CP AXTRA Receives Model Organization Award for Waste Management from the Pollution Control Department, Advancing Retail Business Toward Sustainability
CP AXTRA Public Company Limited (The Company or CPAXT), the operator of Asia's leading wholesaler and retailer "Makro and Lotus's”, has received the Model Organization Award for Waste Management from the Pollution Control Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. The award reflects the company's commitment to conducting business alongside sustainability and driving concrete waste and plastic management in Thailand's retail sector.
The award was presented by Mr. Suchart Chomklin, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, to Ms. Siriporn Dechsingha, Chief Corporate Sustainability and Communication Officer, CP AXTRA Public Company Limited. Also in attendance were Dr.Raweewan Bhuridej, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Mr. Surin Worakijthamrong, Director of the Pollution Control Department, and Dr. Teerapon Tanomsakyut, representative of the Charoen Pokphand Group.
The award reflects CP AXTRA's environmental efforts under the concept "AXTRA Zero Waste," which promotes comprehensive waste management in line with the Circular Economy approach. In 2025, the company successfully diverted a total of 75,973 tonnes of waste from landfills — comprising 16,010 tonnes of food waste and 59,963 tonnes of recyclable waste — while collecting over 2.5 million plastic packaging units through Makro and Lotus’s branches nationwide, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 179,619 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent.
The company has also developed a "Zero Waste to Landfill Store" model, with Makro Bang Phli serving as a flagship for end-to-end waste management. The store reduced its landfill-bound waste from over 2,600 kilograms per day to zero. CP AXTRA is also advancing the "AXTRA Circular Impacts" project to systematically upgrade used plastic management — covering collection, sorting, recycling, and value-added processing — to reduce waste and give resources new life in a circular system.
These efforts align with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's Plastic Waste Management Roadmap 2018–2030, which targets 100% plastic waste utilization by 2027, as well as the push for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation to encourage businesses to take responsibility for returning packaging into the recycling system effectively.
CP AXTRA continues to collaborate with government agencies, the private sector, and all stakeholders to drive the circular economy and comprehensive waste management, working toward its Zero Waste to Landfill goal by 2030.
