App Steps up Fight Against Plastic Waste

Tamsang-Tamsong, a community-based food delivery platform, is expanding to Phuket with the aim of reducing single-use plastic waste.

Akkanut Wantanasombut, founder of Tamsang-Tamsong and a researcher at the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, said the food delivery platform in Phuket was a pilot project which started in December last year. The project aims to encourage stakeholders such as restaurants, online food delivery platforms, delivery workers and consumers to reduce the use of plastics and prevent them from entering the sea.

The project has focused on replacing single-use plastic with a food carrier, known as a pinto.

The basic concept is to support the use of a pinto, with restaurants taking part in the scheme offering first-time customers a free pinto containing food and sent via riders. Customers can return the pinto to the rider and receive a new pinto with food with the next order.

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