Environmental Action for Corporate Sustainability are divided into the following main activities:
Implementation of the Environmental Law
The company focuses on environmental stewardship for sustainable growth along with business, thus establishing guidelines for business activities along the value chain to be carried out with minimal impact on the environment and climate change, as well as to promote continually conserving natural resources, adhering to compliance with laws, local regulations, and measures related to the environment, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), recognizing that promoting environmental quality and maintaining ecological balance is a shared mission of all sectors, also a means of building trust among stakeholders, including customers, shareholders, employees, business partners, and local communities.
Energy is a necessity in industry and the trend of energy consumption continues to increase with population and consumption activities. However, energy consumption leads to both direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases which are the main cause of the climate change. Therefore, the Company has a policy to use energy efficiently and for maximum benefits by improving, modifying and developing the production process to increase energy efficiency in production. Reduce energy waste in all activities and production processes including mitigating environmental impacts arising from business operations.
Renewable energy projects
APCO increases channels to participate in reducing the impact of global warming, lowering carbon footprint, and creating a positive impact on the environment in line with the Net Zero Emissions goal, which is an important national and global agenda. This is accomplished by developing a renewable energy project plan at the end of 2022 and executing it until completion as scheduled in April 2023.
The renewable energy project aims to convert solar energy, a clean and infinitely recyclable energy source, into electrical energy. This initiative entails APCO's investment in installing a 100 kW solar cell system in the form of a rooftop solar array on the factory building. Consequently, APCO has reduced its dependency on electrical energy from the Provincial Electricity Authority's distribution system by 30-40% compared to 2022, thereby contributing to the sustainable action to mitigate global warming and address the crisis of extreme climate change.
Other management to reduce greenhouse gas emission
- Promoting the recycling of materials, especially the Company's main supplies such as paper to be used on both sides before being digested for use as a shockproof material
- Promoting the adjusting method of document storage from hardcopy documents to scanning and saving documents as soft files
- Choosing appliances that are energy-saving label 5, green label
- Adjusting the air conditioner at 25 degrees. It is required to turn off the air conditioner in the break time and during cold weather
- Always cleaning the air conditioner filter
- Turning off the lights in the factory, and in places where there is no need and during lunch time
- Replacing the lamp to save energy and always clean the bulbs
- Using water-saving sanitary ware
- Using dried leaves to make fertilizer
- Increasing green area to improve and maintain the scenery of the workplace
The Company has important goals in using electricity and fuel efficiently, including aiming to reduce energy consumption and to instill energy conservation awareness and to change the energy consumption behavior of employees in daily life because it not only bring benefits at the enterprise level, does is also a participatory energy conservation and cooperation in preserving the environment as well. In 2023, the Company has the amount of electricity and LPG consumption as follows:
Overall Operation
| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electricity (Kilowatt-Hours) | 205,828 | 295,624 | 274,836 | 292,780 | 281,840 |
| LPG (Kg.) | 8,655 | 5,835 | 4,365 | 6,543 | 5,007 |
The Company is still aware of the risk of the crisis of scarcity of water resources that are becoming more severe and widening, therefore, there is a policy to encourage employees to use water economically by adopting 3R principles is to reduce, reuse and recycle to be adapted as appropriate for the organization. All water used by the Company is tap water produced by Global Utilities Service Co., Ltd., which supplies water to customers in the Northern Industrial Estate. In 2023, the Company's tap water consumption was increased due to water pipe leaks in early 2023. The Company has already inspected and repaired.
Overall Operation
| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water (Cubic Meter) | 6,545 | 4,193 | 5,334 | 4,245 | 9,660 |
The Company has integrated waste management policy according to the nature of waste and in accordance with the concept of the circular economy, starting from reducing the generation of waste at the source or process that generates waste (Source Reduction), reuse of waste / materials that can still be used (Reuse), Recirculation (Recycle) before using the parts that cannot be used for treatment (Treatment) and disposal of waste safely (Disposal) by dividing waste management into
- Organic waste such as food scraps will be brought to the landfill as fertilizer to nourish the soil.
- Agricultural raw materials left over from production will be given to the villagers to use as fertilizer.
- General waste such as plastic bags, foam boxes and non-recyclable waste is stored for delivery to landfill operations by Thao Boonruang Limited Partnership, the authorized person.
- Recycled waste such as plastic bottles are sent to the buyer for recycling.
Overall Operation
| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Degradable Waste (Tons)* | 15.45 | 17.55 | 18.75 | 19.95 | 21.75 |
| General Waste (Tons) | 3.59 | 2.43 | 2.56 | 2.97 | 3.35 |
| Recycled Waste (Tons) | 2.65 | 1.17 | 1.00 | 2.20 | 3.80 |
| * only agricultural raw materials left over from production |