SWAT-JWRF Joint Seminar:

Seminar on Municipal Solid Waste Management in Thailand- Challenges and Opportunities Organized by:
Japan Waste Research Foundation (JWRF); andSolid Waste Management Association Thailand (SWAT)
Objectives:
 The seminar will be organized to review the current situation of solid waste management inThailand, to identify the pressing issues, and to explore opportunities for Japan-Thailand
collaboration for achieving better solid waste management in Thailand.
 At the same time, the seminar aims at developing a foundation for future collaborative activities
between SWAT of Thailand and JWRF of Japan.
Date and Venue:
1. Date: January 16, 2020
2. Venue: Mayfaire A, The Berkeley Hotel Pratunam, Bangkok, Thailand
3. Language: Thai-Japanese (Simultaneous Interpretation)*Presentation Materials are prepared in English
Program: Moderator: Mr. Tomonori KIKUCHI, JWRF
14:00

Opening / Introduction of JWRF

Mr. Tomonori KIKUCHI
Director, JWRF

14:05

Keynote:Municipal waste management:
current situation and pressing issues

Dr. So SASAKI
Professor, Chuo University/
Chulalongkorn University

14:25

Introduction of SWAT
Implementation of 3Rs in Thailand - what has
been done and what needs to be done

Mr. Patarapol Tularak
Secretary General,
SWAT

14:45

Case Presentation 1
Introduction of initiatives to solve social issues
in the environmental field

Mr. Yasunori TANAKA
President and CEO,REMATEC Holdings Corporation

15:05

Case Presentation 2
Generation of Electricity and Compressed
Biomethane Gas (CBG) from Organic fraction ofMunicipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) using Dry
Fermentation Technology

Dr. Apipong Lamsam
Managing Director,
PAPOP Co., Ltd.

15:25

Case Presentation 3
Potential Challenges for Proper Waste
Management - Comparative study of municipal
and industrial solid waste in Thailand-Mr. Gen TAKAHASHI
General Manager,
JFE Engineering Corporation

15:45

Case Presentation 4Long-term Waste Management Master Plan for
Local Governments

Mr. Taisuke ODERAManager,Eight-Japan Engineering
Consultants Inc.

16:05

Coffee Break

16:30

QA and Discussion

Facilitator; Dr. So SASAKI

17:00

Closing

Dr. Chindarat Taylor
Vice President, SWATABOUTJWRF
JWRF, or the Japan Waste Research
Foundation was established in 1989 as a
non-profit organization working in thepublic interest to realize a recycle-basedsociety in and outside Japan.
According to the Charter for theestablishment of JWRF, the Foundation
has worked in the following three areas:
R&D on waste management and 3R
Dissemination
ofits
R&D
achievements to the publicContribution for solving problems ofwaste management and 3R outsideJapan.
In 2017, JWRF decided to change its
internal organizational structure tostrengthen activities for solving problems
of waste management and 3R indeveloping countries, and thus created acenter specifically working for such thechallenge.
Activities of the center include:Mobilizing waste management and3R technologies of Japan’s privatecompanies to Asia and otherdeveloping countries,
Organizing seminars in and outside
Japan, and
Capacity development of engineersof local governments in developing
countries.

ABOUT SWATThe Solid Waste
ManagementAssociation
Thailand(SWAT), established in September 2015as a non-profit organization, has
objectives to develop and support
activities related to solid waste
management,enhancewastemanagement practices and technicalstandards, coordinate and cooperate withallstakeholders
domestically andinternationally on waste management andto disseminate knowledge and raiseawareness among the public on waste
and environmental management.
Reference activities include:• Organized
ASEAN
Waste
Management Forum 2016 and 2017with speakers from more than 10
countries and more than 100 delegates.
• Organized Seminars and Site Visits on
Waste to Energy including BMA(Bangkok) and EEP (Samut Prakarn).
• Research and policy formulation
project on MSW, commissioned by the
Department of Local Administration.
• Co-hosted international workshops
such as “3RINCs” with JSMCWM andKSWM
and“Regional
Waste
Management”
withEconomicResearch Institute for ASEAN and East
Asia and JETRO.
• Presented in local and internationalseminars organized by e.g. UN
Environment,UNIDO,
Waste
Management Association of Malaysia(WMAM), United Nations University,
Asia Pacific Waste and Environment
Alliance (APWEA).

PARTICIPANTS(Facilitator)
So SasakiProfessor
Chuo University/
Chulalongkorn
University(Speakers)
Patarapol Tularak
Secretary General
Solid Waste Management
Association Thailand(SWAT)

Yasunori TANAKACEOREMATEC Holdings
Corporation

Dr. So SASAKI is a professor at Faculty of Economics, Chuo
University. He has also a visiting scholar, Faculty of Economics,
Chulalongkorn University until March, 2020. He has studied
waste management and recycling policy in Thailand andenvironmental business in the Asian region since 2001. He ismember of SATREPS “The Project for Formation of a Centre ofExcellence for Marine Plastic Pollution Studies in the Southeast
Asian Seas”. His recent publications are “Economic analysis of theenvironmental services liberalization among APEC members”,“Issues with Thai WEEE (Waste Electrical and ElectronicEquipment) recycling bill: Comparison with other Asiancountries”, and so on.

Mr. Patarapol Tularak is the Secretary General of Solid Waste
Management Association Thailand (SWAT) and also a ProjectManager at Padaeng Industry (Public) Co., Ltd. He has more than
20-year experience in environmental management with the focus
on hazardous waste. He was in charge of developing householdhazardous waste management system for local governments,
drafting the E-waste law and was a key person in the Basel
Convention Focal Point while he worked at the Pollution ControlDepartment. His recent works include promoting 3Rs and waste
to energy in Thailand.

Born in Osaka in 1973. After graduating from Keio University, hegained experience as a waste consultant before joining
REMATEC.
He participated in a system design proposal for the Iwate-Aomori
Prefectural Border Waste Recovery Project and received an orderfor consulting and construction management.
The company designs and builds the world's first subcritical water
plant in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, and had been recycled
waste using subcritical water technology. In the Great East Japan
Earthquake Reconstruction Project, we led the project team,formulated a disaster waste treatment plan, and implemented areconstruction support project to protect the lives andenvironment of local residents.
Since 2014, he has been the President and CEO of the REMATEC
Group and has been involved in businesses that contribute tosolving social issues in the environmental field, such as resource
recycling and global warming countermeasures, mainly in Asia.

Apipong Lamsam
Managing Director
PAPOP

Apipong Lamsam has doctoral of engineering from Asian instituteof technology in Environmental Engineering And Management(EEM). He has over 10 years experience in development of waste
to energy projects particularly on biogas and Municipal Solid
Waste (MSW) as well as involving the design of biogas production
plants, biogas cleanup systems for MSW, organic waste andvarious industrial wastewater. He is currently the Managing
Director of Papop which is one of leading renewable technology
providers in Thailand.

Gen TAKAHASHI
General Manager,JFE EngineeringCorporationGen Takahashi joined Nippon Kokan Ltd. (present JFEEngineering Corporation) in April 1990. After many years’
experience in various business fields in this Company; production
control at factory, marketing for sewage treatment plant project,management of sales branch, administration and secretary of thecompany,etc., he has worked for management and businessdevelopment as a Director of PT. JFE Engineering Indonesia(subsidiary company of JFE Engineering) in 2011 and 2012. Since
April 2013, he has been in charge of global business developmentwith collaboration with ministry, local government, internationalorganizations,etc., especially in the field of waste-to-energy.

Taisuke Odera
Manager,InternationalDepartment, Eight-Japan
Engineering Consultants
Inc.

Taisuke Odera is a Manager for the International businessdevelopment at Eight-Japan Engineering Consultants Inc. withwaste management consulting background, and working on
master planning, feasibility study, financial planning, investment
due diligence, and designing for the waste management facilities
such as landfill, WtE, Renewable Energy projects over 15 years. In
addition, he had been based in Bangkok for 6 years from 2013 to2019 for operation of Bangkok office of the company.

Chindarat Taylor
Vice President,
Solid Waste Management
Association Thailand,
SWATFounder and Director,
Resource Efficiency
Pathway(Moderator)
Tomonori KIKUCHI
Director
International PartnershipDepartment,
Support Center forOverseas Waste
Management BusinessJapan Waste Research
Foundation （JWRF）

Dr. Chindarat Taylor is the Founder and Director of Resource
Efficiency Pathway, an environment and infrastructure
consultancy advising on the development of waste and waste toenergy infrastructure internationally, including the UK, Thailandand Australia. Her work focuses on strategic advice including
project viability and deliverability.
She has over twenty years’ experience including management of
three large joint ventures for BP/Amoco and various operations
for ICI. She was a director at the UK Environment Agency where
she established the innovative Pathway to Zero Waste Program
involving 72 municipalities.
Chindarat is Vice President of the Solid Waste Management
Association of Thailand. She is also a Chartered Waste Manager(MCIWM) of the Chartered Institution of Waste Management,
UK. She won an award as one of the 51 Most Impactful Green
Leaders – a Global Listing at the World CSR Congress in February
2019.

Tomonori KIKUCHI joined JWRF in 2017, dispatched fromJICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) as a secondment.
He worked mainly for JICA for more than 30 years, in charge ofmany sectors in the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia (FormerSoviet) and other areas for Japanese ODA projects. Also He has
many experience of reconstruction support through social
development in Palestine , Afghanistan, Mindanao and otherconflict affected areas.
Overseas assignment: (JICA and Japan Embassy)
Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan、Philippines etc.
Currently working for Support Center for Overseas Waste
Management Business of JWRF, in charge of promotion ofJapanese companies’ waste management business, such assupport for F/S (Feasibility Study )of WtE (Waste to Energy) in
foreign countries etc.