GC One Report 2023 [EN]

The 4th Upcycling Upstyling Project transformed used plastics into stunning eco-friendly fashion, with 8 partners and 12 designers coming together to produce 15 fashion collections for GC Sustainable Living Symposium 2023. A total of 992 plastic bottles were used in place of virgin resin, reducing over 17.4 kgCO2e of greenhouse gas emissions. Innovative plastics and chemicals for automobiles of the future have been developed in pursuit of the Net Zero goal, featuring a lightweight automotive innovation composed of over 1,000 components made from engineering plastics, eco-friendly production process and coated with a zero-waste technology, allowing for 100% excess coating to be reutilized. GC actively enhances energy efficiency, reduces energy consumption and increasing its renewable energy consumption in production. In 2023, a total of 194 projects were carried out, resulting in a decrease of 1.85 million gigajoules in energy consumption, 607 million baht in expenses and equivalent to 138,090 tCO2e in avoided emissions (Scopes 1 and 2). In part of renewable energy consumption by installing solar rooftops and floating solar farms. In 2023, it utilized 9,895 MWh of solar-based electricity.

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