Cleaner production potential at Bangkok Metropolitan Administration | |
| Author | Watana Luanratana |
| Call Number | AIT RSPR no. EV-03-07 |
| Subject(s) | Waste minimization--Thailand--Bangkok Refuse and refuse disposal--Thailand--Bangkok |
| Note | A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering (Executive). |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has planed to solve the problems of huge solid waste generation amount and difficulty to develop a new landfill sites. BMA has used several technologies to reduce the final waste at downstream, which wouldn't solve the problem. In addition, the existing solid waste management are frequently underused or inefficiently used owing to a lack of, or inadequate, planning, regulation and operational management. In order to solve the problem, BMA need to pursue a power management, which aid to reduce the final waste at the upstream. The management requires the effective policy, new waste technologies of the future, public participation and review regulation. Cleaner production (CP) is an alternative way to be proposed for Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) master plan to minimize the waste amount at the originated sources. The approaches of CP are to create a consistency between the waste generation control plan, reduction plan, recycling plan and the processing and treatment facility plan, and increased public awareness and responsibility in urban matter. Waste generation control and waste reduction will target wastes under the other wastes category, which is the main source of the total waste. The targets for waste generation rate of less than 1.0 kg/capita/day and recycling rates of more than 20% of the total waste generation amount, based on the proposals by NESDB and BMA Fifth Development Plan, respectively, are proposed in this study. The predictions of waste generation rate and recycling rate until 2019 are considered. The waste discharge rate accounted with CP plan would be be about 1 kg/person/day, in which the total waste discharge amount would reduce to 30% compared to the total waste discharge amount without CP plan in 2019. |
| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Research Study Project Report (RSPR) |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Energy and Climate Change (Former title: Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (DEECC)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Environmental Engineering and Management (EV) |
| Chairperson(s) | Visvanathan, C.;Samorn Muttamara |
| Examination Committee(s) | Preeda Parkpian;Thammarat Koottatep |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Bangkok Metropolitan Administration;Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship |
| Degree | Research Studies Project Report (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2003 |