The Ocean is Our Home

GIGABYTE cares about the environment. In addition to launching the “Thousand Mile Trek – Go Green Taiwan,” environmental services through a series of round-island trekking, GIGABYTE continues to participate in ocean protection actions together with universities, industry peers, and suppliers in response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals “Goal 14 Life Below Water” and make our best efforts to conserve the ocean. Taking action is the most effective way to gain profound environmental knowledge and recognize the existential crisis marine ecosystems face. Moreover, it could also let more people understand how “reducing waste at the source” and “properly disposing of waste” are essential to environmental protection.

Participants over the Years

Quantity of Removed Waste over the Years

2020 “Reduction. Sharing. Love the Earth” Alliance Joint Beach Clean-Up

August 15, 2020
Number of Participants: 108
Removed Waste: 621.1 kg

GIGABYTE invited supplier members of “Reduction. Sharing. Love the Earth” Alliance, employees, and their families to clean up the Baiyu Beach in Taoyuan jointly. During the activity, participants also learned about different types of marine debris through waste sorting and plastic sieving and thus became more aware of the damaging effects of microplastics on the environment.

2021 “Reduction. Sharing. Love the Earth” Alliance Joint Beach Clean-Up

April 24, 2021
Number of Participants: 110
Removed Waste: 597.5 kg

GIGABYTE called on 100 partners, including supplier members of “Reduction. Sharing. Love the Earth” Alliance and their families and friends, to take part in a joint beach clean-up activity. Together with nearly 300 people from other companies, we cleaned the beach at Badouzi and Chaojing Park in Keeling, and all waste was adequately classified. We hope to do our part to maintain the coastal environment and ecology.

GIGABYTE formally launched “The Ocean is Our Home” project in 2021 based on years of experience in beach clean-ups. It represents our long-term commitment to protecting the ocean. We applied to the competent authority to adopt the Shalun section of Dayuanʼs coastline on a yearly basis. Additionally, GIGABYTE also supported the “Project Blue 1095” program, initiated by the Business Today, which aims to recycle and transform marine trash into the new citizen slippers. We hope that by giving new value to marine trash we can fulfill the ideals of the circular economy. Our passion for environmental service also reminded society to emphasize source reduction and return clean homes for marine life.

1st “The Ocean is Our Home” Beach Clean-Up

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.

2022 “Reduction. Sharing. Love the Earth” Alliance Joint Beach Clean-Up

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.

Corporate Voluntary Beach Clean-Up 2022

November 12, 2022
Number of Participants: 67
Removed Waste: 887.5kg

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.

2023 “Reduction. Sharing. Love the Earth” Alliance Joint Beach Clean-Up

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.”

2023 1st Dajue River North Shore Beach Clean-Up

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.

Corporate Voluntary Beach Clean-Up 2023

September 16, 2023
Number of Participants: 55
Removed Waste: 948.5kg

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.

2023 2nd Dajue River North Shore Beach Clean-Up

November 11, 2023
Number of Participants: 49
Removed Waste: 770.5kg

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.