2025 Smoke and Wave Art to Reduce Marine Waste
Beach clean-up and artistic connection for marine sustainability actions
The Yanbo Group will hold four beach cleanup actions in 2025, linking edible fish species with ocean pollution through marine waste mosaics, allowing employees to understand the true cycle of "marine waste ultimately returning to human life" through creation, and jointly promoting sustainable seafood with ocean-loving businesses, practicing sustainability from education to action, and from coast to table.
Yen Po International Tourism Group has long been committed to promoting marine conservation actions. Since launching the "Island-wide Marine Conservation Implementation" program in 2022, it has connected all venues in Taiwan, employees, and their families each year to respond to the challenges faced by the marine environment through practical actions. In 2025, the Yen Po Art Reduction of Marine Waste activities successfully completed four beach cleanups, accumulating a total of 6,534 pieces of marine waste and demonstrating the company's determination to implement sustainable actions.
This year, the four events were held at the southern coast of Nanfangao Fishing Port, Guanshan Sunset Platform, Manbo Beach, and Zhuangwei Ecological Dune Coast, mobilizing more than 138 employees and their families to participate.
The cleared marine waste mainly consists of cigarette butts, plastic bottle caps, PET bottles, and plastic bags, among which cigarette butts still account for a significant proportion in multiple events, indicating that everyday waste continues to pose a profound threat to marine ecology.
Cleared: 50 kilograms, 1,302 pieces of marine waste
Main waste: cigarette butts, plastic bottle caps, PET bottles
Cleared: 34.1 kg, 2,308 pieces of marine waste
Main waste: cigarette butts, beverage and food containers, disposable utensils
Among them, there were as many as 1,118 cigarette butts.
Cleared: 58.1 kg, 1,351 pieces of marine waste
Main waste: PET bottles, plastic bottle caps, fishing waste
Cleared: 68.32 kilograms, 1,573 pieces of marine waste
Main waste: plastic bottle caps, cigarette butts, PET bottles
In addition to cleaning up coastal waste, this year, the Yanhwa Group continues its sustainable education concept by inviting employees to create mosaic art using marine waste with the theme of "edible fish species."
These works symbolize: when marine waste flows into the sea and is mistakenly eaten by fish, it ultimately returns to the human table—marine pollution is not far away, but is closely related to everyone's life.
Through creation, participants gain a deeper understanding of the real impact of "waste is not just out of sight, but enters the ecosystem and cycles back to ourselves." This kind of environmental education deepens colleagues' understanding of the interconnectedness between diet, the ocean, and lifestyle behaviors.
This year's event also received a response from St. Paul Bakery Garden, which is also an "Ocean-Loving Store." St. Paul sponsored fish floss Q cakes made from domestically sourced sustainable seafood - knife fish, allowing participants to replenish their energy after the event!
Yenpo has also long been promoting the incorporation of swordfish into dishes, supporting Taiwan's sustainable fisheries through actual procurement actions. It hopes to gather more dining brands and local stores to jointly promote the concept of "sustainable seafood," practicing the "shared benefits" brand value through cross-industry collaboration from production area to dining table.
Yenpo will continue to promote the "Island-wide Marine Conservation Implementation" plan and expand the "From Coast to Table" sustainability initiative, allowing more travelers, employees, local businesses, and industries to join in the effort to protect the ocean, effectively implementing SDG 14 "Conserve Marine Ecosystems" and SDG 12 "Responsible Production and Consumption" goals and sustainable brand responsibilities.
