Better World Green, or BWG, and Akkee Prakarn, or AKP, joined the government in supporting the annual ceremony to destroy seized items in finalized intellectual property infringement cases for 2026, organized by the Department of Intellectual Property under the Ministry of Commerce together with the Royal Thai Police, the Customs Department and the Department of Special Investigation at the reserve training ground of the 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, 7th Regiment, Air Defense Command, Royal Thai Army, in Don Mueang district, Bangkok. Dr. Piyanuch Wuttisorn, Assistant Minister to the Ministry of Commerce, presided over the ceremony. The seized items destroyed this year totaled 2,085,705 pieces, representing economic damage of more than 2.145 billion baht, an increase of more than 36.45% from the previous year. They covered consumer goods, clothing, bags, electronic devices, automotive parts, as well as sensitive product groups such as counterfeit medicines, medical supplies and cosmetics. The group of companies was entrusted to take responsibility for disposing of all the seized items under the ISO 14001:2015 environmental management standard. General non-hazardous items will be sent to the renewable energy center in Nakhon Luang Industrial Estate, Nakhon Luang district, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province, to be crushed and shredded to destroy their condition before being processed into industrial refuse-derived fuel, or RDF, to feed the power plant of Recovery House Company Limited under the ETC group. Meanwhile, seized items in the chemical, medicine, medical supply and counterfeit cosmetics groups will be sent to the high-temperature EKP incinerator at Bang Pu Industrial Estate in Samut Prakan province, which controls temperatures above 1,000 to 1,200 degrees Celsius, along with an air pollution treatment system and a real-time air quality monitoring system, or CEMS. Mr. Akarawit Khan Kaew, Vice Chairman of BWG, said the group of companies places importance on transparency at every step. Mr. Supawat Khunworawinit, Chief Executive Officer of ETC, said that using RDF from the seized items to generate electricity helps turn copyright-infringing goods into renewable energy. Mr. Wanchai Lueangwiriya, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of AKP, stressed that the specialized incinerator was designed according to international standards specifically to dispose of these hazardous wastes, in line with the obligations of the World Trade Organization, or WTO.
Better World Green Public Company LimitedBWG was entrusted to dispose of all 2.08 million seized counterfeit items, a concrete contract/order for its waste-disposal services.
