The premier has ordered the setting up of an ad hoc committee, comprising the authorities concerned to handle the problem of cadmium slag which is believed to be scattered across several provinces.

 

The committee will comprise representatives from ministries of Industry, Interior, Public Health and Natural Resources and Environment ministries as well as police and the Department of Special Investigation.

 

About 13,000 tonnes of the material, previously buried in a landfill in Tak province, had been recovered and illegally sent to Samut Sakhon, among other provinces, reportedly to be smelted down.

 

Most of it has now been recovered from warehouses in Samut Sakhon and Chon Buri provinces, leaving some 4,000 tonnes still unaccounted for.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-04-10

 

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Apologizing in advance....

 

"oh yeah, well your ma is a cadmium slag!"

 

Sorry, not to minimize the problem, just couldn't help it.

Will they look into how this happenned and what needs to change so it never happens agaib - nuh. They will performa token invstigation and maybe fine a few people - but 'the system' that allows this happen will not change. 

If you smelt it down what does it become? I might be wrong but I thought that slag is what is left over when you take the valuable metals, fuels and ores out of it.

Maybe they should seek the services of this company.

 

Reading about them they appear to be the experts.

 

https://www.ciwm.cc/en/

 

Yet another committee albeit an ad hoc one. 

 

I thought actions speak louder than words. Sorry wrong country.  Let's just talk about it... It might just then go away by itself. 

 

Yeah right! 

18 hours ago, webfact said:

The premier has ordered the setting up of an ad hoc committee, comprising the authorities concerned to handle the problem of cadmium slag which is believed to be scattered across several provinces

Got to be a committee in it somewhere.

... And we will set up a completely safe nuclear power plant that no one should worry about. Trust us. 

23 hours ago, webfact said:

buried in a landfill in Tak province,

To be clear:

"The cadmium waste was rendered inert before being disposed of ... retrieving it from the landfill and transporting it to Samut Sakhon province for smelting is an offence."

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