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Environmental Performance
RATCH Group PCL.
Sustainability Report 2020
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RATCH remains committed to environmental stewardship, through efficient resource utilization and biodiversity conservation as guided by the Company’s Code of Ethics and Environmental Policy. Measures have been in place to minimize environmental impacts incurring from the combustion of fuels and the releases of pollutants from the Company’s main business. The measures control the Company’s activities from the development of production innovation, the designing of systems to prevent and control pollutant quantity and quality and the management of pollutants to the maintenance of ecological balance of the areas around power plants.
Electric power is the electricity generation business’ product. RATCH thus strives to optimize production efficiency and keep environmental impacts below regulatory requirements, to ensure the electric power is environmental-friendly. The approach also reflects the Company’s responsibility for its products, in line with Target 12.5: Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse under SDG 12 (Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns).
Environmental management for the production of environmental-friendly electric power
Upstream
* Assess all dimensions of risks associated with project development and operations and define preventive measures.
* Develop production innovations to reduce the utilization of resources/raw materials.
* Design the preventive system and control environmental quality.
• Ensure most efficient and least utilization of resources (fuels/water) per product’s unit
• Incorporate control on pollutants and impacts in the project designing
• Further improve environmental-friendly production innovations and promote the innovations at new projects
Responsible product Midstream
* Generate electric power through efficient resource/ raw material utilization
* Ensure pollutant control systems’ efficiency throughout production lifecycle and establish a warning system
* Continually monitor environmental quality
Targets
• Maintain environmental quality and pollutants accordingly to legal requirements
• Ensure continuous and efficient implementation of environmental quality control and measuring device.
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Downstream
* Adopt standardized approaches to handle the pollutants from production process
* Apply 3R principles to tackle production waste
* Reuse/recycle production wastewater/waste
* Reduce or eliminate landfill waste
Zero hazardous waste to landfill Maintain the targeted water recirculation rate in the cooling system Monitor the biodiversity around power plants on an annual basis