Siting industrial waste land disposal facilities in Thailand: A risk based approach

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5644422

Fingleton, D J; Habegger, L; Peters, R; Tomasko, D; Liengcharernsit, W; Hastings, P; Boonraksa, C; Phantumvanit, D; Smith, K; Carpenter, R ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)

The Thailand Industrial Works Department (IWD) has established a toxic industrial waste Central Treatment and Stabilization Center (CTSC) for textile dyeing and electroplating industries located in the Thonburi region of the Bangkok metropolitan area. Industrial waste is treated, stabilized, and stored at the CTSC. Although the IWD plans to ship the stabilized sludge to the Ratchaburi Province in western Thailand for burial, the location for the land disposal site has not been selected. Assessing the relative health risks from exposure to toxic chemicals released from an industrial waste land disposal site is a complicated, data-intensive process that requires a multidisciplinary approach. This process is further complicated by the unique physical and cultural characteristics exhibited by the rapidly industrializing Thai economy. The purpose of this paper is to describe the research approach taken and to detail the constraints to health risk assessments in Thailand. issues discussed include data availability and quality, effectiveness of control or mitigation methods, cultural differences, and the basic assumptions inherent in many of the risk assessment components.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/EH
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5644422
• Report Number(s): CONF-8904232-2; ON: DE90002271
• Resource Relation: Conference: Pacific basin conference on hazardous waste, Singapore (China), 2-7 Apr 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
GROUND DISPOSAL
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
SITE SELECTION
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
THAILAND
TOXICITY
ASIA
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
INDUSTRY
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
510500* - Environment
Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (-1989)
320604 - Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization- Municipalities & Community Systems- Municipal Waste Management- (1980-)