Far Eastern Group's environmental education train is moving on with several events being carried out to take root.

        This year, Far Eastern Group marks its 70th anniversary. Since July, affiliated enterprise has held a series of public welfare activities in different aspects, in addition to the successful conclusion of "Far Eastern Group children's story", "70th anniversary is filled with love. Far Eastern Group HAPPY GO "and "Far EasTone Telecommunication digital education camp", and "Asia Cement Corporation Eco-Park Tour of phasmid” is heading to different places, the horn of marine education was also blown as well, and modern and cool "Mini TRASHPRESSO" was launched to find a new way for plastic waste.

        

        U-Ming marine transport presented "ocean crisis" board games to inherit awareness of protecting the environment.

        

        

        In recent years, U-Ming marine transport has actively replaced the old with the new and built an environmental-friendly fleet to strive for energy conservation, emission reduction and green ocean. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the group, the board game "ocean crisis" was specially selected and presented to GuanDu Elementary School on October 15, which symbolizes the marine education was taking root.

        

        “Ocean crisis” is the world's first "cooperative game" to explore marine environment. Players will experience the unprecedented "marine waste" catastrophe, and find solutions through recycling, beach cleaning, environmental-friendly products, research and development of green technology. In addition to the main task of dealing with marine waste, the game also provides nearly 10 unique side quests and scripts, including: Dolphin rescue, habitat restoration, tanker grounding and other situations, so that participants can understand the problems marine ecology is encountering, and hope that children can build up awareness of protecting the environment, and then expand the influence, and do their best to protect the ocean.

        

        Public welfare spreads love, children from rural areas were invited to know the ocean

        

        

        With the rising awareness of environmental protection, various marine conservation actions have sprung up, including monitoring and protection of water quality, marine biodiversity maintenance, and marine waste management. Convention on low sulfur oil promoted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will be implemented in 2020, which also declares that the action of ocean conservation is urgent.

        

        U-Ming marine transport specializes in shipping industry, which has an inseparable relationship with the ocean, and is also responsible for marine conservation. On October 19, they specially invited local groups in the remote areas to visit the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology, hoping that children can have a deeper understanding of marine culture, marine science, marine environment, marine engineering and ships through the guidance, and at the same time establish awareness of protecting the environment and marine conservation and guard the ocean that breeds rich life together.

        

        Re-evolution of recycling, Taiwan's first mini Trashpresso in Kaohsiung Far Eastern Department Store

        

        

        Far Eastern Group and Miniwiz worked together to condense the traditional recycling plant that covers an area of one thousand mu into mini Trashpresso, a container sized mobile Green Ark, which was introduced to Taiwan on October this year. After finishing the tour of Far Eastern big city shopping malls, they sailed south into the Far Eastern Department Store in Kaohsiung.

        

        In the launching ceremony on October 31, Gao Meilan, Chief Secretary of the Tourism Bureau of Kaohsiung Municipal government, Guo Jingsheng, committee member of Environmental Protection Bureau, Lin Qingyi, committee member of Civil Affairs Bureau and Nancy Hsu, Far Eastern Department Store President were invited to attend the ceremony. One of the organizers, Chief Executive Officer of FEG Far Eastern Memorial Foundation, Huang Mao said that in 2009, on the 60th anniversary, FEG raised 1.52 million recycled PET bottles to build the Far Eastern Group Ecoark (Taipei Flower Expo EcoArk). On the 70th anniversary in 2019, Far Eastern Group implemented environmental protection actions as mini Trashpresso, and drove the environmental protection education train to Kaohsiung, hoping to provide more opportunities for people in Kaohsiung to implement environmental protection actions.

        

        Mini Trashpresso can collect, crush, heat and shape in five minutes, and in one hour, it can transform 50 kg of waste bottles into valuable products, such as small and delicate flower ware, so as to extend the lifespan of plastic. The exhibition was held until December 20. . If you consume 1000 or more, you can get an environmental friendly renewable flower ware free of charge. Welcome to experience.

        In order to let school children in the remote areas in Kaohsiung participate in the most advanced environmental regeneration experience together, teachers and students of Taoyuan Elementary School were specially invited to attend the launching ceremony of mini Trashpresso. Far Eastern Department Store President Nancy Hsu donated the stationery portfolio to students of Taoyuan Elementary School and encouraged them.

        

        President Nancy Hsu explained that Taoyuan Elementary School in Taoyuan District, Kaohsiung City is located in the necessary station of the South cross road. Since the Morakot wind disaster caused great damage to the environment, there is serious population migration and sub-replacement fertility, high teacher turnover rate indirectly affected the right of schoolchildren to receive education. This year marks the 70^th anniversary of Far Eastern Group, school children of Taoyuan Elementary School were invited to attend teaching activity "Spreading love to the countryside? Making the children better" Kaohsiung Far Eastern Department Store contracted free shuttle bus, expanded school children’s horizon, promoted the importance of environmental protection and recycling, and hoped to let environmental regeneration education take root in the minds since childhood, so as to shorten the gap between urban and rural environmental protection concepts.