Indorama Ventures and the Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Technology at Silpakorn University partnered to drive the SDGs Collaboration Project, as part of the “Green Campus Kickstart: Step One to Sustainability.”
This initiative is one of the key components within the “Circular Economy” course and aims to raise awareness about environmental issues caused by plastic waste, while promoting sorting practices in line with the university’s waste management policies. It serves as an inspiration for students to contribute to the circular economy by sustainably utilizing existing resources.
This event focused on collecting post-consumer PET bottles for recycling and other environmentally responsible purposes. Initiatives like these play a vital role in reducing plastic waste and promoting sustainability. Indorama Ventures supported Recycling and Circular Economy Education to demonstrate how post-consumer PET bottles can be turned into new products, such as rPET resin and fibers. This aligns with responsible production and consumption (SDG 12), and also delivers other value in terms of carbon footprint reductions (SDG 13) and diverting PET waste from landfills (SDG 10).
Engaging with 300 undergraduate students, professors, and staff, the faculty collectively contributed a total of 900 kilograms of PET bottles during this one-day event. The PET bottles collected were sent for recycling at our recycling plant in Nakhon Pathom, contributing to a GHG reduction of almost one ton.
