Questions/Answers
Question 1
Please briefly describe the initiative, what issue or challenge it aims to address and specify its objectives. (300 words maximum)
In 2015, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province had 440,792 tons of residual waste, therefore it was ranked provinces with residual waste problems at the 11th improperly operated solid waste disposal sites in the country, and in 2017 the province was ranked No. 7 with the most litter in the sea.
The province had 21 local administrative organizations with three waste disposal sites categorized into three correctly operated waste disposal sites and 18 improperly operated waste disposal sites. In this regard, in the year 2021, the waste disposal site of the Pranburi Subdistrict Municipality Office which was the only cluster of waste disposal center of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, with 20 local administrative organizations participating in the dumping of garbage, located at the infantry center, Thanarat Camp, Moo 3, Khao Noi Sub-District, Pranburi District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province which had requested permission to operate since 2011, which would expire the lease in 2021. If not allowed to continue to operate, this will affect the province with an increase in the amount of garbage that is not properly disposed of approximately 280 tons per day and people will have no place to litter. Therefore, the province had developed a project “Free-dustbin Prachuap Khiri Khan”/“Prachuap Khiri Khan No Trash” by changing people's behavior and attitudes from the original opinion that solving the problem of solid waste was the duty of the local government organization and the province to be “The duties of everyone in the province” and the people changed from being payer to recipient. In other words, reduced waste disposal costs and increased revenue from material sales.
Question 2
Please explain how the initiative is linked to the selected category. (100 words maximum)
Project "Free-dustbin Prachuap Khiri Khan"/“Prachuap Khiri Khan No Trash” - is consistent with the type of Project 2, Enhancing the effectiveness of public institution to reach the SDGs as it is the contribution of knowledge services that lead to innovation, waste management services by collaborative partners from various sectors that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources to support the achievement of socially aware goals; and with a culture that does not create foreign matter into nature. This will save the environment and nature for the world sustainably.
Question 3
a. Please specify which SDGs and target(s) the initiative supports and describe concretely how the initiative has contributed to their implementation. (200 words maximum)
a. The work is consistent with the SDGs as follows:
- Goal 12: Having a Responsible Consumption and Production Plan linked to Article 12.5: Change Waste Management using an efficient technology, economical culture and self-reliant.
-Goal 13: Coping with climate change
Article 13.3: Education Development, raising awareness and human and institutional capacities on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact mitigation and early warning.
- Goal 14: Utilization of the oceans and marine resources, linked to Article 14.1. Prevent and reduce all types of marine pollution from microplastics.
- Goal 15: The use of terrestrial ecosystems, linked to Article 15.5, necessary and urgent action to reduce natural habitat degradation from the conversion of mangrove forests, degraded reserves to littering sites, or the wrong garbage disposal system
- Goal 17: Promote cooperation for the Sustainable Development Goals, linked to Article 17.6 Cooperative Partners from a wide range of sectors that will mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources to support a lack of tanks. Community waste that does not create foreign matter into nature, thereby preserving the environment and nature for the world sustainably.
b. Please describe what makes the initiative sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms. (100 words maximum)
b.
- Social dimension: Everyone in the province understands that solving the waste problem is the duty of everyone, raising awareness among the people to change the habit of waste littering.
- Economic dimension: There are 188 networked Free-dustbin learning centers as educational tourism sites, generating income from education tours for the province, which can estimate the income generated by visitors to the Free-dustbin learning centers around 3,800 people, net income 500 baht per person, totaling 1,900,000 baht
- Environmental dimension: Waste in 2020 reduced by 229 tons per day, reducing waste disposal costs by 117 million baht per year.
Question 4
a. Please explain how the initiative has addressed a significant shortfall in governance, public administration or public service within the context of a given country or region. (200 words maximum)
a. The project can reduce the problem of government waste management by adjusting the people's paradigm from aiming to throw it in the bin, to not creating garbage and not creating foreign objects into nature. This is a joint operation of all sectors, starting with the creation of the adoption of the change by disclosing the baseline data to provide information and listen to opinions on problems, including becoming a network partner to jointly edit, organize training courses to increase potential, develop knowledge on principles of No trash communities. Once accepted and supported, the change is jointly established by appointing a dustbin-less community standard assessment committee. dustbin-less school, Dustbin-less office, dustbin-less provincial organization to encourage a dustbin-less community, dustbin-less school, dustbin-less office, dustbin-less model local government organization, and invite everyone to play a role in thinking, expanding into other communities and constantly motivating network operations.
b. Please describe how your initiative addresses gender inequality in the country context. (100 words maximum)
b. Reducing gender inequality, leaving no one gender burden on waste management, especially in households, which is often the duty of housewives. But this project encourages everyone of all ages to share responsibility.
c. Please describe who the target group(s) were, and explain how the initiative improved outcomes for these target groups. (200 words maximum)
c. The project can reduce the problem of incorrectly disposed of waste according to the following academic principles:
Before operation in 2016
The province has 581 tons of waste per day and waste management expenses of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province in 2016 amounting to 177,937,363 baht per year. The waste disposal site of Pranburi Sub-District Municipality is located at the Infantry Center, Thanarat Camp, Moo 3, Khao Noi Sub-district, Pranburi District, covering an area of 200 rai, with 20 participants in the local government. Expected to be full in 2021.
After operation in 2020
The province has 351 tons of waste per day, the waste management expenses of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province in 2020 amounted to 113,161,210 baht per year, reducing the amount of waste by 229 tons per day, reducing the province's waste management budget of 117. Million baht per year. It can extend the service life of the waste disposal facility of Pranburi Sub-District Municipality for more than 2021 and can be self-sufficient if the Pranburi Municipality is not permitted to operate in 2021.
Question 5
a. Please describe how the initiative was implemented including key developments and steps, monitoring and evaluation activities, and the chronology. (300 words)
a) In waste management, it can be classified into 3 types: unusable, toxic and infectious, divided into 3 stages as follows:
1) Phase One in 2016 - 2018 started with the adoption of the change, by disclosing the Baseline Data to provide information and listen to opinions on the waste problem, including becoming a network partner to solve and improve the Support from all sectors, creating a leader to change the waste management method as a dustbin-free community of 1,240 people to take action to build 60 prototype school communities and office networks.
2) Phase Two in 2019: Changed action by appointing a committee for schools, communities, offices and local government organizations without dustbin in the province to promote the expansion of operations to the public, a prototype learning center and jointly improve methods and approaches to reduce the problem of waste as a dustbin-free community that was consistent with the provincial problem. Created 540 young seedlings without dustbin, 70 networks of community networks, schools, offices of local administrative organizations and additional dustbin-free temples.
3) Phase Three in 2020: Expand the results of the dustbin-free networks in the provincial areas, totaling 188 networks and provinces in the group of 50 schools to build the future of CONNEXT ED education under view if CP ALL companies.
b. Please clearly explain the obstacles encountered and how they were overcome. (100 words)
b. Obstacles
1) If leaders are not open to public listening prior to implementation, there will be no exchange of knowledge between relevant sectors.
2) The strength of the leader has created social measures for the people in society that will direct the behavior of the people of the community to take into account the interests of the public. If there is a change of a leader who does not understand the principle of a dustbin free community, it will result in unsustainable changes in social measures.
Question 6
a. Please explain in what ways the initiative is innovative in the context of your country or region. (100 words maximum)
a. The “Free-dustbin Prachuap Khiri Khan”/ “Prachuap Khiri Khan No Trash” project had not been undertaken by any organization before and with concrete achievements. It can be traced in the change of behavior and attitude of the people, from the original view that solving the problem of garbage was the duty of the government, changing to the "duty of everyone in the province", from the old method "Teaching people to throw trash in a bin hoping to throw away someone else's home" developed a new method “Manage to finish at our home. Least left to eliminate".
b. Please describe, if relevant, how the initiative drew inspiration from successful initiatives in other regions, countries and localities. (100 words maximum)
b.
The project was an innovative development of government waste management education services with the development of the 3Rs with physical waste classification including general waste, organic waste, recycled waste and hazardous waste. And there was a campaign to throw rubbish into the bin corresponding to the specified color to reduce the amount of waste. The problem was that the amount of waste did not decrease, therefore changing the method of waste classification according to the type of waste disposal technology, so waste can be classified into 3 types: unusable toxic and infectious.
c. If emerging and frontier technologies were used, please state how these were integrated into the initiative and/or how the initiative embraced digital government. (100 words maximum)
c. The project brings technology used as part of a project to increase open data disclosure that everyone can access and leverage on knowledge to reduce the amount of waste in households / entities until becoming free dustbin society as needed
- Facebook: The new dimension of Free Dustbin Prachuap Khiri Khan
- Line group: Free Dustbin School, Free Dustbin office, Free Dustbin local administration.
- Knowledge packs and quizzes to provide online certificates.
- Trash Free School Guide
- Waste management guideline according to the no-bin approach.
Question 7
a. Has the initiative been transferred and/or adapted to other contexts (e.g. other cities, countries or regions) to your organization’s knowledge? If yes, please explain where and how. (200 words maximum)
a. The province has divided the process of transferring knowledge or applying it in operations with other contexts into 3 phases as follows:
1) Phase One in 2016 - 2018: creating a leader to change the waste management method as a dustbin-free community of 1,240 people to take action to build 60 prototype school communities and office networks.
2) Phase Two in 2019: Expanding the results of operations, improving methods and approaches to reduce waste in a No trash community that was consistent with the provincial problem. Creating 540 young seedlings without dustbin, 70 networks of community networks, schools, offices of local administrative organizations and additional dustbin-free temples.
3) Phase Three in 2020: Expanding the results of the dustbin-free networks in the provincial areas, totaling 188 networks and provinces in the group of 50 schools to build the future of CONNEXT ED education under view if CP ALL companies.
b. If not yet transferred/adapted to other contexts, please describe the potential for transferability. (200 words maximum)
b. Since the start of the project until now, there have been a total of 379 agencies and lecturers with knowledge on how to reduce the amount of waste in households / agencies until there is no trash in the amount of 4,953 people. The project can be continued in its own agency, which is suitable for the context of each area.
Question 8
a. What specific resources (i.e. financial, human or others) were used to implement the initiative? (100 words maximum)
a. Resources used to operate the project
Financial
Province provided financial support to support academic work, lecturers, advice and expand the results of the tankless network totaling 2.33 million baht, as follows:
1) In 2018, 60 networks totaling 1.18 million baht
2) In 2019, 70 networks totaling 1.15 million baht
Human resource
The province created local speakers in cooperation with the government and private sectors, CP ALL and other companies to pass on knowledge on how to reduce the amount of trash until there were no trash bin for teachers, youth, civil servants, community leaders in the amount of 4,953 people.
b. Please explain what makes the initiative sustainable over time, in financial and institutional terms. (100 words maximum)
b. Factors that contribute to the sustainable development of the results
The highlight of the Free Dustbin Prachuap Khiri Khan is the absence of trash-bin in the community. The situation where people in the community do not throw the waste into the trash and keep the unusable, toxic and infectious waste parts safe and lead to technical disposal. And it is a circumstance that society recognizes and has a culture that does not create foreign matter into nature. This will save the environment and nature for the world sustainably.
Question 9
a. Was the initiative formally evaluated either internally or externally?
Yes
b. Please describe how it was evaluated and by whom? (100 words maximum)
b. Prachuap Khiri Khan Province received the following awards:
1)In 2019, Office of the Public Sector Development Commission awarded the Public Administration Participatory Award for the year 2019 in the category of effective change award for the province of Prachuap Khiri Khan for their work; a new dimension project. Free Dustbin Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.
2)In 2020, Office of the Public sector Development Commission awarded the "Excellent Level" award for service development to Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, "Free Dustbin Prachuap Khiri Khan Province (Concept of waste management as a community without trash)"
c. Please describe the indicators and tools used. (100 words maximum)
C.
The results were assessed on the satisfaction of the Free Dustbin Prachuap Khiri Khan Province(Concept of waste management as a community without bin trash). The number of population samples was 101 surveyed using the Online survey. Online satisfaction survey found that the satisfaction of the project participants was at a good level.
2) It is the implementation of the main authority or mission of an organization, or important government policy, or cabinet resolution. In the case of provinces, it must be the implementation of the provincial development plan or provincial groups.
d. What were the main findings of the evaluation (e.g. adequacy of resources mobilized for the initiative, quality of implementation and challenges faced, main outcomes, sustainability of the initiative, impacts) and how is this information being used to inform the initiative’s implementation? (200 words maximum)
d.
1.There are important wireless network partners including Free dustbin schools, Free dustbin communities / Free dustbin local government organizations, Free dustbin office, and Free dustbin temples from fiscal year 2016-2020, with 238 networks.
2.There are trainers to pass on knowledge on how to reduce the amount of waste until there is no dustbin totaling 4,953 people.
3.Produce 600 young seedlings that will be the future environmentalists, reduce the amount of waste to no rubbish, known as "the seedling without dustbin", issue a public waste management service, maintain beach cleanliness.
4.The amount of waste used by the province continues to increase. From 2015 - 2019, 324,276.95 tons of waste were utilized as follows: Tons per day
-Year 2015: 55.92
- Year 2016: 88.90
- Year 2017: 124.75
- Year 2018: 165.86
- Year 2019: 225.00
- Year 2020: 228.00
It can be calculated as the economic value to reduce waste disposal costs 324,276.95 tons x waste disposal cost 1,400 THB per ton, which is 453,987,730 baht, including people changing from payer to recipient from not having to buy compost.
Question 10
Please describe how the initiative is inscribed in the relevant institutional landscape (for example, how is it situated with respect to relevant government agencies, and how have these institutional relationships been operating). (200 words maximum)
The results of the promotion of cooperation from various sectors, mobilize and share knowledge and expertise in waste management according to the free dustbin community approach in each step has created cooperation with various agencies as follows:
1) Prachuap Khiri Khan Provincial National Resources and Environment Office, Prachuap Khiri Khan Provincial Local Government Promotion Office is a group of direct stakeholders. It is an important mechanism (Key Actor) in the preparation of the project by being involved in every step of the project implementation.
2) The main civil servants in the government sector, the inner teachers and community leaders are the secondary stakeholders.
3) Prachuap Khiri Khan Provincial Office, Prachuap Khiri Khan Provincial Office of Natural Resources and Environment are the promoters (Facilitation) to create a process of participation in the preparation of the provincial development plan and the project.
4) King Mongkut's Science Park at Waghor, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, is a Partnership, helping to be a lecturer in the process of disseminating information.
5) A group of schools to build the future of CONNEXT ED education under CP ALL.
Question 11
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts emphasis on collaboration, engagement, partnerships, and inclusion. Please describe which stakeholders were engaged in designing, implementing and evaluating the initiative and how this engagement took place. (200 words maximum)
The works are related to the project to pass on knowledge on how to reduce the amount of waste until becoming free dustbin and as a study visit as follows:
1. Create participation from government agencies in the provincial area as project operators of 188 agencies and speakers with knowledge in reducing the amount of waste until there is no dustbin, totaling 4,953 people, consisting of
1) 400 administrators of leading education institutions without dustbin
2) 3000 main teachers without dustbin.
3) Local Administration Organization without dustbin, 840 people
4) Free dustbin offices, 33 people
5) free dustbin seedlings or the youth who will be an environmentalist in reducing the amount of waste to no waste, 600 people.
6) King Mongkut's Science Park at Waghor, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, has 30 government officials and personnel serving free dustbin tourism, organizing a free dustbin training camp.
2. Build participation from the private sector in expanding to the CONNEXT ED future education group, a target school in the provinces under the view of CP ALL from 2020-2019 for 392 schools.
Question 12
Please describe the key lessons learned, and how your organization plans to improve the initiative. (200 words maximum)
The implementation of the project can create a better understanding of waste management concept of a No trash community by separating waste into 3 types: unusable, toxic and infectious to create as well human resource readiness, lead change “Seedlings without dustbin" and the learning resources without dustbin:
1) Thap Sakae Kindergarten previously had about 15 tons of waste per month. Currently, from the operating results, average 2 kg of waste per month has remained. It is the first free dustbin school in the province and Thailand.
2) Nong Phlap Sub-district Municipality, Hua Hin District, Prachuap Khiri Khan, can remove all the trash from the community and people can be self-reliant
3) King Mongkut's Science Park at Waghor, Prachuap Khiri Khan, has approximately 600000 people per year, with an average of 4 and a half tons of waste per month. Remaining less than 800 kg of waste per month, reducing waste disposal costs to about 500 baht per month.
Results from the project can be expanded to the school and the community, the CONNEXT ED education group, under the supervision of CP ALL for 392 schools.