Thailand's Climate Leaders : CPALL for all: 7 Go Green to advance climate control and sustainable development

Climate change and sustainable development are two sides of the same coin, and a clear shift in the business world indicates the importance of companies becoming more conscious about this global issue.

By no means a new face on this pathway to the future, CP All Public Company Limited (CPALL) is accelerating its corporate sustainability through the 7 Go Green mission 2021, embracing multiple dimensions of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations in 2015. 

CPALL’s affiliates 7-Eleven stores are now undertaking significant measures to raise the bar for climate change management moving forwards through the integration of four main strategies under the 7 Go Green Mission 2021: Green Store, Green Logistics, Green Packaging, and Green Living.

Intira Prunkrattanapa, Assistant Vice President, Product Development and Quality Assurance Division, explained how these strategies are formulated to bring about corporate sustainability. 

“The strategies foster energy-saving operations and utilise modern technologies, enabling 7-Eleven stores to become more eco-friendly and less carbon-intensive. Assessment of Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED)—the most widely used green building rating system in the world—is brought in to ensure a healthy and highly efficient operational framework, tentatively at a lower cost.”

“As it is also part of our mission to propel everybody involved—and everybody is involved—to become aware of their obligation for the waste in their hands, our Green Packaging strategy is taking on CPALL’s 3R+1R concepts: Reduce—Reuse—Recycle + Renewable , to offer alternative packaging that goes together with our waste sorting system and helps our customers become more climate-positive in action.” 

While it may be common knowledge that plastic is environmentally degrading, Kornwut Poopong, General Manager, Food Support Centre, demonstrated how CPALL’s Environmental Friendly Packaging concept (2016 –2021 timeframe) and other proactive campaigns in recent years, geared to mitigate environmental impacts, have come to fruition. 

“Our Reduce & Replace project takes on the Circular Economy model that helps to drastically reduce the amount of landfill waste. Plastic-wrapped caps for water bottles have been cancelled, and the amount of plastic bags for in-store purchases has been scaled down to the lowest it’s ever been.”

“Plus, over 428,000 clean water bottles and plastic parts have been recycled into 107,000 Eleven employee uniforms. Other materials from warehouses are recycled into the ‘Durable Bag’ that withstands multiple usages, allowing the company to bring down the amount of waste correlated to greenhouse gas emissions”

“Renewable energies, especially solar cells, have come to be integral to the majority of 7-Eleven stores and Logistic facilities.”

“From 2019 to 2021 (Q2), CPALL’s sustainability efforts have scaled down more than 33,137 tonnes of plastic waste and 94,294 tonnes of CO2 equivalent emission—equivalent to planting 2,192,884 trees. If organisation like us can successfully manage and balance all the economic, environmental, and social aspects, it shows others that they can come along as well.”  

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source: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2223527