COVID-19 Contributions
From Post-Consumer PET Bottles to Coverall PPE Suits
Indorama Ventures, in partnership with Less Plastic Thailand, promotes waste separation for the benefit of society, bringing post-consumer plastic bottles through a circular economy, back as PPE protective suits. These suits will help supply hospitals in need of equipment to be used in daily duties of medical staff working to fight the Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand.
We invite everyone to separate their PET bottles at home and pass them on to collectors in your area for us to recycle! The suits produced from post-consumer bottles are durable, can be washed and used up to 20 times made following the standards of the Thailand Textile Institute and Food and Drug Administration. Our factory processes the bottles into flakes, spins them into polyester yarn, woven by Thai Taffeta and cut into PPE protective coveralls by Thai Itokin and Rosso. Through this project we hope to relieve the shortages for equipment in this crisis and encourage the public to continuously separate waste at home.