Bangkok, July 10 – The Bangkok governor has ordered a new waste collection system to be effective within a month, and if it fails to complete twice a week, please report to Traffy Fondue.
Mr. Chatchart Sitthiphan, Governor of Bangkok, mentioned about waste collection that from the policy that has been implemented in the past 1 year, including the Zero Waste campaign that we have encouraged the private sector and various communities to have Separating waste from the beginning and the project does not pour together which encourages people to separate wet waste from dry waste Current information shows that wet waste used for composting under the project does not pour total about 70 tons/day. The rest is the cooperation of the private sector and various office buildings which have waste separation at source as well.
For an interesting number, the amount of waste collected has begun to decrease continuously. This is the result of our campaign for large private sectors to separate waste to make Zero Waste. The amount of waste in 2013 has decreased compared to the same month in 2022 as follows: February reduced by 199 tons / day, 5,572 tons / March decreased by 273 tons/day, 8,463 tons/month, April decreased by 318 tons/day, 9,540 tons/month, May decreased by 713 tons/day, 22,103 tons/month and June. Decrease of 719 tonnes/day, 21,570 tonnes/month, total decrease of 67,248 tonnes/month, saving more than 127.77 million baht in budget, considered a number with a continuous good trend. which represents the success of everyone working together And will lead to more efficient waste collection. Because it can reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills or incineration.
As for the problem that some areas are still not good at collecting garbage, such as some points, some villages that may be collected a day a week Data were collected, including the number of vehicles, the number of personnel, and how the garbage collection system was in each district. The manpower of drivers and garbage collectors was not correlated with the number of garbage trucks. The outer districts had high urban expansion but the power rate remained the same. Making it impossible to use every second round of garbage collection vehicles. The expansion of the city has reduced to one collection cycle per week. in order to be able to service the entire area
When using the information available to analyze various problems and find ways to manage and increase the efficiency of waste collection You will get the following main guidelines: 1. Main roads, secondary roads (garbage dumping points on sidewalks) to collect every day. 2. Small roads, communities (according to regulations), temples, government buildings to collect 2-3 times/week and 3. Markets, villages, condominiums, office buildings, department stores to collect 2-3 times/week or more within 1 month must to clearly see improvements which the policy is Adjust the waste collection area to be more efficient. Adjust the number of cars from the excess zone Go to an area where the number of cars is insufficient. or reduce the number of rentals, compressed air trucks (2 tons and 5 tons) must be used 2 times a day, use 2 sets of personnel, forklifts (3 cu.m. and 8 cu.m.) use more than 2 trips, use Khor. 1 person/day, evenly distributed between districts Consider giving money for overtime (OT) meals for volunteer personnel. Which, from eating with employees every week, many garbage sweepers / collectors would like to earn more income, willing to do more OT and prepare plans to improve waste collection at least 2 times / week. Area, storage date, storage time clearly.
If within 1 month there is still a problem with incomplete garbage collection, for example, collecting only 1 time/week, inform us at Traffy Fondue so we can have a database. And to speed up the process. In addition, I would like to ask for cooperation from the people to help separate waste. It's wet and dry waste. Or if we can separate recyclable waste such as PET plastic bottles or paper to sell. It will make the garbage sorting at the back of the employee less. Garbage vehicles will collect more efficiently. Or if in the village can bring garbage to pile together at the point or there is garbage dragged to gather at the point It will make waste collection more efficient. Currently, there is compensation for people who drag garbage to the collection point. (Volunteers hauling solid waste) with the cooperation of everyone. I believe that we will see a lot of improvement. - Thai News Agency
Source: Thai News Agency