How to recycle hard plastic items
With thanks to tips from various Bangkok Recycling Chain members!
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Plastic Bottle Caps Drop Off
Dao Jaras Fah Hometel is partnering with Precious Plastic Bangkok by having a drop-off box accepting plastic bottle caps. The plastic bottle caps will be up-cycled into plant pots, plates and other items.
Other Drop-off Locations
Basement of Emquartier, there is a box accepting clean single use plastic items.
Broccoli Revolution in front of soi 49.
Siam Paragon, outside in the parking lot
Corsair
If you have already separated your plastic waste and don't know where to send it, "Corsair Group" is generous to pick it up for free at your home, temple, school, condo, hotel, shopping mall, etc - this includes office buildings, headquarters and companies in the Bangkok metropolitan area
With its "pyrolysis" process, Corsair will return plastic waste back to what it used to be: "oil" . In this chemical recycling process, the goal is to process 300,000 kilograms of plastic waste per month and convert "worthless waste" into "something valuable," refining it into "fuel" that can even be used in Corsair's own logistics system. This is expected to be a sustainable social enterprise.
The garbage that is picked up has one criterion: "plastic only" - without you having to go through the headache of detailed plastic waste separation. Just separate them into "soft plastic" (both stretchy and non-stretchy), and "hard plastic". Corsair will take it and separate it into further, more detailed categories on their own. IMPORTANT: Corsair does not accept: paper, metal, glass, shiny bags, or foil bags of any sort.
For your home's hygiene, we encourage you to wash the plastic waste so that it is clean and dry. Collect a sizeable amount, or whatever amount that is agreed upon with the Corsair team, and then when you are ready, contact the Corsair team to pick it up once a week. Currently, the team is in the process of planning the collection route. We ask for your patience.
If you're interested in getting Corsair to pick up your plastic waste, click here.
Qualy Design Circular Project
Qualy Design is accepting plastic waste from food deliveries, including plastic utensils, to be recycled into designer furniture and home decor!
There is lots of plastic waste from our consumption, especially single-use food packaging which is a type of waste that is recycled very little. There are many things that the informal recyclers do not accept. These plastics therefore pollute the environment greatly.
Today, friends, these plastic wastes can now be recycled and used in a cost-effective manner. All plastic waste donated by our friends will be recycled to produce well-designed utensils in the Qualy Circular (QC) project!
Each 1 kilogram of plastic donated can be used as a 20 baht discount per product when purchasing products at Qualy design space.
Types of plastics that are accepted include:
Plastic utensils: Spoons, forks and knives!
Clear bottles, colored bottles, opaque bottles, Yakult bottles, milk bottles, and other beverage bottles
Bottle caps
Coffee cups, cup lids, bubble tea cups, drinking cups
Transparent/semi-transparent/opaque food boxes, lids, plastic food trays, plastic bowls, soup cups, sauce/seasoning cups
Yoghurt cups
Other hard and clear packagings such as egg cartons
Bottles: Shampoo, conditioner, liquid soap, dishwashing liquid bottles
Toothpaste caps, facial foam caps
Steps:
1. Please peel off any stickers, adhesive tapes, or labels and dispose of them with other general waste.
2. Wash the containers thoroughly.
3. Collect enough volume to make it worth the sending or drop-off cost.
4. Send via post/Grab or come to the Qualy Design Space at
131 Charoen Rat Road 7 Intersection 7, Bang Khlo Subdistrict, Bang Kho Laem District, Bangkok 10120
Note: Bottles can be squeezed flat to save storage space and shipping costs.
Call 081-684-5600 to make an appointment to drop off items (Ask for P’Jaew).
Business hours: Monday - Saturday from 9:00 - 17:00
To ask for more information or to let them know that you’ll be sending us plastic to collect the discount, reach out to their Line official account: @qualycircular
Let's become socially and environmentally responsible consumers together!
CP Mart
CP Freshmart wants to encourage people to recycle by having people trade 50 pieces of plastic waste for a carton of 10 eggs.
CP FRESHMART only accept plastic bottles, milk carton and drink cans.
Precious Plastic Bangkok
Precious Plastic Bangkok is a community-based recycling solution. They accept bottlecaps (Type 2 plastic/HDPE) and takeaway food containers (Type 5 plastic/PP). You can either drop off at one of their dropoff locations map link here or you can drop off at our workshop located at FREC.
No. 77 Lan Luang Rd, Wat Sommanat, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok 10100
Precious Plastic Bangkok Facebook
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