PUBLISHED: 25 Jan 2025 at 04: 00
Inadequate hazardous waste management practices, which have risen since an increase in foreign investment, are being urged by activists to amend appropriate laws.
Penchome Sae-Tang, chairman of Ecological Alert and Recovery-Thailand, said many local areas nationwide are suffering from a tainted atmosphere as a result of the country’s lower standards for hazardous waste management at the” Ratchadamnoen Speak” that was held on Wednesday.
Due to the government’s policy of welcoming unusual investment, despite concerns for the country’s environment and natural resources, the number of these complaints has quickly grown.
She claimed that the government had some rules changed to promote international expense in waste management, but without following right environmental standards.
She said there are ordinances of policy that make it easier to set up recycling plants and spend management companies.
For instance, rules that only apply to certain regions were changed to make it possible for each state to have such plants. A rules that only allowed the disposal of industrial waste was changed to allow recycling. Interestingly, the National Council for Harmony and Order’s 4/2559 law, which prohibits the use of capital planning laws, has allowed waste sorting factories for landfill and professional waste recycling plants to run everywhere.
This has significantly boosted the number of Chinese entrepreneurs who are conducting business in Thailand, with the majority of them using archaic technology for managing dangerous waste, which has had a negative effect on people’s health and the environment.
” Several governments have given us a poisoned history” as a result of poor policy management, Ms. Penchome said.
In exchange for unsecure economic growth from low-grade companies occupying our land, she said,” we may lose our fresh environment and natural resources.”
She added that new laws are required to make sure that reuse and hazardous waste management facilities use more sustainable systems.
According to the Ministry of Industry, Thailand has about 2,500 business waste management facilities. The majority of these, reviewers say, are small-scale flowers, which are inadequate and of low quality.