The Ocean is Our Home

August 28, 2021
Number of Participants: 52
Removed Waste: 895.8 kg

GIGABYTE held the first beach clean-up activity at the “Pig Nose Beach” after adopting the nearby coastline. GIGABYTEʼs employees and our families and friends worked together and efficiently cleaned up the 500-meter-long beach within in a short time. We also helped remove 15 bags of waste that other groups had not taken away before. Protecting the ocean is responsibility of everyone, regardless of you and me.

March 12, 2022
Number of Participants: 137
Removed Waste: 1,339 kg

The beach clean-up activity also echoed the “Project Blue 1095”. The PET bottles picked from the beach were provided to the appointed unit for use as materials for producing shoes and slippers.

GIGABYTE expects participants to become more aware of the importance of environmental protection by participating in actual protection initiatives. In this activity, some participants brought their children to clean the beach together. In this way, it helped spread the concept of “source reduction” and “proper disposal and recycling” to the younger generation.

March 18, 2023
Number of Participants: 190
Removed Waste: 1,382.3kg

The activity called on 190 participants, including 31 supplier companies and GIGABYTEʼs employees and their families, to clean up the beach and return beautiful sights to the coastline. By sharing experiences on beach adoption, greenhouse gas inventory, and project management with suppliers, GIGABYTE hopes to amplify the sustainable value of its supply chain and collaboratively realize the concept of “Reduction. Sharing. Love the Earth.”

June 3, 2023
Number of Participants: 65
Removed Waste: 1,981.6kg

The Caoluo Sand Dunes in Guanyin District, Taoyuan City, was once selected as one of the “Coastlines Worth Protecting in Taiwan”, and the north shore of Dajue River is located within the Guanyin Caoluo Sand Dunes. This is GIGABYTE holding a beach clean-up for the first time on the north shore of the Dajue River. Perhaps due to the remote location with low reachability, the beach was covered by a lot of garbage. Therefore, the quantity of garbage we cleared on that day broke a record high. After cleaning the beach, we went to the Taoyuan Carbon Life Museum, where we listened to the tour guide, participated in a handmade soap DIY course, and learned plant-related knowledge.

September 16 is “World Cleanup Day”, which aims to call on citizens to clean up the environment, emphasizing taking real action on environmental issues. GIGABYTE, which has long been involved in environmental protection, also called on employees and their families to clean up the beach we adopted. After the beach cleanup, we went to the Guanyin Caolao Sand Dune Exhibition Hall to participate in a tour guide. It explained the surrounding environment, history, the humanities, ecology, and other local stories.

When GIGABYTE saw the amount of marine waste on the Dajue River North Shore in June, we decided to clean the beach again in the second half of 2023. We also visited the Yamaiji Umbrella Cultural and Creative Park as a follow-up to the beach cleanup. The parkʼs building has been recognized as a silver-level green building that adheres to the concepts of ecology, energy saving, carbon reduction, and health.

According to the Taiwan EPA Coastal Clean-up Information Platform, this beach has not been cleaned up for three months. Styrofoam and fishing waste were spread all over the beach. After cleaning up the beach, we visited the Yong’an Conch Cultural Experience Park. The Parkʼs guide introduced us to the early fishing culture such as the Taiwanese Beach Seine and Stone Fish Weir, as well as the important role algae reefs play in protecting the coastal environment of Taoyuan.

March 16, 2024
Number of Participants: 209
Removed Waste: 1,894kg

GIGABYTEʼs “Reduction, Sharing, Love the Earth” Alliance has long called on suppliers to take green actions. The Joint Beach Clean-Up in 2024 was carried out at Shalun section beach in Dayuan, Taoyuan. GIGABYTE has adopted this section of the beach. The participants included 39 suppliers and GIGABYTEʼs employees as well as supervisors. It was a sunny day after days of wind and rain. Our cleaning actions restored the coastline to its original state. Some of our suppliers, who join the activity every year, have become beach-cleaning experts!

May 11, 2024
Number of Participants: 52
Removed Waste: 635kg

The tail end of Pig Nose Beach is hard to reach and thus marine waste accumulating over there is not easy to clean. GIGABYTE calls on employees and their dependents to clean up this place to prevent garbage from flowing into the sea. That day we also found that the waste was much less than before, probably because other units had cleaned up the beach recently. GIGABYTE hopes to continue exerting a positive influence with these like-minded organizations. Also thanks to every participant as well as the local cleaner crews.