General as well as the municipal solid waste (MSW) management in Thailand is reviewed in this paper. Topics include the
MSW generation, sources, composition and trends. The review, then, moves to sustainable solutions for MSW management and
sustainable alternative approaches with an emphasis on an integrated MSW management. Information of waste in Thailand is also
given at the beginning of this paper for better understanding of later contents. It is clear that no one single method of MSW disposal can
deal with all materials in an environmentally sustainable way. As such, a suitable approach in MSW management should be an
integrated approach that could deliver both environmental and economic sustainability. With increasing environmental concerns, the
integrated MSW management system has a potential to maximize the useable waste materials as well as produce energy as a by-product.
In Thailand, the compositions of waste (86%) are mainly organic waste, paper, plastic, glass and metal. As a result, the waste in
Thailand is suitable for an integrated MSW management. Currently, the Thai national waste management policy starts to encourage the
local administrations to gather into clusters, to establish central MSW disposal facilities with suitable technologies and reducing the
disposal cost based on the amount of MSW generated.