It has been publicized that waste management in Thailand still poses a serious problem. Many provinces and cities are facing critical solid waste management problem. Environmental deteriorations derived from improperly managed solid wastes have been detected. A lot of specific problems have been reported such as open dump sites with fires and smoldering smoke causing health impacts from air pollutants. Leachate from dumping of wastes has been found polluting soil and ground water. Hazardous wastes have been dumped together with general municipal solid wastes. Critically accumulated mismanaged wastes were found in such provinces as Ayuthaya, Lopburi, Nakornprathom, Saraburi, Pathumthani, Samutprakarn, etc.
If you were assigned to investigate and develop a plan to resolve the critical problems of such mismanagement of solid and hazardous wastes in one of those provinces, how would you respond to such situations? Please select an example of a province or city with such real problems to work in and elaborate your plan and recommendations for proper waste management. The main idea is to provide sustainable management of solid and hazardous wastes for the situation you selected to address as a real life situation.