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Cabinet considers waste management roadmap for the whole country

BANGKOK, 11 February 2015 (NNT) - The cabinet meeting today considered a roadmap on solid waste management for the whole country, following a guideline given by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha.

According to the roadmap, six provinces in critical waste situation will undergo a systematic procedure to deal with waste materials in three stages namely upstream, mid-stream and down-stream management. These provinces are Ayutthaya, Nakhon Pathom, Saraburi, Lopburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan.

Provinces which are not in critical situation will deal with the problem in three steps. The first step is for them to dispose waste materials in a proper landfill in order to ensure fire control and make it ready to be brought up for electricity production. The second step involves permanent waste disposal in which waste materials are transferred to standardized incinerators such as one at TPI Cement Factory. The other step involves cooperation with the private sector in producing refuse-derived fuel stick for power generation and the disposal of new solid waste.

At present, there are five provinces having over one million tonnes of accumulated solid waste, seven provinces having 500,000-1,000,000 tonnes, twenty five provinces having 100,000 - 500,000 tonnes, ten provinces having 50,000-100,000 tonnes, twenty provinces having 100-50,000 tonnes and five provinces having fewer than 100 tonnes.

Udon Thani, Amnat Charoen and Chumphon are provinces setting themselves to dispose all of the accumulated solid waste within six months.


-- NNT 2015-02-11

[canuckamuck]

It's about time they had a plan. Good to see they are thinking about it.

Right now people in our village just dump stuff of the edge of the road over a cliff outside of town. But the lazy ones find a vacant lot in town to do it. There are no other options where we live.

[recycler]

It will take a lot to change the mentality of people about waste and not dropping it where they stand!

[h90]

"three stages namely upstream, mid-stream and down-stream management." you throw the rubbish into the river upstream, mid-stream and everything gets down-stream....problem solved...

[Lupatria]

Am I too old now? First I read:

Waste management considers roadmap for the whole Thai Cabinet

[rickirs]

"roadmap on solid waste management for the whole country, following a guideline given by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha"

Creating a roadmap from a roadmap - hardly a viable SOLUTION.

What is needed is considerable government capital investment to create an efficient refuse-to-energy system. it is not going tp happen by itself! Once again when government investment in Thailand's infrastructure is crucial to the nation's well-being, the Junta produces another plan, followed by another roadmap. Next will be a committee to study the roadmap. But never anything concrete to actually solve an issue. Sometimes I wonder if Thailand could do better having no federal government than the one it has now.

[eliotness]

This topic was talked about in a previous post. Waste management plans have been produced in the past but were not fully implemented and finally just faded away. Correct and effective waste management is a culture issue. The government needs to firstly concentrate on the culture of environmental protection and the misuse of resources, e.g. plastic bags. Internationally there are plenty of good ideas, e.g. Singapore. Please Mr PM start with the schools, educate the children first, then they will put pressure on their parents. Long haul process, it will not happen overnight, but the PM could gain a lot of credit if he started the process.

[ggt]

As a plan "B"...they might consider educating Chinese tourists on the proper use of toilets...as opposed of dropping your drawers anywhere...anytime...

[selftaopath]

It's about time they had a plan. Good to see they are thinking about it.

Right now people in our village just dump stuff of the edge of the road over a cliff outside of town. But the lazy ones find a vacant lot in town to do it. There are no other options where we live.

I doubt trash pick up will be a reality in our village any time soon. So the "tried and true" method of disposal is throw garbage on the ground and let the chickens/dogs/ and probably rats eat it and burn the paper trash including plastics. Nice eh?

Who says Thailand isn't 3rd world?

[selftaopath]

"roadmap on solid waste management for the whole country, following a guideline given by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha"

Creating a roadmap from a roadmap - hardly a viable SOLUTION.

What is needed is considerable government capital investment to create an efficient refuse-to-energy system. it is not going tp happen by itself! Once again when government investment in Thailand's infrastructure is crucial to the nation's well-being, the Junta produces another plan, followed by another roadmap. Next will be a committee to study the roadmap. But never anything concrete to actually solve an issue. Sometimes I wonder if Thailand could do better having no federal government than the one it has now.

IMO these "roadmaps" are to figure out how to steer ill gotten gains to the bank accounts of the govt. officials/politicians and friends/relatives of this bunch. So all this planning takes a lot of time and dialogue. After everyone involved agrees on these issue - the main focus - then something which might also benefit the peasantry will follow - and not before.

Edited February 12, 2015 by selftaopath

[fgmr]

i live in a Tambon of eight Bans. The local town is 9km from the nearest ban. Whilst the town has a regular refuse collection service none of the villages enjoy the same or have any means of disposal other than dumping it elsewhere or burning it in their gardens. There is a National Nature Reserve not far away with the pathways and approach roads littered with rotting garbage. Where no services are provided what are people to do. It also makes it near impossible to teach the children of these communities to treat their rubbish properly

It's about time they had a plan. Good to see they are thinking about it.

Right now people in our village just dump stuff of the edge of the road over a cliff outside of town. But the lazy ones find a vacant lot in town to do it. There are no other options where we live.