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In 1987, the United Nations proposed the concept of "Sustainable Development" and received great responses from all over the world. The main idea of Sustainable Development is to develop and manufacture products to satisfy the consumers of current generation, while not hurt welfare of the future generations. Eco-efficiency is the core effort to support sustainable development. Therefore, improving resource productivity and minimizing the environmental impact during production has become our focus of the new century.
Everlight became a member of the "Business Council for Sustainable Development of the Republic of China" in 1998. Assisted by this organization, Everlight is the first corporation in Taiwan to set up the Environmental Accounting System. This system provides important eco-efficiency and resource productivity indices for management decision making.
Everlight adopts the concept of eco-efficiency as part of the corporate culture. We will endeavor to continuous improvement and to reach the goals of Cleaner Production and Sustainable Development.
Environmental Protection
Everlight positions itself as a high-tech chemical manufacturer and realizes the reality of limited resources on earth and recognizes the importance of Sustainable Development. As a member of the global community, Everlight environmental policy states Conserve Earth Resources and Conform to Environmental Regulation.
In order to actualize this commitment, Everlight has established the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System which emphasizes on intensive educational program, full participation in process improvement, waste minimization and development of waste treatment technologies. Moreover, Everlight has been certified by DNV and became the first chemical company in Taiwan to have ISO 14001 certification.
A Pioneer in Environmental Accounting
Everlight Chemical was the first Taiwan company to establish an environmental cost system. The company put the system in place between August 1998 and November 1999, and it instituted its first amendment of the system in July-September 2000. The environmental cost accounting system now used was amended at the end of 2002. The foremost objective of Everlight in adopting an environmental accounting system is to conform to Criteria Governing Information to be Published in Annual Reports of Public Companies, which mandates providing environmental protection-related information. The secondary objective is to provide reference information for decision-makers in mapping out corporate strategies and to clearly distinguish environmental costs from ordinary costs. Thirdly, a green accounting system can ultimately help to reduce environmental-related costs and create further benefit for the company.
The focus of an environmental accounting system is in recording, compiling and disclosing a company's environment protection-related costs, activities, budgets, and achievements.
Everlight's environmental accounting system is based primarily on fiscal and management accounting principles. The system reveals environmental costs and effects, and it enables further assessment of such costs and effects as related to environmental activities. The design and content of the system call for clearly categorizing the company's environmental activities, and defining the types and names of these activities (40 types have been set forth preliminarily) and classifying these activities into six categories. At the same time, the company has decided appropriate accounting principles to facilitate the documenting, compiling and displaying of environmental costs. Costs of activities that do not fit into a specific category or that are related to decision-making are evenly shared among the accounts.