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(Pho t o c ourt esy of P aul Lin)
(Photo courtesy of Paul Lin)

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Paul Lin, left, at the First National Oceans Day 2020 at Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
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(Pho t o c ourt esy of P aul Lin)
(Photo courtesy of Paul Lin)
The t eam at P oseidon Indus try with
The team at Poseidon Industry with
bags of tr ash c ollect ed fr om the beac h.
bags of trash collected from the beach.
According to the Environmental “If you take a step back to look at (Pho t o c ourt esy of P aul Lin)
(Photo courtesy of Paul Lin)
Protection Association (EPA), a gov- the whole picture, it’s not just your
ernment agency for environmental house, your neighbourhood, your city,
conservation in Taiwan, the general or your country. We’re talking about
recycling rate is 55 per cent. A 2017 this whole world!” he says.
report from the environmental con- Lin feels happy that more and more
sulting firm Eunomia notes that it is people are joining forces to help save
one of the highest rates worldwide. the earth. People around him have all
Lin adds that Taiwan’s compre- started to be more waste-conscious.
hensive recycling regulations make They give Lin’s company plastic waste (Plastic waste) is
it easier to obtain suitable plastic for from their homes and offices, just like
pyrolysis. what Lin does for his own family. a problem beyond
But he thinks that is not enough. Hoping his company can increase
A study published on Science Ad- the plastic recycling rate in the com- our capability. We
vances in 2017 found that only about ing 50 years, he vows to continue
nine per cent of the world’s plastic was working in the recycling industry to just do the one per
recycled, with the remaining 91 per make that happen.
cent either in landfills or incinerators. “(The moment) I made a decision cent out of the 91
“(Plastic waste) is a problem be- to join this company, I made a deci- per cent.
yond our capability. We just do the sion to make this company my entire
one per cent out of the 91 per cent. career. This could be a career for life,”
Without other people’s help, our con- he says.
tribution is nothing,” Lin says.
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Working Hand-in-Hand Patricia Ricafort t
Patricia Ricafor
Lin urges people to work together
Sub-edited by
to overcome the problem of plastic Sub-edited by
waste. Sarah Ryou
Sarah Ryou