Pilot project aims to tackle illegal disposal of industrial waste

By THE NATION

 

 

The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand has launched a pilot project on waste monitoring, aiming to reduce illegal disposal of industrial waste in Thailand, Porntep Puripatana, the deputy governor of special affairs, said.

 

“This pilot operation has been organised in the Northern Industrial Estate in Lamphun province,” he said. “The waste will be monitored from the source to the disposal destination, to prevent disposal in improper places.”

 

This project is in the first phase, with the aim to test the system, as well as GPS and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies.

 

“We are using RFID to monitor those wastes by radio waves, real-time,” the deputy governor explained. 

 

“Trucks picking up the waste will also be monitored, preventing them from driving off their route to dispose the waste of at improper places.

 

“This phase would be finished in August or December, and the second phase, which will start later, will be about the installation of weighing scale and code checking,” he said. “The budget for this phase would be Bt20 million, and we want this pilot project target to be completed and applied to other industrial estates.”

 

Porntep explained that those factories need not pay more for this operation. “In fact, it is more convenient than submitting documents to the estate for picking up the waste to dispose of. Moreover, this developing system will allow factories to show their demand for disposal of industrial waste through smartphones."

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30383259

 

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They won’t us it, and it won’t be maintained or enforced.  People still need to work and be responsible, even with technology ????

How will this ever work when they cannot prevent illegal fly-tipping of even household garbage. Kidding themselves that RIFIDS will get people off their butts to actually prosecute offenders shows they don't understand that credible enforcement of existing legislation is required.

How much of that waste is being shipped in from the northern Motherland?

 

On 3/3/2020 at 8:14 AM, webfact said:

 

“Trucks picking up the waste will also be monitored, preventing them from driving off their route to dispose the waste of at improper places.

Yeah right.

From my experience,it is not the Business,s on the Industrial Estates that are the main culprits.

In order to really tackle the problem, they need to target so many of these " Recycle " Business,s who just take what they want and can get money for, and the rest is just thrown into holes in the Ground, on Roadsides Etc Etc Etc.

I frequently see Industrial waste being tipped into a large hole not too far from my House,

There is everything from large Air Con Unit Filters to Building Waste to E Waste Plastics Etc and all in large quantities.

Do the local Authority know about it - yes

Have they done anything about it - Yes in small incriments

But something is better than nothing.