ที่มา/ความสำคัญโครงการ :

Believe it or not, a factory produces 1.4 million tons of hazardous wastes per year.

One household and community also produce 0.7 million tons of hazardous wastes per year.

And where is it going?

How/What do they use it?

And who are they?

A Green Box Waste team, who have been running a hazardous wastebin for a healthy community project, got this idea from simple questions ina daily live such as where did we throw away so many hazardous trash such as a battery, spray can, detergent can, and incandescent light bulb; did we throw it in a general wastebin; and where was it going?

Because of these doubts, a Green Box Waste wants to create an accurate standard of hazardous waste management in a community.

Suwan Denmalai, a co-founder of a Green Box Waste, said: “most of hazardous wastes are made from the process of production of an industrial sector. Basically, an official unit has already got a standard of waste management for a company to terminate its wastes in proper ways such as burning anddisposal, and any company has to be correctly proved through the official regulations. For example, incineration, burning waste, has to have a pollution control system, and disposal will not generate toxic substances to soil and river.

Villagers do not know much about waste management and have no choices to deal withtons of hazardous wastes. In addition, sometimes they do not sort between hazardous wastes and other kinds of wastes, and waste disposal (approximated 7 million tons)has generated a lot of toxic substances in a community such as lead, mercury, cadmium, manganese, arsenic, which have caused a lot of diseases such as cancer, pneumonia, kidney failure, and bone disease in the last 10 years.

ประโยชน์ของโครงการ :

People understand and change their behaviors and also participate in a process of hazardous waste sorting from their houses.
Local government and related offices start paying attention to the process of hazardous waste management.
Hazardous waste management in a community will be well managed.

กิจกรรมที่จะดำเนินโครงการ :

To solve this problem, we will make a hazardous waste bin and give it to sub-district administration organization Ta-Boon-Me, Chonburi. Hopefully, this waste bin will be a model of waste management for other community as it has different color-coded apertures for different wastes - which blue is used for battery; yellow is used forincandescent light bulb; and red is used for spray. And whenever it’s full, we will remove it.

Our project will make three hazardous waste bins and inform villagers about that. Through collaborating with public and private sectors, we will properly demolish wastes, disposal, when it’s full.

สมาชิกภายในทีม :

Suwan Denmalai, E-mail : Suwanmanu@windowslive.com

Somkit Sukkham, a village leader, Moo 6, Ta Boonmee, Khao Jan, Chonburi

Thanks for pictures :

www.adeq.or.th

www.strivetosimplify.com

Lists	Price/Unit	No.	Total (Baht)
Waste bins	20,000	3	60,000
Waste management: Sub-district administration organization (1 Year)			15,000
Operation			7,500
Total			82,500

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"Green Box Waste" A hazardous waste bin for a healthy community