully reusing waste plastic.
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Formosa Plastics Corporation
PP Woven Bag
After woven bags are recycled, they are made into compounds using proprietary technology for vendors to process into woven bags, forming a recycling and reuse system.
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Nan Ya Plastics Corporation
Waste Clothing
Current recycling technologies can transform polyester greige fabrics, finished fabric, leftover bits and pieces, and old clothing into recycled polyester filament, forming a textile recycling chain.
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Nan Ya Plastics Corporation
Industrial Release Film
After recycling used release film, ceramic slurry is removed, and then it is made into recycled polyester chips, which is used as raw materials for making polyester fabric and electronics products.
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Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corporation
Home Appliances, Electronics Products
After waste home appliances and electronics products are recycled, they are made into compounds using proprietary technology for vendors to process into new home appliances and electronics products, forming a recycling and reuse system.
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Formosa Petrochemical Corporation
Mixed Plastics
Currently developing chemical recycling technology for waste plastics, transforming low quality waste plastic with many impurities that are hard to separate and recycle into oil products and petrochemical materials. Besides resolving the difficulty with recycling mixed waste plastics, it also reduces carbon emissions.
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Formosa Biomedical Technology Corporation
HDPE Detergent Container
Recycled plastic containers are processed into pellets for detergent containers, reducing the use of plastic and creating a circular economy.