Impact Report 2025
Report2025
What
we do
matters
Better Kids, Better World Through Sustainable Play
Reducing harm is only the beginning. The harder proof lies in children growing and ecosystems recovering.
The easier proof is measured by what we reduce: less waste, lower emissions, fewer chemicals. It's the kind of progress that looks good on a graph, and for much of our history, those were the impacts we could most clearly demonstrate.
Harder proof doesn't always show up on a graph. It asks different questions:
These questions don't have a single number that answers them. They're harder to measure, and we're still learning how to prove them.
At PlanToys, we have never understood sustainability as a matter of reputation. We understand it as a matter of responsibility. Over the past 45 years, we have not thought of ourselves as simply a toy manufacturer. We are part of a larger system, one that connects people, communities, natural resources, and the generations who will inherit what we leave behind.
Every decision we make sends ripples outward. The materials we choose influence ecosystems. The way we manage our supply chain touches the lives of people across the entire value chain. And the choices we make today quietly shape the world that children will grow up into tomorrow.
We also hold a firm belief about what toys are, and what they can be.
They are not merely products. At their best, they are tools for learning, discovery, and growth. They create space for children to build skills, explore ideas, and develop through play. This is why we believe responsible business must hold two dimensions of impact in view at once: the resources a product requires to exist, and the value it creates once it becomes part of someone's life.
Our 2025 Impact Report is not a story of sustainability activities nor a showcase of our best moments. It is an honest attempt to understand the full scope of our impact, what we have done well, where we are making genuine progress, where real challenges remain, and what we must commit to next.
This report follows both forms of proof. One is about children: whether thoughtful design can create meaningful access to play. The other is about the land: whether the way we use resources contributes to restoration, not simply reduced harm. Neither story is finished, but together they explain why this report exists.
Creating Value Through Play
Expanding our role beyond toy design toward creating meaningful opportunities for learning, development, and access to play for children, families, and communities.
Taking Responsibility for the Resources We Use
Moving beyond harm reduction toward active restoration: supporting the ecosystems our business depends on, and giving something of genuine value back to the natural world.
From toys
to play
Expanding Access to What Matters Most
For 45 years, PlanToys has been built on a strong belief: play is the foundation of learning. Our toys are designed to support children's physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development by putting discovery and hands-on experience at the centre of childhood.
But over time, we confronted a harder truth. Providing good toys and creating access to meaningful play are not the same thing. Millions of children still lack the spaces, the environments, and the opportunities to play in ways that genuinely support their growth. If we believe that play is essential to how children develop, then we have to be honest about the limits of our role as a toy maker.
Our focus expanded beyond designing better toys to creating greater access to meaningful play. That shift in thinking was the beginning of something new, and the idea that would eventually give rise to Forest of Play in both Bangkok and Trang.
We Don't Build Playgrounds.
We build learning ecosystems.
Forest of Play was never conceived as a playground. It was conceived as a learning ecosystem, a place where children are free to experiment, create, fail, and discover through play experience. We believe the most enduring learning does not come from being told. It comes from doing.
Every element within the space is grounded in the principles of play-based learning and child development, thoughtfully designed to support multiple dimensions of growth at the same time. Whether climbing a structure and learning to assess risk, exploring cause and effect through sand play, or negotiating a game with peers while practising communication, cooperation, and problem-solving, children are constantly learning and developing through meaningful play experiences.
In this environment, play is not a break from learning. It is learning time.
When Impact Extends Beyond the Toy Box
For most of our history, we understood our impact through the life of a product—from sourcing raw materials to placing a toy in a child's hands. Forest of Play challenged that perspective by showing us that impact can extend far beyond the product itself. A play space can do something a toy alone cannot. It brings people together. Children, families, teachers, schools, and local communities become part of the same experience, connected through play.
In this setting, play is no longer simply an individual experience. It becomes something shared—open, inclusive, and enriched by everyone who takes part.
The Lesson We Didn't Expect
Perhaps the most important thing Forest of Play taught us is this: designing for children means designing environments, opportunities, and the conditions in which children can grow. The true measure of our work is not found only in the toys that leave our factory. It is also found in the spaces where we make play possible, and in the children who discover what they are capable of inside them.
Waste That Became Wonder
Every day, manufacturing leaves something behind: wood offcuts, production remnants, and components that have reached the end of their original purpose. The question we kept returning to was a simple one: are these materials waste, or are they resources waiting for a new life?
Forest of Play became the place where we tried to answer that question in practice. Today, 95% of the materials used throughout the play space come from reclaimed materials sourced from the PlanToys factory, neighbouring communities, and across Trang Province. Materials that would otherwise have gone to landfill have been transformed into play structures, learning activities, and interactive elements throughout the space.
What was once considered production waste has become a source of imagination for thousands of children. Forest of Play does more than communicate sustainability. It makes sustainability visible, tangible, and something a child can climb on.
People engaged in Forest of Play experiences throughout the year.
Thoughtfully designed to nurture positive attitudes in children across Forest of Play Bangkok and Trang.
Beyond Protecting. Toward Regenerating, One Step at a Time.
The world needs more than preservation
For years, PlanToys focused on doing less harm. We invested in solar energy, measured the carbon footprint of our products and our organization, and steadily improved our manufacturing processes. That work mattered, and it led us to become a Carbon Neutral Organisation in 2025.
But as we deepened our understanding of climate change and the systems behind it, we came to realise that reducing emissions alone is not enough. The world needs more than lower emissions. It needs healthy ecosystems that can recover, adapt, and thrive—supporting both nature and the communities that depend on it. Reduction remains essential, but it is only part of the solution.
From Reduction
Toward Regeneration
For most of our history, the question guiding our environmental work was: "How do we do less harm?" That question has not gone away. But alongside it, a harder one has emerged: "How do we help natural systems become stronger?"
Our participation in Thailand's Voluntary Emission Reduction Program (T-VER*) began with a clear objective: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting our journey toward carbon neutrality. Along the way, however, we began to see that healthy ecosystems can deliver benefits that extend well beyond carbon. That realization has encouraged us to broaden the questions we ask—not only about emissions, but about the wider health and resilience of the landscapes we depend on.
Today, T-VER provides us with reliable carbon data. It does not yet tell us whether biodiversity is improving or soil health is being restored. Measuring those outcomes is the next challenge we are committed to taking on.
T-VER (Thailand Voluntary Emission Reduction Program) is Thailand's national carbon credit standard. Similar in purpose to international carbon standards such as Verra, it provides a framework for measuring and verifying greenhouse gas reductions and removals within Thailand. Under the methodology covering agricultural land, such as the rubber and oil palm plantations in this project, T-VER measures and credits one thing directly: carbon sequestered by tree growth. It does not require or independently verify soil health or biodiversity outcomes. Where this report describes co-benefits such as healthier soil or biodiversity, these are expected outcomes of improved land management practices, not results verified through the T-VER process itself. Closing that measurement gap is the next step in this work.
Where Our Materials Meet the Land
Rubberwood is the primary material used in PlanToys products, which means our environmental responsibility doesn't end at the factory gate—it extends to the rubber plantations where our raw material originates. Through T-VER, we also support carbon sequestration on oil palm plantations within the same project area. While oil palm is not a material we source, supporting its sustainable management contributes to the project's broader environmental impact. We believe it is important to make this distinction clear in our reporting.
Through T-VER, we have started to see a different role for business in those landscapes, not simply as a buyer of raw materials, but as a participant in restoring and strengthening the ecosystems that make those materials possible.
The value created through this work cannot be captured in a single number. It lives in the soil health, the water quality, the biodiversity, the economic stability of farmers, and the long-term health of ecosystems that matter most.
Building Knowledge Through Partnership
Supporting this project means more than introducing better practices. It means working alongside farmers to help them understand why those practices matter, and how decisions made at the farm level can create meaningful environmental outcomes at a far larger scale.
That kind of change requires patience, trust, and a genuine belief that ecosystem restoration is not something a single organisation can achieve alone. It depends on collaboration across the entire supply chain, shared understanding, shared commitment, and shared responsibility.
Growing Impact Together
T-VER project data shows that rubber trees between the ages of 6-10 years have the greatest capacity to absorb and store carbon. As more agricultural land joins the project, the potential benefits grow, not only for the climate but for biodiversity, ecosystem health, and the communities whose livelihoods depend on the land.
At present, T-VER provides us with reliable data on carbon sequestration. It does not yet provide the same level of insight into biodiversity or soil health. Developing that monitoring capability is our next step, and until we have it, we will be transparent about what we know—and what we do not yet know.
This is a journey we are still on. We do not claim to have the answers. But we are committed to continuing, and to letting what we learn along the way change how we work.
Sustainable Agricultural Land Management
Storing Carbon.
Building Toward Restoration.
Carbon impact
Projected total over 7 years (2023–2030)
tCO₂e, at 2,797 tCO₂e sequestered every year
Potential annual income from future carbon credit sales.
Calculated using projected annual carbon sequestration of 2,797 tCO₂e and an average carbon credit price of THB 44/tCO₂e (April 2026). Actual revenue will depend on future carbon credit transactions and market prices.Beyond Carbon
These are outcomes we expect responsible land management to support. Under standard T-VER, they are not independently measured or verified — that monitoring gap is what we're working to close next.
Biodiversity
Green spaces and cover crops that support wildlife and ecological diversity
Native Plants
Protecting plant species along waterways and buffer zones to maintain ecosystem balance
Healthier Soil
More organic matter, less erosion, greater capacity to store carbon
Fewer Chemicals
Organic fertilizers replacing chemical pesticides
Nature Doesn't Always Follow the Plan
Drought and flooding damaged or destroyed trees across parts of the project area, affecting both the landscape and our ability to measure carbon sequestration accurately. These were forces beyond our control, and they humbled us.
What became clear is that successful carbon sequestration depends on more than good land management. It depends on the ability of ecosystems and the people who care for them to adapt to conditions that grow less predictable every year.
Reducing emissions matters. But in a changing climate, building resilience matters just as much.
This is not a problem we have solved. It is a reality we are learning to work within, and one that will shape how we approach ecosystem restoration for years to come.
Carbon Neutrality 2025
A Milestone, Not the Destination
(Based on carbon emissions calculations in Scope 1: Direct Emissions and Scope 2: Energy Indirect Emissions.)
PlanToys Carbon Emission Verification Period 1 January–31 December 2024
In 2025, PlanToys achieved Carbon Neutral Organisation status. It is a milestone we are proud of, and one that took years of consistent effort to achieve.
Reaching it required continuous improvements in manufacturing efficiency, investments in renewable energy through solar and biomass, product carbon footprint disclosure, and participation in the T-VER program. More than anything, it demonstrated that meaningful climate action is possible when progress is measured transparently, decisions are guided by data, and organisations are committed to long-term change.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is necessary, but not enough.
Around us, we see biodiversity disappearing, soil degrading, natural resources depleting, and ecosystems growing more fragile, ecosystems that communities and economies depend on to survive. These are not problems that carbon neutrality alone can address.
That reality left us with a different question: beyond taking responsibility for the harm we cause, can we contribute something positive in return?