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: Received: 8 March 2023 / Approved: 10 March 2023 / Online: 10 March 2023 (11:36:12 CET)
How to cite:
Ammartsena, A.; Ditthapan, S.; Leenapaesanan, P. E-waste Management in Communities: Gaps in the Law and a Review of Existing Policies, Thailand. Preprints2023, 2023030195. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0195.v1
Ammartsena, A.; Ditthapan, S.; Leenapaesanan, P. E-waste Management in Communities: Gaps in the Law and a Review of Existing Policies, Thailand. Preprints 2023, 2023030195. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0195.v1
Ammartsena, A.; Ditthapan, S.; Leenapaesanan, P. E-waste Management in Communities: Gaps in the Law and a Review of Existing Policies, Thailand. Preprints2023, 2023030195. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0195.v1
APA Style
Ammartsena, A., Ditthapan, S., & Leenapaesanan, P. (2023). E-waste Management in Communities: Gaps in the Law and a Review of Existing Policies, Thailand. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0195.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ammartsena, A., Sinittha Ditthapan and Papichaya Leenapaesanan. 2023 "E-waste Management in Communities: Gaps in the Law and a Review of Existing Policies, Thailand" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0195.v1
Abstract
This article aims to investigate gaps in the law and policies on e-waste management in communi-ties of Thailand and suggests a guideline for improving, developing, and designing legal measures and state policies for more effective enforcement of the law on e-waste management in communities. The findings reveal that the currently applicable law of Thailand lacks effective approaches and rules for e-waste management. Also, there is not any implementation of key envi-ronmental principles for e-waste management in communities, such as the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) that requires manufacturing companies to take part in being responsible for disposal ex-penses or the Public Participation principle that requires users, manufacturers, distributors, and government agencies to take parts in disposing e-waste. As a result, problems of e-waste in com-munities of Thailand have been continuously increasing. According to such problems, the authors suggest that legal measures on e-waste management in communities should be specifically de-signed by implementing key environmental principles as a basis in determining formats and guidelines of e-waste management, especially participation of all sectors that can help in solving and reducing e-waste in communities that is harmful to health, sanitation, and environment.
Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development
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