The increasing municipal solid waste (MSW) generation along with the high fraction of organic waste and a common disposalof open dumping is the current scenario in many areas in Thailand. As a response to this problem, the country’s PollutionControl Department (PCD) aims to reduce the MSW ...
Despite the general awareness of the problem by each authority concerned there are no concrete mechanisms or strategies in place to deal with it. Until February 1998 Thailand ratified the countrys signing of the international Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous ...
addressing waste is a key concern. In 2021, the country produced 24.98 million metric tons of solid waste, of which only 16% was recycled back into the supply chain,according tothe country’s Pollution Control Department (PCD). The waste problem has become so pressing that Thailand has...
Sustainablewaste managementpractices have become challenging due to our consumption behavior and changing socioeconomic conditions. Waste management is a multidimensional problem that requires technology, economics, and sociocultural and political activities to go hand in hand. This chapter attempts to summari...
Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Background Rapid economic growth may have improved our quality of life, but it has also triggered a global waste crisis. This includes the illegal dumping of industrial waste, a persistent problem in many countries such as Thailand. To tackle this issue, ...
This research focused on integrating the problems and needs of solid waste management (SWM) for administering the SWM approach at Kerng Subdistrict Administrative Organization (K-SAO) under the Maha Sarakham PAO in Thailand were studied. This SAO increasingly shares in these problem natural limited ...
Other countries, including Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, have since followed suit and have introduced regulations on waste imports. Furthermore, while exporting trash may seemingly solve the problem locally, it creates a new set of problems elsewhere - particularly if t...
Development of an analytical method for quantitative comparison of the e-waste management systems in Thailand, Laos, and China This study employed a set of quantitative criteria to analyse the three parameters; namely policy, process, and practice;of the respective e-waste manageme... L Li,A ...
A Singapore-based recycling firm’s brush with the Thai authorities is evidence of a well-intentioned international regulation to tackle dangerous waste that is not working. Electronic waste being processed in an informal setting in Thailand. Image: Basel Action Network...
Safe management of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste/WEEE) is becoming a major problem for many countries around the world. In particular, developing countries face a number of issues with the generation, transboundary movement and management of e-waste. It is estimated that the world gene...