Waste management process of Nan municipality under the concept of zero waste society

Abstract

A study of waste management process of Nan municipality under the concept of zero waste society in Nan province used the qualitative methodology and collected data from the interview, the survey, and the observation without participation among the informants such as the administrative and performance sectors, government sector, entrepreneur, and household. The incidents and contents were analyzed. From the study found that the Nan municipality had the process of waste management following the criteria and had got a reward guaranteed from many institutes. The Nan municipality had been a model of learning area for solving the waste problem systematically and reduced the effects in time because of the full operation along with the adaptation of people behavior. In addition, the process performed in a whole sector caused a wide area participation under the method of waste management ang 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) for initially decreasing the waste. This process originated the social innovation for developing the people life quality, for example, Merit and Waste foundation, volunteer group, price measure and incentive, and the waste management legislation with strict participation and social responsibility. The result showed that The waste from municipality about 30 tons/day had been classified before trade and transformation for more values about 70% and the rest (30%) were landfilled to reduce the environmental effects and decrease the cost of removal. The Nan municipality would become the zero-waste society, if a burning method was replaced absolutely by a landfill. This process required the participation of municipality and people to develop the social innovation combining with the transformative technology and the zero waste reuse for being the zero-waste society.