Waste Management and Secondary Material
Determination and Goals
The company has policy and guidelines for proper and systematic management of waste and garbage generated in the store, no effects to the community, environment and conform to the laws. The waste and garbage generated from the operations, customers and employees; the company aims for reducing scrap waste including campaign for reducing the use of plastic bag.
Management Guidelines
The company efficiently manages waste by implementing proper waste separation and adopting a circular economy approach. This promotes the efficient use of resources. Since 2022, the company has organized campaigns and conducted training for employees on waste separation to enhance their knowledge, understanding, and awareness of the importance of effective waste management.
The company has conducted waste separation, which can be categorized into 3 types:
- Recycled Waste: This includes paper, cardboard, paper cartons, metal scraps, plastic bottles, glass bottles, and other metal scraps. The company processes and sells these items to local buyers, organizing an annual bidding.
- General Waste: This category encompasses plastic bags, plastic cups, tubes, foam boxes. The company arranges for separation and storage to facilitate disposal by municipal authorities following sanitary guidelines.
- Wet Waste (Organic Waste): This involves food scraps from the company’s cafeteria. The waste is separated and made available for employees interested in using it for animal feed or for creating organic compost.
“Yak-laew-D” Projects. (Good sorting)
The Company recognizes the importance of promoting waste sorting from the source and correct management to the destination. Therefore, the “Yak-laew-D” project was organized to campaign and encourage employees to understand and realize the importance of waste sorting, waste reduction as well as recycling waste to bring waste into the management process for benefits again.
Closed Loop Collaboration For Circularity
The company has collaborated with SCGC to lead the closed-loop recycling project for circularity that transforms used plastic within stores into eco-friendly plastic bags. With innovation of high-quality PCR from SCGC GREEN POLYMERTM, by returning used plastic back into the recycling process in a complete closed-loop manner, without any leakage to the external environment, emphasizing the utilization of resources for maximum benefits in line with the principles of the Circular Economy. The initiative promotes the use of eco-friendly plastic bags at Siam Global House Limited (Public Company) headquarters since October 2023 onwards.
