The Company's Safety, Health, Environment, and Energy (CPF SHE&En) policy and technical standard optimizes water usage based on the 3Rs principle – Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. The Company also monitors water withdrawal and water consumption, as well as the volume of water withdrawn from water stressed areas, to determine practices for enhancing water efficiency.
Increased Water Efficiency within the Company
By applying the 3Rs principle for water optimization, the Company can reduce reliance on external water sources, while mitigating future drought risks by analyzing water usage in various processes.
Pre-discharge Wastewater Management
Under the CPF SHE&En Standards, the Company monitors and tracks the quality of treated wastewater before discharge, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations. The Company has also identified sensitive water bodies (sensitive receptors such as conserved water sources, controlled water sources, or water sources vital for communities) to avoid impacts on local communities and ecosystems. The Company regularly inspects and monitors the quality of external water sources. Moreover, the Company has initiated a Zero Discharge project in pilot livestock farms to reduce environmental issues and utilize treated water for other purposes, such as watering plants in green areas within the facilities.
COD/BOD Online Monitoring Project in the Ready-to-Eat Food Business (Thailand Operations)
The Company has installed a real-time wastewater quality monitoring and tracking system that checks critical indicators, such as Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), and pH levels. The system alerts operations to take corrective action when necessary and also sends water quality information to relevant authorities. This helps assure the community and authorities with regards to water discharge quality, enabled by the possibility to access historical data.
Awareness Raising within the Company
The Company commits to raising employee’s awareness on the importance of water stewardship, guidelines for water conservation, drought response plan, and approaches for employee participation. This has been achieved through ESG Fundamental Training Program for employees, aiming to help employees understand the impacts that may occur. This leads to conscious water usage with considerations of the surrounding community and society’s needs.
Engaging with Stakeholders on Water Management
Employee Capacity Building through “Water Footprint Assessment” Program
CPF organized an online training program “Water Footprint Assessment” with objectives to raise awareness in water management and promote understanding in principles importance and processes in water footprint assessment in line with CPF SHE&En Standard, in order to be applied across CPF operations. The program covered current situation in water management, general knowledge on water footprint assessment and step-by-step water footprint assessment process. The target audience included management and employees involved in CPF SHE&En Standard implementation. In 2022, 63 participants have joined this program.
