ESG Report 2022

Inner Mongolia Company insists on strictly a w a r e n e s s o f c l e a n e r p r o d u c t i o n , a n d implementing clean production management incorporate relevant awareness into daily methods, and maintaining production quality operations to reduce the impacts on the while gradually reducing resource consumption environment. and pollution. We also raise employees' 8.2.4 Cleaner Production Incorporate the results of cleaner production audit into the daily management of the company, and integrate the cleaner production awareness and methods into the company's production and quality management. Through the implementation of performance appraisal and post duty system, we establish a cleaner production incentive mechanism, and link the reward and punishment measures such as employee bonuses, wage distribution, criticism and recognition to cleaner production performance, so as to enhance employees' eagerness to participate in cleaner production. Establish a special fund for cleaner production of enterprises, and use the economic benefits generated by the implementation of cleaner production for cleaner production in the future, so as to secure the source of funds for cleaner production. This can continuously facilitate the work of cleaner production. Establish long-term cleaner production planning, and further reduce material consumption and energy consumption according to the specific conditions of the enterprise, and hence gradually recycle various energy and waste generated in the production process. Production, energy conservation and environmental protection can be equally valued. Inner Mongolia Company complies with the was transferred to the unit qualified for “Guiding Opinions on Improving the Capabilities hazardous waste treatment for subsequent of Environmental Monitoring, Utilization and treatment. The fermented fungi residue was Disposal, and Environmental Risk Prevention for delivered to the qualified unit to produce organic Hazardous Wastes” and has formulated strict fertilizers. During the Year, the Group set a goal treatment procedures to handle hazardous to dispose or utilize all wastes in a safe and wastes, including hyphae slag, waste activated harmless manner to minimize the harm to the carbon, waste enzyme, concentrated solution of environment. Zhuhai Company also vigorously phenylacetic acid, used mineral oil and promoted waste sorting in response to the concentrated liquid in Mechanical Vapor Group's goal. This year, we have achieved the Recompression (MVR). In order to reduce the safe and harmless disposal and utilization of all amount of waste discarded, Inner Mongolia waste, such as entrusting qualified units to Company has reused the recyclable hazardous comprehensively utilize hazardous waste such as wastes, such as concentrated phenylacetic acid, mycelium residue and waste mineral oil, and for production. For the hazardous wastes that disposing of hazardous waste such as waste could not be recycled, such as waste activated activated carbon, waste enzymes, concentrated carbon, waste enzyme, and concentrated liquid in benzoic acid, crystallization mother liquor from MVR, treatment for turning them into harmless MVR concentrated liquid through the company's w a s t e s w a s m a d e t h r o u g h t h e b o i l e r own incineration. This year, the Group has also comprehensive treatment system of Inner successfully reduced the amount of hazardous Mongolia Company. The used mineral oil, which waste generated, reducing it by 21% compared to was sealed in barrels to ensure zero leakage, 2021 level. In order to better manage the Group's sewage developed cleaner production management discharge process, reduce pollutant emissions measures to further improve cleaner production and avoid causing adverse effects to the strategies, which include four foci: environment, Inner Mongolia Company has Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2022 The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited 77 8.3 Green Operations The Group regards water as the source of life, operations and production, so as to conceive electricity as the development leverage, and at c o r r e s p o n d i n g r e s p o n s e s t r a t e g i e s a n d the same time, it gives back to nature. The Group implement effective solutions to reduce the always keeps in mind the environmental impacts impacts. triggered by each action in the course of business