Rong Kwang Municipality

Thailand
Summary
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    Population 12812
  • km 2
    Area 74.0
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    GDP N/A
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Targets

Targets by Rong Kwang Municipality

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Actions
Recycle waste separation for community waste reduction - Rong Kwang Municipality
  • Start year: 2013
  • Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
  • Status: In operation

Municipality has promoted the recycle waste separation in order to reduce waste in 6 communities. Firstly, the community meeting was set up to explain about the project and encourages the household to separate the waste. Moreover, municipality also encourages to use the bag to store garbage instead of bin. The communities have an appointment with the recyclable waste buyers for every 3-4 months. The project is aim to separate recyclagle waste for 500kg and reduce the garbage bin about 750 bins.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Waste
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Good Quality Compost from Organic Waste toward CCM - Rong Kwang Municipality
  • Start year: 2013
  • Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
  • Status: In operation

There is about 3.2tons/day of organic waste. Hence, municipality has initiated this project in order to reduce amount of waste before bring it to landfill. Our target is to reduce 12.5 tons of waste per month. Municipality vans will collect the waste every two days and mixed together with dung and weed, then fermented for 3 months. The fertilizer from this process will pack and sell to farmers in the area. This project can produce the fertilizer about 25 tons/year.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Waste
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Community Forest Conservation - Rong Kwang Municipality
  • Start year: 2013
  • Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
  • Status: In operation

Municipality attempts to restore and increase the forest area in 6 communities to be a better watershed and carbon sink. The project opertation begins by observing the reserved and protected forest where has been invaded, and also public areas. Then, municipality has encouraged local people to participate in the project by donatation or partipated in various activities including trees planting, building the check dams, and soil conserving.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
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Electricity Saving Campaign - Rong Kwang Municipality
  • Start year: 2012
  • Type: Organizational / Governance
  • Status: Completed

"Municipal officers have together set up the measure for saving electricity in the office building to reduce the cardondioxide emission as follow: - turn on the air condition during only 10-12 am and 1-4.30 pm
- set the air condition temperature at 25 to 26 degrees Celsius
- examine and clean filter and compresser of air condition every 6 months
- Turn off computer screen if not in use more than 15 min and during lunch break"

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Sectors:
  • Buildings
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Inventories
Community inventories

GHG emission from Rong Kwang Municipality
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Government operations inventory

The Rong Kwang Municipality has reported 1 government operational inventory, since 2011. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2011, the Waste management and Transport are identified as key emission sources.

GHG emission from Rong Kwang Municipality
GHG inventory in 2011
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