BANGKOK (NNT) - Landfills and garbage processing plants are seeing increased fire hazards during the summer season. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is calling for increased precautionary measures at these facilities to prevent fire and subsequent air pollution issues.

 

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) has called for related agencies and the general public to be on high alert against fire accidents at landfills and garbage processing plants, as the country is transitioning to summer. Pollution Control Department (PCD) Director-General Athapol Charoenshunsa said the department has classified landfills with inadequate garbage handling practices along with waste to energy power plants across the country as fire hazard areas.

 

Open fires in farmlands surrounding these facilities also pose a risk of fire accidents, which could result in the emission of airborne particulate matter, harmful gases such as hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, and carcinogens such as dioxins.

 

The department is now urging related agencies and the general public to be on high alert against landfill fires and to report any suspicious activities to relevant officials for immediate rectification.

 

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Preventable, but only if they want to.

Yes, happy hunting. We all know who the criminals are! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Landfills are only part of the problem,

Better than nothing, but I am afraid what they will do will be close to it. 

To change the culture of burning it takes money that after  covid, neither the goverment or the people have. 

Let's see. 

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

result in the emission of airborne particulate matter, harmful gases such as hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, and carcinogens such as dioxins.

Yet politicians are allowed to hire loudspeaker vans to tour city centres bringing traffic to a halt, burning thousands of litres of fuel whilst broadcasting a message that no can hear.  Even company directors have failed to see this sort of polluting advertising dissuades potential customers from the brand that has delayed them and burn fuel unnecessarily.

Open fires in farmlands surrounding these facilities also pose a risk of fire accidents, which could result in the emission of airborne particulate matter, harmful gases such as hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, and carcinogens such as dioxins.

 

OMG! Thank you for warning me about this and well done to you and your team for preventing such pollution....????