Mitr Phol Group Sustainability

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Mitr Phol is well aware of its responsibility for its products throughout their life cycle, including their packaging. The Company is responsible for managing its food packaging from design and manufacturing to delivery and customer and consumer use. Therefore, Mitr Phol continuously develops and introduces new packaging solutions to meet the needs of customers and consumers to ensure convenient use and efficient packaging waste sorting and management.

2023 Target and Performance
Target
Performance
The percentage of recycled and compostable plastic packaging
95% of total plastic packaging
95% of total plastic packaging

Management Approach

Mitr Phol is committed to reduce the negative environmental impact of its packaging throughout the product life cycle while satisfying the diverse needs of consumers. Therefore, the Company has established a strict packaging policy focusing on 4 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.

Additionally, Mitr Phol has set a goal to increase environmentally friendly packaging.
By 2027, 100% of the Company’s sugar packages will be designed to be reusable,
recyclable, or compostable.

Reducing the Use of Single-use Pastic Packaging
and Increasing the Use of Reusable Packaging

Mitr Phol has designed new packaging for convenient reuse applications to reduce the need for new purchases. Reusing bottles decreases the amount of plastic required for new production, and these bottles are recyclable when discarded. The eco-friendly sugar bottles are designed for consumer convenience, with a cap that opens on both ends and features holes for precise sugar dispensing, making it easier to add sweetness to food. Made from HDPE and PP, these plastic bottles are heat and moisture resistant, impact-resistant, and offer various reuse possibilities.

Bottles are designed to offer various reuse possibilities.

Furthermore, the Company promotes the use of tank cars to transport cane syrup and granulated sugar to customers to reduce the use of plastic packaging.

Tank cars for delivering cane syrup to customers
Tank cars for delivering granulated sugar to customers

Promoting the use of recyclable packaging

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.

Sugar bags are made of mono-material plastic for easy recycling and reuse.

Promoting the use of compostable packaging

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.

The outer layer of the packaging is made of kraft paper while the inner layer is made from plant-based bioplastics.

Additionally, we have associated programs to improve packaging as follows:

  • Allocate R&D resources to support packaging development projects and design sustainable packaging in collaboration with government agencies and universities. 
  • Collaborate with customers to return 1-ton Polypropylene bag for reuse in factory and send them to a recycling factory to be recycled in the system.
  • Coordinate a program with plastic producers in Thailand to implement closed-loop program that uses plastic waste in the factory to make Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) resin, which will be used to produce PCR bags for syrup.

Related Policy and Statements

Packaging Policy

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