Key Stakeholders: Shareholders/ Customers and Consumers/ Government and Civil Society Sectors
The use of high-quality, eco-friendly packaging is essential to Mitr Phol as it reflects the Company’s commitment to both product excellence and its responsibility to society and the environment. High-quality packaging protects sugar from contamination and damage during transportation and storage, ensuring that customers receive safe and high-quality products. Opting for eco-friendly packaging also underscores Mitr Phol’s commitment to minimizing environmental impact. This includes ensuring consumer convenience and safety, as well as facilitating proper sorting and disposal once the packaging becomes waste, helping to reduce landfill waste and unnecessary use of natural resources.
To fulfill this commitment, Mitr Phol has set a target that by 2030, 100% of its sugar packaging will be designed to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable. In 2024, 95% of the Company's sugar packaging already met this target. These efforts contribute not only to long-term sustainable business growth but also to enhanced customer trust and satisfaction, while supporting environmental stewardship.
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Packaging is made from recyclable and compostable materials.
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95% of total packaging
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95% of total packaging
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Mitr Phol places great importance on minimizing the environmental impact of its packaging throughout its life cycle, while also satisfying the diverse needs of consumers. Therefore, the Company has established a packaging policy focused on four key areas:
Developing recyclable product technologies that align with the circular economy.
Reducing the Use of Single-use Plastic Packaging and Increasing the Use of Reusable Packaging
Promoting compostable and recyclable materials in packaging development.
Promoting recycled packaging to reduce the consumption of new materials.
Mitr Phol has designed its sugar packaging to be monomaterial, avoiding the use of different materials to make discarded packaging easier to recycle and reuse as well as to encourage on phasing out single-use plastic.
In 2024, the Company used approximately 7,300 tons of recyclable packaging materials.
Mitr Phol has developed naturally compostable packaging, initially introduced for its natural cane sugar products. The outer layer is made of kraft paper while the inner layer is made from plant-based bioplastics. These bioplastics protect the product from moisture and naturally degrade after disposal.
In 2024, the Company used approximately 0.14 tons of compostable packaging materials.
Mitr Phol incorporates up to 94% recycled paper in its carton packaging production. By enhancing the strength of the paper pulp and optimizing the production process, the Company reduced paper usage by 114 tons.
In 2024, Mitr Phol used approximately 1,844 tons of recycled paper.
Mitr Phol set a target to reduce the use of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) in its syrup packaging by 10%.
In 2024, Mitr Phol successfully achieved its stated target.
Mitr Phol has introduced recycled polyethylene (rPE) in the production of outer packaging that does not come into direct contact with food. By blending rPE with virgin plastic, the Company reduces reliance on petroleum-based materials, which not only reduces plastic waste sent to landfills or incinerators but also lowers greenhouse gas emissions, as rPE requires less energy to produce than new plastic. Additionally, the Company has expanded this effort through the Sustainability rPE Project (High-Quality PCR for Outer Bag), a collaboration with plastic resin suppliers to study the reprocessing of unused polyethylene materials from factory operations into high-quality post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials.
In 2024, approximately 30% of the plastic resin used in syrup bag production was sourced from PCR materials. Mitr Phol used approximately 2.8 tons of PCR Resin.
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