Success Factors for Industrial Waste Management in Industrial Areas

Abstract

This research aims to study success factors for industrial waste management in industrial areas and to obtain significant weights of the success factors. The research starts with squeezing success factors for industrial waste management from theories and related literatures and then test the factors by using 6 experts in this areas. 4 main factors and 10 sub factors are the results of the analyses. A questionnaire based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) concept is constructed and used to 9 experts. The 9 experts are consultants of the nine industrial areas. The nine industrial areas were pilot areas of eco-industrial town development including industrial areas in the provinces of Rayong, Chonburi, Pathumthani, Saraburi, Prachenburi, and Ayutthaya. Finally, the technique of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to analyze and the result shows that the success factors of waste management in industrial area are laws and regulations enforcement, realization of the waste management significance, and governmental supports and policies with the weights of 29.878, 27.660, and 12.521, respectively.