Abstract:
Industrial Waste Management Planning; case study Kheang Khoi, Saraburi province is a project aims to investigate status of industrial waste management and present performance of industrial investors, government office and other related agencies on this aspect. It also aims to analyze Jaw and regulation involved in industrial waste management. The selected cases used in the study are factories located in Kheang Khoi. The criteria of the selection is that the factories to be invested more than 100 million Baht or be operated by a machine from 50 house power up, and used a sophisticated technology either in the production process or treatment plant. The method used in this study is interview and analyzing related documents. The key person to be interviewed were managers of the factories, government officer and related person from other agencies. The study found that in Kheang Khoi, mainly problem of air pollution are from cement plant and other fiber industries. Whereas wastewater is the problem from agricultural product factories. There are only 5 from total 21 factories have done an Environmental Impact Assessment Study. This is because most of the factories have been operated before Environmental Act 1978 which is the first year of an EIA requirement for some type of industries. However, most of factories have to prepared treatment plant depending on conditions assigned by Factory Act. In addition, some factories realized on environmental problem and be willing to install treatment plant or equipment, especially that treatment may benefit them back. Therefore, the measure that government should prepare for improving industrial waste management include education, economical incentives, and support on research for recycle technique or clean technology.
