Environment

A milk bag's 10-minute lifespan can be extended to a chair that can last for ten years. The "World-saving Milk Bag" project encouraged students to bring discarded milk bags to the recycling process to create recycled plastic goods such as chairs and plant pots, where they assisted in the collection, cutting, washing, and drying of milk bags. The Primary Educational Service Area Office served as a collection point for discarded milk bags from schools, as well as a data recording and management using the KoomKah application. SCGC would then connect the network and develop a management system for converting milk bags into plastic resin as recycled plastic goods. Each school would receive 5 points for every kilogram of milk bags collected for future recycled goods redemption. For example, one chair is worth 2,000 points, while a table set is worth 3,800 points. The project enrolled 1,300 schools in the central and eastern areas in 2021. By 2022, the project's larger implementation will be underway in other regions.

A collaborative project between SCGC and Unilever Group promotes the establishment of a waste bank in Mueang Mai's Bang Bua Thong Municipality. The project's goal was to collect and sort post-consumer HDPE plastic packaging, including translucent and opaque HDPE packaging bottles and white HDPE packaging bottles such as milk bottles or washing liquid bottles, to manufacture high-quality post-consumer recycled resin (PCR). Meanwhile, multilayer packaging, such as fabric softener bags or snack bags, will be recovered and used as feedstock in petrochemical plants. These recyclable plastics will be utilized to make HDPE packaging bottles for Unilever, such as gallon bottles, fabric detergent bottles, and shampoo and conditioner bottles. Members of the waste bank can redeem one Unilever product for every kilogram of post-consumer plastic materials. In 2021, a total of XXX kilograms of used plastic were collected, and broader implementation in other communities is underway.

Creating new businesses by developing innovative recycled melamine, SCGC partnered with Srithai Superware Public Company Limited to develop the "Basinity" product line for melamine wash-basin production. SCGC collaborated with Topthai Products Company Limited to develop the "Plant Me" product line, which produces melamine plant pots with 10-40% PCR and PIR (depending on the texture). All collaborations were intended to meet the demands of the expanding home decoration market.