Environmental assessment in recycling shop by garbage collect for worker and people living around Tha Thong, Amphoe Mueang, Phitsanulok Province

Abstract

The study was a descriptive research in order to assess environmental in recycling-shop and impact assessment from the areas which used opinion from workers at recycling shops and living around the shops in Tha Thong district, Phitsanulok Province, The assessment sheet of Pollution Control Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and impact assessment questionnaire were used. The data was analyzed using the de¬scriptive statistic, percentage. The three recycling shop in Tha Thong district did not pass in basic standard level, the standard of environmental was the most 57.15 percent, the standard of occupational health and safety standard 50.00%, standard operation 35.90%. The last standard of location building and sanitary found 29.17 percent. The topics could not pass the medium score from the workers, the size of entrance-exit, washbowls, workers clothes, signs recycle, the insect vector control, waste water treatment and the noise control. For environmental impact opinions, the recycling-shop had not the noise control (46.00%). For physical health impact, who live around recycling shops agreed that with their resident may be caused of infective disease 32.00 percent thought that the recycling waste business helped to reducing the solid waste and resource are budget to disposing the solid waste using due to save the resource and the capital for pro¬ducing in order to reuse the materials.