Thailand Institurte of Packaging Management for Sustainable Environment under Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has collaborated with 15 municipalities to promote the participation of households in segregating recyclables from the upstream.
FTI chairman Santi Vilassakdanont said the treatment of waste has become the country's major concern and an obstacle for sustaining the industrial sector and the local community.
"We plan to expand our collaboration to 400 municipalities by next year in order to help them save their budgetto get rid of the waste and reduce the quantity of rubbish treated in the dumping site in each area," he said.
The instite launched this project in 2006.As of July 2009, the project had gathered about 470 tonnes of recyclable rubbish from eight municipalities, which could be sold for more than Bt2.5 million.
It will also set up recyclable-waste markets where they will purchase the recyclable waste from households and industrial plants at a reasonable price.This project will take 18 months.
Apart from this project, the institute has promoted its campaign of segregation of recyclables from the upstrem in hotels and schools such as setting up a recyclable waste bank in communities and campaigns for undergraduate students to pay attention to recyclable waste bank and proper disposal or recyclabe material.
The FTI presently contributes for the operation of such projects through donations from industrial enterprises on a voluntary basis. However, the lukewarm response has resulted in limiting the pace of project expansion.
He said the public sector should encourage and support thes projects through budget subsidy or tax incentives, for example, tax deductions for donations.
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