Since the amount of daily garbage in the municipality is predicted to rise to 150 tonnes, thanks to economic and social expansion as well as a rising number of housing estates, building communal waste-to-energy power plants was proposed as a solution to the garbage challenge.
Muang Ban Phru mayor Worawat Cheewa-isarakul said getting the private sector to invest in this project was also in line with the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)'s road map, which requires Songkhla to earmark five locations for garbage disposal.
In the first four locations, garbage will be used to generate power, Worawat said. These four locations are: Nakhon Hat Yai Municipality, which already has a power plant in place; Nakhon Songkhla Municipality; Muang Ban Phru Municipality; and Muang Sadao Municipality. The fifth location, Tambon Bo Tru Municipality, would use a landfill, he added.