Big businesses must comply with waste-management law
The Pollution Control Department has informed about 900,000 potential polluters, such as shopping complexes, large hotels, hospitals and other businesses, that they need to start compiling their wastewater treatment records and report the results to relev
This mandatory measures will be enforced from August 2, PCD’s director general Wichien Jungrungruang said yesterday.
He was speaking at a meeting held with factory owners, management officials from industrial estates and residential buildings, hotels, schools, petrol stations and owners of large pig farms at the PCD headquarters.
This extra measure, which complies with the 1992 Environmental Quality Protection and Prevention Act’s Article 80, requires all polluters to file a report on their wastewater treatment and maintenance with the PCD every month.
“We have learned that more than 890,512 businesses as factories, industrial estates, residential buildings, hotels, large schools, petrol stations and large pig farms need to comply with the law,” he said.
PCD also found that more than 1,000 state and private hospitals with at least 30 beds nationwide did not run a wastemanagement system. Wichien said his agency would speak to the Public Health Ministry and ask that it instruct these hospitals to start operating their wastemanagement system.
“We will conduct random checks on hospitals, buildings and factories to see if they are complying with the law,” he added.
Though the PCD does not have the authority to close down businesses that do not comply with the law, it can file a complaint with the Department of Industrial Works, which can then take the required steps.
