ABSTRACT
The metropolis of Bangkok has an area of 1,568 square kilometers with a population of about 10 million registered and nonregistered residents. In its 50 districts comprising 2,000 communities, Bangkok generated about 9,500 tons per day of solid waste in 2002. The entire municipal solid waste management is under the jurisdiction of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), which arranges for primary collection, transport, and disposal. BMA collects and transports the municipal refuse from all its 50 districts with its existing infrastructure to the transfer stations and employs private transporters to haul the waste for final disposal at the landfills outside the metropolitan boundary. The responsibility of waste collection and transportation lies directly with the BMA. At BMA, there exist no formal processing and treatment facilities, though there are potentials for a higher degree of processing based on the waste composition.
