Cheng Loong Corp, one of the nation’s largest paper manufacturers, was awarded a carbon labeling accreditation certificate by the government yesterday in recognition of its efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions throughout its manufacturing process and supply chain.
The certificate was presented by Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Minister Stephen Shen (沈世宏) in recognition of Cheng Loong’s production and distribution of a paper towel series made of recycled paper.
The certificate was the first of its kind to be awarded by the EPA to any household paper product.
Upon receiving the recognition, Cheng Loong president Tsai Tong-ho (蔡東和) said his company would continue to strive to use resources efficiently and contribute to society with a goal of reducing the firm’s carbon dioxide emissions by 5 percent in three years.
Tsai said Cheng Loong followed the carbon footprint verification norms of the British Standards Institution (BSI) to produce and distribute recycled paper towels.
The company tried to lower its carbon dioxide emissions throughout the entire production and distribution process, involving raw material sourcing, towel manufacturing, transport and waste disposal, Tsai said.
The EPA awarded the carbon labeling accreditation certificate to Cheng Loong after the product passed the BSI’s verification process, Tsai said.
Cheng Loong became voluntary carbon standard certified in 2008 and began selling its voluntary carbon offsets on New York’s over-the-counter market.
In related news, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday called on the public to take action to protect the environment.
Ma made the remarks after cutting a ribbon to open a green forum and expo in Kaohsiung along with Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) and American Institute in Taiwan Taipei Office Director William Stanton.
Ma said climate change has created such real-life situations as severe droughts and severe flooding caused by torrential rain.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater