General Figure
Bangkok is a huge administrative area of more than 1500 square kilometers and today the population amounts to about 8.5 million people. The characteristics of this population are rather unknown and especially the commuters, the unregistered inhabitants, the migrants. In this area, the activity of waste collection is under the responsibility of the Cleansing Department, but it is also operated by each districts. There are 51 districts in Bangkok which manage waste collection.
Collection of Waste in BKK
Collection of raw wastes is done with a 2347 vehicles fleet, of which 1306 are currently utilised, and a 7007 persons workforce . Separate collection and sorting of recoverable materials is done anyway by the collectors on their own while collecting the waste . Segregation
of the valuable items is done whenever possible on the way between the street and the transfer station, therefore decreasing the productivity of the system.