BANGKOK, The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) adds two
partners, Osotspa pcl (OSP) and Principal Capital pcl’s Princ Hospital
Suvarnabhumi, to the ‘Zero Waste’ Station@ Bang Kachao River Bend campaign for
the second year. These new partners will join the existing partners Chak Daeng
temple and Saha Pathanapibul pcl (SPC), under the “Synergy of Bang Kachao Major
Community” campaign to connect listed companies with community sectors to build
awareness and change behaviors in waste management among all groups in the
community starting from the residents and entrepreneurs to organizational
agencies in Bang Kachao River Bend area. The campaign, aiming for the exchange
of 15 tons of waste throughout the year, promotes knowledge on environmental and
social responsibilities among the youth to be the driving force towards
sustainability.
SET’s zero waste campaign under the Care the Whale project has created the
collaborative area to promote household and community waste management with the
pilot campaign called the ‘Zero Waste’ Station@ Bang Kachao River Bend launched
in 2021 in six communities around the Bang Kachao River Bend area in Samut
Prakan province near Bangkok. This year, the campaign is further expanded to
embrace more partners in Circular Economy and healthcare, expand the collected
wastes to the glass bottles and reach out to the youth with the common goal to
reduce global warming, create a mechanism to ease the cost of living and promote
healthy living for the community dwellers.
Wat Chak Daeng Abbot Phra Rachwatcharabunchid (Pranom Thammalangkaro) said that
the temple has become a learning center of waste management for the communities
situated along this bend of the Chao Phraya River. The campaign last year played
an important role in supporting environmental management and helping the
community dwellers by enabling them to redeem their garbage for consumer
products sponsored by the partner from the private sector and the wastes were
recycled as school building materials, and Tripitaka which is a way to promote
circular economy. This year will extend outcome to awareness-raising among local
people in the community to foster waste segregation behavior and make them
realize about value of waste which can be processed or recycled.
SET President Pakorn Peetathawatchai said that SET aims to enhance economic,
social, and environmental sustainability for the benefit of all sectors in line
with the vision ‘To Make the Capital Market Work for Everyone’ and environmental
management based on the Circular Economy principle. Apart from the new
partners, the campaign will focus on encouraging entrepreneurs, shops, Tambon
Administrative Organization, schools to sort waste, especially the knowledge and
practical implementation of systematic waste management among youth.
Furthermore, SET has also provided the Climate Care Platform tools to the
station in order to calculate reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent as
well as the comparison of waste sorting and tree planting, to produce concrete
results on a continuous basis.
Vice Chair, Executive Board, SPC, Pasook Raksawonkse said that the company’s
participation last year was part of the company’s commitment to help better the
communities’ and consumers’ quality of life, and promote the environmental
conservation. This year, the company, under this campaign, expands the
sponsorship to provide more consumer products in exchange for waste items to
cover local business entrepreneurs, in addition to the community dwellers.
Moreover, SPC plans to be the core organization to educate 1,000 local youths in
11 schools around the Bang Kachao River Bend area about the benefit of waste
management and sorting process to instill environmental awareness.”
Head of Corporate Communication and CSR, OSOTSPA, Sutida Siamharn said with the
company’s vision of “The Power to Enhance Life.” OSP focuses on the resource
management that can reduce the impact to the environment based on circular
economy’s principles and in line with the campaign. Therefore, the company plays
a part in this year’s project by setting up drop-off points at the temple for
the community members to bring along and drop their glass bottles. The company
will then recycle them into new products and will return the recycled products
to the community around the Chak Daeng temple to be used internally or for the
benefit of the community in various events. Moreover, OSP will coordinate with
the recycling companies in the community to recycle these bottles and contribute
a certain amount of money to the temple in appreciation of the personnel who
have put efforts in this project. In addition, the company has also created a
video clip on the journey of the bottles and the guideline of waste segregation
for recycling, aiming to tell the know-how and build the understanding so that
the community will be a part of the synergy to protect the environment
altogether.
Principal Capital Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer Tanee
Maneenut said that Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi has joined this year’s ‘Zero
Waste’ project, in line with the company’s goal to become a Sustainable Hospital
within 2023. The community dwellers can turn waste items into medical items
such as sanitary masks, alcohol-based sanitizer and basic herbal medicine, and
the hospital has also donated 100 doses of vaccine to the temple for the benefit
of the dwellers of the community in Samut Prakan province where is home to the
hospital and to be in line with the determination to building the giver culture
to assist people, community and society.
During September to December of 2021, the Care the Whale project’s “Zero Waste”
campaign managed to sort and recycle a total of 4,770 kilograms of waste from
households and organizations, reducing 4,093.85 kilograms of CO2 equivalent. In
2022, the campaign is expected to gather 15,000 kilograms of recyclable wastes
from the community dwellers and entrepreneurs around the Bang Kachao River Bend
area. These items include garbage, plastic bottles, food bags, cloths and glass
bottles which can be exchanged for certain consumer and healthcare products at
Chak Daeng temple all year round.
Business and community sectors, and interested public are welcome to join a
“Synergy of Major Community, Zero Waste x 2” seminar to be participated by Phra
Methee Wachirasophon, Pasook of SPC, Tanee of Principle Capital, Sutida of OSP,
and SET Senior Executive Vice President Soraphol Tulayasathien, with Sutiwas
Hongpoonpipat as an MC, on June 15, 2022, at 19.00 hrs. via Facebook of ‘Care
the Whale’, SET Social impact and SET Thailand.
Source: The Stock Exchange of Thailand