Challenges for Sustainable Solid Waste Management: Lessons from Thailand

✍ Scribed by Chanathip Pharino (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 146
Series: SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book analyzes the status quo concerning waste generation and management systems in Thailand and other developing countries with similar problems. It addresses municipal, electronic, industrial and hazardous wastes, as well as management instruments, and key factors shaping the progress of waste management as a whole. The book highlights lessons learnt from various successful efforts to overcome these problems in Thailand, and offers recommendations for promoting sustainable waste management systems in Thailand and other countries with similar backgrounds in the future. These include the introduction of a polluter-pay concept, incentive systems for recycling and reusing, and promoting environmental education and awareness in key sectors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Integrated Waste Management System Overview....Pages 1-13
Waste Characteristics and Practices....Pages 15-28
Municipal Waste Management in Thailand....Pages 29-47
Community-Based Waste Management in Thailand....Pages 49-62
Household Hazardous Waste Management in Thailand....Pages 63-76
Infectious Waste Management in Thailand....Pages 77-91
Electronic Waste Management in Thailand....Pages 93-115
E-waste Management in Thailand (Case Studies)....Pages 117-139
Back Matter....Pages 141-141

✦ Subjects

Waste Management/Waste Technology;Sustainable Development;Environmental Management;Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology;Pollution, general

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