According to Thailand Environment Monitor (2003), “Thailand currently produces nearly 22
million tons of waste from residences, industries, businesses, and hospitals. Management of
this waste is a huge task that depends upon safe, hazardous, and infectious waste treatment
and disposal systems need to be built to keep pace with the growth in waste generation.”
Thailand King Mongkut’s University researchers Oyeshola and Shabbir (2008) investigated
that “between 2002 and 2005, an average of 1.1 million tons of construction waste was
generated per year in Thailand. This constitutes about 7.7% of the total amount of waste
disposed in both landfills and open dumpsites annual during the same period.”