GC, CU promote use of bio-plastic products

BANGKOK, July 10 (TNA) - PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (GC), a subsidiary of PTT Public Company Limited (PTT), Thailand's largest petroleum firm, has worked together with Bangkok-based Chulalongkorn University (CU) to promote the use of bio-plastic products to conserve the environment on the sustainable basis. GC President and Executive Officer (CEO) Supattanapong Panmeechoow and CU Rector Bandit Uea-aphon signed a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) in the capital on Tuesday. Under the agreement, GC will support CU to widely use zero-waste cups and other food containers and packages of products, made from environmentally-friendly innovative plastic, called BioPBSTM, in the compound of the country's oldest university, starting from its all 17 canteens. Besides, GC and CU will jointly launch campaigns to create the public awareness on the use of "green" products and the proper management of plastic garbage to relieve the problem of massive plastic wastes efficiently and sustainably. "CU pays attention, as a key issue, to the problem of garbage and dangerous wastes in the CU compound, where there are more than 40,000 students and personnel, and its neighborhood and has, thus, launched the Chula Zero Waste campaign, with the cooperation of GC, to manage and reduce the wastes, as well as to create the public awareness on the use of environmentally-friendly products", the CU rector said. According to the CU rector, the Chula Zero Waste campaign, based on the Closed-Loop Bioplastic Management, the first of its kind in Thailand, should reduce non-degradable plastic cups alone in the CU compound by more than 170,000 units monthly or about two million units yearly. The GC president and CEO stated, meanwhile, that GC, as a leading firm for environmentally-friendly chemical innovations for the sake of people's improved quality of life, has emphasized on and applied the Circular Economy to its business operations and activities for the maximum utilization and efficiency of resources, including the BioPBSTM. (TNA)