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Good Environmental Practices

Air-Conditioners, Freezers, Lightings, 4R – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recreate
Electrical and Office Equipment

The last employee to leave the office should ensure Under the reuse and recreate principle, fish waste is
that all air-conditioners, lightings, electrical and office collected and cleaned to produce fish broth. Fish scales
equipment are switched off. Place notices at the wall are also collected, cleaned, and then sold. Licensed
switch sockets and door exits to remind employees to waste vendors will dispose of extra fish waste. Foam
switch off all appliances after use. An in-house technician boxes are cleaned and reused or sold.
maintains the air-conditioners every six-monthly, or
when air-conditioners are not operating. Freezers are As for recycling, the company has a designated recycling
also monitored to ensure their coldness. point for waste vendors to collect items that can be
recycled, such as paper/cartons boxes. The estimated
recycled paper quantity is 8,000 kg per month. Most
Paper, Plastic Wrappings and Foams plastics are not recyclable due to their hazardous nature
(see Figure 11).
Collection of paper/cartons boxes and plastic wrappings
are conducted at the recycling point. Waste vendors
come to collect these recyclables twice a week. Total
waste generation is around 8,000 kg per month. Foam
boxes are cleaned and reused or sold to customers.

Figure 11: Collection area for recycling materials.

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