Social Engagement

ECOVE regards social engagement as an important dimension of corporate sustainability, believing that corporate value is reflected not only in operating performance but also in positive social impact. As a responsible corporate citizen, the Company integrates social responsibility into its business strategy and advances corporate development in parallel with social co-prosperity. The Company has long focused on local social needs and promotes three major pillars: "community activities linked to operations," "long-term community building," and "corporate volunteerism for friendly co-prosperity." Through action plans that integrate operational expertise, ECOVE deepens cooperative relationships with communities and expands its positive corporate impact.

In terms of employee participation, ECOVE encourages employees to engage in volunteer services and public welfare activities, and has established an institutionalized volunteer participation mechanism to support employee care for local communities and disadvantaged groups. Through volunteer participation and social contribution initiatives, the Company not only enhances employees' identification with the corporate mission, but also strengthens organizational cohesion and the warmth of its corporate culture.

In 2025, ECOVE continued to devote itself to public welfare initiatives and care for disadvantaged local groups. Throughout the year, a cumulative total of 1,977 participants took part in volunteer activities, contributing 4,070 hours. Through concrete actions, ECOVE fulfilled its responsibility as a corporate citizen. We will continue to deepen social engagement, use corporate capabilities to promote social co-prosperity, and work together to create a warmer and more sustainable future.
 

Community Activities Linked to Operations

ECOVE integrates its professional expertise with social engagement, deeply aligning environmental education with operational practices and continuously promoting diverse, impactful sustainability actions. Through participation in the "Discover Taiwan 120h" international exchange program, the establishment of environmental education facilities, and the "One Plant, One Footprint: Sustainable Environmental Education Tour" project, ECOVE transforms professional knowledge on incineration treatment, resource
circulation, and energy recovery into systematic and experiential learning content. These eorts deepen the understanding and action capabilities of university students, community residents, and schoolchildren regarding environmental issues. Through institutionalized curriculum design, professional instructor training, and cross-unit collaboration, the Company expands both the coverage and depth of environmental education, strengthens connections among industry, communities, and the education system, and fulfills its responsibilities and commitments in promoting the circular economy and sustainable development.

ECOVE has established Purple Crow Butterfly environmental education zones at various plants to promote knowledge related to Purple Crow Butterfly habitats, migration, and conservation. The Company also invited the Taiwan Purple Crow Butterfly Ecological Preservation Association to serve as lecturers for Purple Crow Butterfly ecology seminars. In 2025, the seminars attracted approximately 230 participants. ECOVE's collaboration with the Association further extended to the Flying Cow Ranch, where local site resources were integrated to organize an environmental education seed-teacher training workshop, cultivating 21 seed teachers with ecological interpretation capabilities. Beyond educational outreach, ECOVE also participated in Purple Crow Butterfly tagging activities at the Maolin National Scenic Area in Kaohsiung and butterfly-friendly plant surveys at the Zhunan Wetland. A total of 918 Purple Crow Butterflies were tagged during the year. Through on-site participation, ECOVE deepened its understanding of the butterflies' migration process and habitat needs, while supporting the Association's related research work.
 

"Discover Taiwan 120h"

"Discover Taiwan 120h" is an international program jointly organized by the CTCI Education Foundation (CTCIEF) and the Center for Corporate Sustainability (CCS), incorporating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each year, the program specially arranges for undergraduate and graduate students from domestic universities, including both local and international students, to form teams and visit benchmark enterprises in Taiwan.

In 2025, the Miaoli plant was selected as a designated visit site, marking the eighth consecutive time that it has been chosen since the launch of the program. Through themed exhibition spaces and various multimedia functions, the site connects incinerator operations with related environmental protection concepts to create a "Green Dream Factory." Guided by ECOVE employees, participants learned practical knowledge such as waste sorting, waste incineration treatment, air pollution prevention technologies, and heat recovery power generation, thereby enhancing their environmental protection knowledge and values and taking root in sustainability concepts.
 

Environmental Education Facilities: Empowering a Green Future

ECOVE has long been committed to environmental education. By closely integrating professional expertise from its core business with local resources, the Company promotes a sustainable development model that combines resource circulation, environmental protection, and community coexistence. We firmly believe that environmental education should not be limited to knowledge transfer; it should also be embedded in industrial practice, using real cases to help students and the public understand the critical value of environmental protection, strengthen public participation, and expand impact. Therefore, ECOVE actively invests in the certification of environmental education facilities, transforming incineration plants into multifunctional environmental learning bases that integrate education, research, conservation, culture, and recreation. Based on the process characteristics, geographic conditions, and cultural context of each plant, we tailor diverse environmental education courses so visitors can not only gain in-depth understanding of waste treatment and resource reuse operations, but also experience the practice of the circular economy through interactive activities.

Through this integration with operations, ECOVE not only optimizes its environmental protection technologies and resource management eciency, but also deepens cooperation with communities, expands the influence of environmental education, and ultimately realizes the sustainable vision of co-prosperity among the enterprise, society, and the environment.
 

ECOVE has currently obtained environmental education facility certification for five sites. By integrating environmental education facilities with its core business, ECOVE diversifies environmental education and transforms technical, difficult-to-understand environmental knowledge into engaging experiential courses that promote environmental protection knowledge and skills. Employees apply their professional strengths in various fields, such as using the green life cycle as a theme, applying technology to realize green supply chains and product carbon footprints, and leveraging the core industrial value of ecology, production, and living resources. Through environmental education facility certification, ECOVE helps reshape everyone's environmental education DNA. Each site has its own distinctive teaching system and mission for passing on environmental protection values. Going forward, ECOVE will continue to develop new environmental education courses, providing neighborhoods and communities with more interesting and locally distinctive environmental education services.

ECOVE's environmental education facilities have 13 employees who have been trained and certified as "Environmental Education Personnel" by the National Environmental Research Academy under the Ministry of Environment. These employees serve as instructors, providing the public with professional environmental education lectures and guided tours, as well as rich interactive experiences. In 2025, ECOVE provided 274 environmental education services, reaching 12,064 participants.
 

One Plant, One Footprint: Sustainable Environmental Education Tour

Environmental education is not only about transferring knowledge; it is also about cultivating values and the ability to take action. To help the next generation understand the relationship between people and nature, as well as the relationship between people, society, and the economic environment, and to nurture proper environmental values and sustainable lifestyles from an early age, ECOVE has worked with the CTCI Education Foundation for eight consecutive years to promote the "One Plant, One Footprint: Sustainable Environmental Education Tour" project. Through edutainment, children learn through experience and grow through practice.

The project uses ECOVE's core businesses, including waste-to-energy centers, recycling  and reuse, water, and reclaimed water, as core teaching materials. It continuously deepens its content, designs age-appropriate learning for dierent age groups, and incorporates the SDGs, along with hands-on environmental activities such as recycled paper fans and seed reuse crafts. These activities allow children to participate directly and build environmental awareness through practice. In 2025, the "One Plant, One Footprint: Sustainable Environmental Education Tour" entered the fourth year of its second phase. Working with the Taitung County Environmental Protection Bureau, ECOVE aimed to broaden the horizons of students in eastern Taiwan and developed two sets of teaching materials: "Run Toward a Professional Baseball Dream: Open Your Baseball Adventure Map" and "Explore the Engineering Secrets in Everyday Life." These materials introduced students to career types in the baseball industry and engineering and construction. ECOVE also brought environmental education to the Asia-Pacific Sustainability Expo, where it introduced Purple Crow Butterfly ecology to the public and attracted a full audience.

A total of 23 activities were held this year, with 2,462 teachers and students participating. The project reached across Taiwan, from Changxing Elementary School in Keelung in the north to Gangshan Elementary School in Kaohsiung in the south, as well as Zhonghe Elementary School in a remote area of Changhua, enabling children with fewer resources to access comprehensive environmental education. ECOVE believes that the impact of environmental education should not remain only in the classroom; it should begin with children, gradually influence families, extend to communities, and ultimately encourage society as a whole to place greater importance on environmental protection. Going forward, we will continue to promote this project, giving more children the opportunity to access environmental education and incorporate environmental awareness into daily life, working together toward a cleaner and more sustainable future.

In addition, ECOVE participated in the 4th Asia-Pacific Sustainability Expo organized by the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy in 2025. On September 13, during "Sustainable Family Day," ECOVE invited Chairman Chen Rui-Hsiang of the Taiwan Purple Crow Butterfly Ecological Preservation Association to give a talk titled "Becoming Fairy Friends of the Purple Crow Butterfly," introducing Purple Crow Butterfly conservation actions, habitat maintenance concepts, and picture-book stories. The lively on-site interaction demonstrated ECOVE's concrete achievements in deepening social communication through cross-sector collaboration and promoting biodiversity education from the ground up.
 

Social Benefits of the "One Plant, One Footprint: Sustainable Environmental Education Tour" Project

Long-term Community Building

In the past, environmental protection facilities were often regarded as "NIMBY facilities" because residents had concerns about potential environmental and health risks. With long-term and systematic pollution prevention, energy conservation, and carbon reduction as
its core, ECOVE continues to reduce the environmental burden and impact of its operations. At the same time, the Company proactively deepens connections with communities, from environmental improvements to participation in local activities, transforming wasteto-
energy centers from mere waste treatment sites into friendly spaces that local communities can understand, access, and jointly participate in.

In addition, building on its corporate volunteer culture, ECOVE encourages employees to practice the idea of "making full use of resources and creating a virtuous cycle" in community care and environmental education through annual material donation
campaigns and other initiatives. To further expand its impact, ECOVE continues to encourage employees to develop sustainability innovation proposals rooted in their professional work, and actively participates in the Group's ESG Award - "Sustainable Excellence Impact Award." In 2025, two proposals won awards, including "Giving Dreams Wings: Opening an Engineering Vision for Children in Taitung," which combined circular economy concepts with social impact and demonstrated concrete results in creatively connecting with communities and spreading sustainability value. Going forward, ECOVE will continue to use the employee proposal mechanism as a driving force to deepen community participation and promote more replicable and scalable sustainability actions.
 

Building Good Neighborly Relations and Integrating into Communities

Guided by the philosophy of "local co-prosperity," ECOVE actively invests in and supports cultural development and environmental education in communities across Taiwan. Through ongoing and deepened exchanges and cooperation, ECOVE is committed to promoting environmental protection, cultural inheritance, and community cohesion, working hand in hand with local partners to advance sustainable development.

Deepening Local Culture: Long-term Participation in the Jiushe Cultural Festival

In the Jiushe community of Taichung City, the Houli Plant has co-organized the "Jiushe Cultural Festival" for 22 consecutive years. The event combines local traditional culture with modern environmental protection concepts, providing a platform for both exchange and cultural inheritance. Through participation, community residents not only gain a deeper understanding of local culture and art, but also subtly enhance their environmental awareness and strengthen community cohesion and identity.
 

Environmental Education Integrated with Community Characteristics

Based on local characteristics, ECOVE's plants work with community associations to bring environmental protection concepts into daily life, creating an education model that emphasizes both knowledge transfer and practical action. For example, leveraging the abundant natural resources in the area, the Tainan Plant signed an environmental
education cooperation memorandum with the Chengxi Community Development Association in Annan District, Tainan City. Professional environmental education instructors were invited to deliver courses focusing on resource and waste reuse. Through hands-on teaching, participants used simple tools and everyday waste materials to create artworks, inspiring creativity and environmental awareness. In 2025, the Tainan Plant also supported Chia Nan University of Pharmacy & Science in organizing a seminar for its University Social Responsibility project, "Sustainable Annan: Coexistence and Development of Ecological Communities, Environmental Education, and Green Industries." During the seminar, ECOVE shared its concrete practices in community co-creation, environmental education, and circular practices, expanding its local sustainability impact.

In addition to integrating environmental education courses with field visits to the Wennai and Mingde communities to introduce local industries and ecological environments, the Miaoli Plant has long participated in the local government's "2025 Sustainable MIAOLI
Environmental Education Green Life ING" event. It also supported the CTCI Education Foundation's "Little Engineer Camp," visiting the nearby Zhunan Wetland to learn about the local ecological environment of Purple Crow Butterflies.
 

Participating in Local Actions: Co-creating Diverse Cultures and Sustainable Living

ECOVE has long supported and participated in cultural and ecological activities in various communities, encouraging employees to actively engage with their families, demonstrating the company's top-down commitment to sustainable participation:

• Taipei : Co-organized the "Autumn Land Art Festival" with the Taipei Most Beautiful Rivers Cultural Promotion Association to enhance public attention to urban river ecology.
• Miaoli:Promoted community greening and beautification with the Miaoli County Haikou Community Development Association, and jointly organized a plant sponsorship activity with the Environmental Protection Bureau, providing 300 potted sweet osmanthus seedlings to support community environmental beautification.
• Southern Taiwan: The Tainan Plant participated in the Chengxi Community Mother's Day event to promote environmental education.
• Science Park: The Tainan Science Park team participated in the Southern Taiwan Science Park Bureau's "2025 Sports in STSP" event, promoting healthy living and cohesion within the park.

These activities showcase the diverse exchanges between ECOVE and the community, allowing employees to deepen their understanding of environmental and cultural issues through participation. 

Protecting the Community Environment, Good Neighbors locally

ECOVE is not only committed to promoting the circular economy, but also actively maintains the environmental quality of its plants and surrounding communities, fulfills its corporate social responsibility, and serves as a trusted partner to local communities. Through long-term concrete actions to protect the local living environment, related initiatives include:
 

Daily environmental maintenance

Each business site has long spared no eort in maintaining the plant area and surrounding environment, conducting regular and ad hoc road washing and sweeping, restoring lawns, and reusing waste materials as installation art.
 

Beach cleaning, forest cleaning, and green space adoption initiatives

For operating sites located near coastlines and woodlands, such as the Taipei headquarters, Keelung Energy-from- Waste Center, Biomass Energy Center, Miaoli Energy-from-Waste Center, Tainan Science Park Energy-from-Waste Center, and Taitung Energy-from-Waste Center, ECOVE has long promoted beach cleanup activities. Although a single cleanup cannot eradicate marine and woodland waste, these actions have successfully raised employees' awareness of environmental issues and encouraged their participation, further embedding plastic reduction and plastic-free practices into daily life. In 2025, ECOVE invested a total of 799.5 community service hours, organized nine beach/forest cleanup activities, and collected 979.09 kilograms of waste.
 

Caring for local biodiversity

ECOVE continues to deepen its commitment to biodiversity. In addition to environmental cleanups, the Company actively invests in species conservation and ecological education, incorporating nature conservation into its corporate sustainability strategy. Since 2018, the Tainan plant has maintained longterm cooperation with Taijiang National Park to assist with trac control and protection during the July-to- September breeding season of land crabs. Since 2020, ECOVE has participated for five consecutive years in the Tamsui River Convention initiative advocated by CommonWealth Magazine, taking part in handson environmental actions along the Tamsui River. In 2025, in conjunction with the Guandu Art Festival, ECOVE promoted the "Protecting Wetlands with One Heart" initiative at Guandu Nature Park, advocating the concepts of aquatic ecological conservation, coexistence, and shared prosperity.

In addition, for the indicator species that ECOVE focuses on--the Purple Crow Butterfly--the Company has leveraged its environmental education expertise to plan and promote a diverse series of actions. First, ECOVE added a Purple Crow Butterfly ecology seminar to the "CTCI Talks" series at the SDG Asia Exhibition, inviting the Taiwan Purple Crow Butterfly Ecological Preservation Association to serve as the lecturer. At the same time, ECOVE established Purple Crow Butterfly environmental education zones at various plants to systematically promote knowledge of habitat use and migration routes. To cultivate professionally capable environmental education guides and tagging personnel, ECOVE also organized a tagging and environmental education seed-teacher training workshop, strengthening its internal outreach capacity.

Beyond educational outreach, ECOVE has also followed the migratory characteristics of the Purple Crow Butterfly and worked with the Group to introduce nectar plants at plants near butterfly migration corridors, including Keelung, Houli, Xizhou, and Taitung, with a cumulative planting area of 85 square meters. Among these sites, the Keelung Plant and Taitung Plant successfully attracted Purple Crow Butterflies to stop over, demonstrating the eectiveness of habitat creation. ECOVE also personally participated in Purple Crow Butterfly tagging activities in Maolin and butterfly-friendly plant surveys at the Zhunan Wetland. Across four sessions, nearly one thousand butterflies were tagged, allowing ECOVE to deepen its understanding of Purple Crow Butterfly migratory behavior and ecological needs through on-site participation. In addition, ECOVE collaborated with the Taiwan Purple Crow Butterfly Ecological Preservation Association to produce the Purple Crow Butterfly conservation microfilm "A Lifetime of Purple Protection: ECOVE's Ecological Commitment to the Purple Crow Butterfly," using video to expand social communication and the influence of environmental advocacy.

As the relationship between business and society becomes increasingly close, ECOVE will continue to expand multi-party cooperation with local communities, public-sector agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Through action, ECOVE will fulfill its corporate mission of friendly co-prosperity and sustainable development, injecting continuous positive energy into the shared creation of a better living environment.
 

Corporate Volunteers for Friendly Co-Prosperity

ECOVE employees have joined forces to establish the "Friendly Charity Society," which continues to launch public welfare initiatives and encourages employees to participate in social care and create positive impact. The Company believes that corporate social responsibility should be integrated into everyday actions. By combining environmental protection with public welfare through resource reuse and material sharing, ECOVE promotes resource cycling and realizes sustainable co-prosperity.
 

Friendly Charity and Care for Vulnerable Groups

ECOVE is deeply committed to local social care. Through the Friendly Charity Society, the Company encourages employees to proactively propose public welfare actions and explore diverse ways to help others. Working hand in hand with charitable organizations and communities, we continue to support vulnerable groups through initiatives such as the Guanyin Love Home care program, the Taichung Baby Care Program, and the Chung-Yi Social Welfare Foundation invoice collection campaign. Since 2024, ECOVE has also partnered with the Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation to promote "Sustainable Giving: Spreading Love at Christmas," adopting children's wish lists and donating Christmas gifts and daily necessities so that festive warmth can continue while putting the concepts of sharing and circularity into practice. Driven by employees' voluntary participation, these activities bring corporate care into every corner of the community and create long-term, concrete positive impact.
 

Finding New Homes for Supplies: Resource Sharing to Sustain Love

Guided by the core spirit of "Every Resource Counts," ECOVE has long promoted resource reuse and material circulation. Through the Friendly Charity Society, the Company integrates internal and external charitable resources so that items can gain a new life and truly reach people in need. Examples include:
 

• Love Computer Dream Project × digital support for disadvantaged students: computers retired by the Company but still usable are refurbished and donated to disadvantaged students to support their digital learning needs and reduce the educational gap. The program has continued for 11 years and has been well recognized by teachers and students.
• Food bank partnership to support vulnerable families: through cooperation with food banks, ECOVE regularly donates food and daily necessities to vulnerable families, helping them maintain basic living needs while avoiding waste and promoting eective resource allocation.
• Old Shoes Save Lives: since 2020, ECOVE has participated in the "Life Without Spare Old Shoes Saves Lives" program for six consecutive years, donating used shoes and supplies to support residents in impoverished regions around the world and maximize the value of idle resources.
• Donate Books, Spread the Love of the Sunshine: ECOVE has held book exchange activities for three years, encouraging employees to share knowledge and circulate resources. Books not exchanged are fully donated to the Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation, extending the value of reading and passing on knowledge and warmth.

Deepening Local Community Care

Volunteer teams at ECOVE's operating sites actively participate in local community public welfare actions, identify local needs, and provide practical support. For example, the Houli Plant cooperates with Jioushe community activities and donates care packages containing daily necessities; ECOVE WMC, ECOVE SRC, ECOVE Chiayi Energy Corporation, and the Taonan Energy Resource Center provide tangible support and feedback through Love Home activities after gaining a deeper understanding of the supplies needed by these homes.
Oerings collected from Ghost Festival ceremonies at each operating site are centrally organized and donated back to nearby community organizations to ensure that the materials can be used to their greatest eect. ECOVE WMC has also maintained a long-term partnership with the Maria Mamas Cleaning Expert Team - Pioneer Team established by the Maria Social Welfare Foundation, providing environmental cleaning work opportunities that enable sheltered youth to learn independence step by step and transform their lives.

The value of an enterprise is not limited to output; it also lies in whether it can bring positive change to society. ECOVE will continue to realize its vision of friendly co-prosperity and sustainable development through concrete actions.
 

 
Through a series of public welfare actions, ECOVE transforms corporate influence into positive energy for society. Care is not merely a one-time donation, but an ongoing virtuous cycle that brings more warmth and hope to society.
 

Volunteer Honor Roll

The Company values employees' contributions to social engagement and recognizes them through public commendation. At the Lunar New Year commencement meeting, employees who actively participate in public welfare activities, volunteer services, and social responsibility practices are recognized and awarded. This public recognition not only affirms the award recipients by the Company and their colleagues, but also inspires more employees to join social engagement activities, enhancing the Company's sense of social responsibility and team cohesion.
 

Embracing Diverse Cultures and Cultivating Future Impact

To deepen cultural substance and promote the development of the cultural economy, ECOVE focused in 2025 on two major initiatives - the "Little Sustainability Engineer Camp" and the "Urban Tracker - Biodiversity Collaboration Program" - to actively advance environmental education and ecological conservation. In addition, ECOVE encourages employees to practice green consumption through the Green New Lifestyle Movement, support ESG-friendly vendors, and promote a virtuous cycle among culture, the environment, and the economy, thereby realizing the cultural value of "the more local, the more international."
 

Cultivating Future Talent

Little Sustainability Engineer Camp Empowers Children to Become Sustainability Advocates

Jointly organized by ECOVE, the CTCI Education Foundation, and parent company CTCI Corporation, the "Little Engineer Camp" attracted 49 students from 34 elementary schools in 2025. The program aims to enhance children's professional knowledge of environmental sustainability and engineering while cultivating self-directed learning and inspiring future talent. The camp covered sustainable living, environmental education, and visits to engineering workplaces. Through observation, hands-on experiences, SDGs board games, and creative DIY engineering activities, students translated sustainability concepts into practical action. At the closing ceremony, students shared their learning outcomes and reflections from the three-day program in groups, demonstrating their commitment to and creativity in environmental sustainability. Through the "Little Engineer Camp," ECOVE hopes that children will not only learn engineering knowledge, but also become future sustainability advocates who embrace challenges with an engineer's mindset and courageously sail toward the future.
 

Ecological Conservation Action

Urban Tracker Program Connects Nine Cultural Venues to Build a Biodiversity Conservation Network

The "Urban Tracker - Biodiversity Collaboration Program," coorganized by ECOVE and parent company CTCI, takes biodiversity as its central theme. In collaboration with Zhishan Cultural and Ecological Garden and nine cultural venues - including Kishu An Forest of Literature, Lin Yutang House, Hwa Kang Museum, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Sun Yun-Suan Memorial Museum of Science, Technology and Humanities, Taipei Digital Art Center, SPOT-Taipei Film House, and Mayor's Residence Arts Salon - the program puts ecological conservation into practice. It invites the public to care about biodiversity issues, from participating in surveys to implementing conservation programs, and to protect the environment through concrete action.
 

Green Consumption

Employee New Lifestyle Movement, Supporting ESG-Friendly Industries

By linking cultural industries with the employee Green New Lifestyle Movement, employees voted to select 18 contracted vendors with ESG highlights, enabling colleagues to freely purchase healthy and environmentally friendly products according to their needs and contribute to the planet. From the perspective of sustainable management, ECOVE hopes to promote employee and family awareness of health through the Green New Lifestyle Movement, while using the power of green consumption to support environmental and social care. The Sustainability and Net Zero Office also communicates with vendors to understand their ESG practices. During discussions, it reviews local ingredients, friendly products, and employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups to reduce environmental and social resource consumption. This not only provides employees with better consumption choices, but also supports coexistence and co-prosperity between the planet and the environment while stimulating the cultural economy
 

Responding to International Initiatives

ECOVE actively connects with external initiatives by appointing executives and employees as initiative ambassadors. Through the power of multimedia, they communicate the spirit of important international initiatives and share ECOVE's implementation achievements. Participation in these activities not only raises employees' awareness of climate change, ecology, and the environment, but also integrates the concept of charity, calling on everyone to recognize their ability and responsibility to change the world amid global climate change. By caring for the land we live on with sincerity and action, we can support our planet and create more positive impact for society.