2017_Visiting Report -Thailand

 

Ayutthaya Province is the home of the ancient capital of Siam, Ayutthaya ,which dates back over 400 years and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located around 1.5 hours from Bangkok, it was a base where Buddhist culture developed, has abundant tourism resources and is mostly flat land. As it is an important rice cultivation area, growing a substantial amount of rice, consequently, waste management is a key policy to be implemented in the local government’s future development blueprint.

 

Thailand has almost 2500 natural landfill sites. The landfill site the Green Technical Service Team was invited to visit this time is located in Ayutthaya and is the product of a plan implemented by the Prime Minister of Thailand in October of 2016, with the local government mainly responsible for undertaking the project. It receives and disposes of around 1200 tons of waste every day produced by the 7 million local inhabitants and people of satellite cities. The Green Technical Service Team heard that the local government is actively seeking investment in peripheral equipment to make the landfill site a demonstration landfill and to turn it into an ecological park and a new development area in future.