Water Stewardship
Water Stewardship
Water is an essential resource for SCGP's business operations. Regarding the use of water resources with the most value and most significant benefit, SCGP has applied the 3R principle to improve the production process to reduce water withdrawal, reuse, and recycle water in the production process, including the restoration of the natural water resources. To discharge water to public sources, SCGP strictly complies with laws & regulations to prevent any impact on the environment or communities.
Moreover, with today's climate change conditions, which has a significant effect on water management, such as unseasonal and erratic rainfall patterns, no rains at the headwater area, depletion of water volume in the dams. Coupled with the increasing demand of water consumption in all geographical areas and sectors creates a risk of water shortage in the manufacturing process and nearby communities. SCGP is committed to leveraging the capability to manage the water through the Integrated Water Management Working Team comprising of representatives from every business to formulate a strategy to address water-related risks and water usage efficiency. SCGP also set up a function unit for water-related risks – monitoring, working with the government and industry sectors, with digital technology adoption, and creating innovation to increase water usage efficiency in the production process and recycle the treated water.
Strategy
meet quality standards, monitor, measure the effluent and its quality, report on the effluent issues, incident investigation, corrective action, and reduce effluent.
Target
with business as usual (BAU)
at the base year of 2014
2023 Performance
Water Withdrawal per Ton of Production
m3 / Ton
Water Withdrawal per Sale Revenue
m3 / Sale Revenue (Billion Baht)
Water Withdrawal Reduction Compared with Business as Usual at Base Year of 2014
% Reduction
Water Withdrawal per Ton of Production by Business
m3 / Ton
Water Withdrawal by Business
Note :
- Include abroad in 2022
- Abroad include Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia
- SCGP Business: PP = Paper packaging, FB = Fiber-based packaging, CIP = Consumable Industrial Packaging, PPP = Performance Polymer Packaging
SCGP continues the assessment process of water related risks in account with both country and local water stress since 2019 covering the scope of assessment for regional operations in ASEAN including Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. Currently, the AQUEDUCT country ranking result shows that SCGP has no operation in water stress area.
SCGP managed the agricultural project’s water circulation by supplying treated water with the quality as specified standards from the mill to the farming areas (such as rice, sugar cane, lotus) of communities nearby that can reduce the water shortage in cultivation.
SCGP continuously implements water for agricultural projects by delivering treated water in reference with relevant standards and laws to rice, sugar cane and lotus fields at least 45,000 cubic metre per month. Besides, Farmers in nearby areas agree to accept SCGP treated water for use.
SCGP reported the quality of water discharged in many parameters such as pH, temperature, BOD, COD and TSS tested with standardized measurement methods and certified laboratories. SCGP sets internal standard: SS (mg/l) < 30, BOD (mg/l) < 16, COD (mg/l) < 110.
SCGP monitor wastewater and treated water daily. If improvement gap is found, related department will be informed to solve the problem to improve wastewater quality such as reducing chemicals which increase suspended solid in water.
(Compared with Thai Law on treated wastewater quality standard B.E.2560: SS (mg/l) < 50, BOD (mg/l) < 20, COD (mg/l) < 120)
Additionally, SCGP has actions to improve wastewater quality. For example, effluent water treatment improve concentration of sludge by developing screw press to squeeze drier sludge and finding the optimal condition to run the system efficiently as well as chemicals that can help overall system performance. Meanwhile, SCGP has efforts to find new technologies to develop step-by-step. SCGP emphasizes the importance of effluent treatment as one of production processes.
SCGP has invested in technology to reduce water used in the production process and circulate water used in the production process to be reused and recycled. There are such technologies as installing and improving water filtration systems (SAVEALL/PETEX), installing high-efficiency machine cleaning equipment ,to reduce the use of cleaning water. Including the selection of machinery that uses the minimum water technology.
SCGP has continuously reduced water usage in its production processes by reducing the amount of water used and recycling water through the use of technology and innovation.
- Expanding the use of treated water in production processes has increased the reuse of water as recycling water in various systems such as machine sealing system, floor cleaning and chemical dilution, resulting in a reduction of 4 million cubic meters of water usage per year.
- Improving the high-pressure water cleaning system has also reduced water usage by approximately 0.7 million cubic meters per year.
- Installing high-technology water screening system has also decreased water usage by approximately 0.8 million cubic meters per year.
- The Reuse RO Reject Project has further reduced water usage by 0.4 million cubic meters per year.