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Thammasat Zero Waste Policies

Since 2011 until present day, Thammasat University implemented a set of announcements, policies and activities to minimize disposable items as a part of Thammasat Zero Waste Policies. Here are some of the concrete examples:

  • Since 2011, Thammasat has Implemented Paperless meeting policy: Policy to replace hardcopy printing with e-document in university and faculty level meetings.
  • In 2019, Thammasat has policy on materials used for ceremonial pedestal trays, to replace flowers with useful items such as stationary and small sport equipments, so that those items can be later donated to schools around the area
  • Other projects to reduce the use of deposable items include: ‘Pinto’ (reusable Lunch box) project / reusable cloth bag project; minimization of disposable items from events / Thammasat Refill Shoppe Project
  • Online meeting policy
  • Thammasat issued ‘Zero Waste Campus Handbooks’ as a tool for the whole campus to apply to their operation.
Please see related documents here

flowers to stationary pedestal policy – Pridi Day 2019Download
Meeting Minute – Paperless Meeting 2011Download
TU-zero-waste campus handbookDownload
thammasatrefillshoppe_project2019Download
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Thammasat Recycling Policy

Thammasat has measurement of waste through the management of ‘garbage recycling bank policy’, which uses application from SCG (private sector) to calculate amount and price of recycled items sold, and through the ‘campus garbage facility, which is outsourced and required monthly reports sent to university.

**note: the waste from campus are segregated for recycling and the rest converted to REF. None sent to landfill.

Please see related documents here:

Campus garbage facility contract – THDownload
SCG “Koomkha” application MOU – THDownload

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Thammasat Waste Management Policies

Thammasat has policy on waste management, especially for hygienic aspects/ chemical waste from labs/electronic waste in 2019 and 2020. The policy runs incorporating with outside parties, including private sectors and other universities. Thammasat is one of five active university nodes, covering the Central Region of Thailand for training chemistry lab safety under the National Project: Enhancement of Safety Practice of Research Laboratory in Thailand.

MOU between Thammasat University and Advance Wireless Network (AWN) on E-WSte was effective in 2018.

TU-AWN MOU 2018 – THDownload

MOU between Thammasat University, other universities, and the National Research Committee of Thailand (NRCT) on the Enhancement of Safety Practice of Research Laboratory in Thailand in 2018 and 2019

MOU-TU-NRCT 2018 – THDownload
MOU-TU-NRCT 2019 – THDownload
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Thammasat Ethical Food Source Policies

Thammasat has policies to ensure vegetables and meat products in all canteen must be GAP grade. University provide on-campus vegetable farm where non-chemical growing process is mandatory. Planting materials and fertilizers are also produced on campus to ensure non-chemical conditions.

–Solar Cafe, on-campus restaurants is a showcase for Thammasat’s policy on etheical xourcing of food and supplies

– On-campus Organic Farming is another clean food source that reflects Thammasat’ policy

– Thammasat has ‘Green Market @ TU Hospital’, started since 2006 with the policy to ensure that food and items sold here are from local communities and grown with safety process, non-chamical uses.

Please see related policy documents here:

Cantee regulation-2562-THDownload
Pesticide-free farming project_THDownload
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The SDG-Foresight project for the Thailand SRI Strategic Plan

From March to June 2020, SDG Move undertook policy-focused research for Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), an organization under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. It was the analysis of data and the design of future scenarios to support the science research and innovation plan. TSRI wants this development plan to be the catalyst of change that would steer Thailand to progress more sustainably and inclusively along the line of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The research was conducted at two levels, namely national and regional level. Foresight (i.e. Horizon Scanning and Delphi) was used as the research methodology. Data collection was conducted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the national level, the SDG Move research team did the horizon scanning by reviewing secondary data related to all SDGs from national and international data source, as well as scanning social signals appearing in social medias and news. Then 60 experts were selected and asked to do adapted Delphi surveys. The surveys were conducted two rounds. The first round was to verify the critical sustainability issues found from the Horizon Scanning. The second round was to prioritize the issues, using two main criteria namely the level of importance and the level of policy readiness.

Moreover, SDG Move also worked with 6 regional teams, using the same methodology, to obtain each region’s crucial sustainability challenges, as well as to assess knowledge stock and gap for these challenges. The findings were used as inputs for TSRI strategic plan for budget year 2021.

Please see the report here:

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Participatory body for stakeholder engagement for the “Best Community Welfare Fund/organization Awards”

In 2019 to January 2020, Puey Ungpakorn School of Development Study (PSDS) initiated the Award giving project: the “Best Community Welfare Fund/organization Awards”. The process for the organization of this project was operate by a participatory body for stakeholder engagement, involving partners at several levels.

The objectives of the awards were (1) to give a recognition and admiration for the outstanding community welfare fund/organizations; (2) to strengthen the network and the organizations using the Awards as a kind of experience sharing platform: and (3) to increase public awareness on the social welfare policies in accordance with Puey Ungpakorn ideas.

The partner organizations include Foundation for Thailand Rural Reconstruction Movement Under the Royal Patronage, the National sub-committee for the promotion of community fund, the National Community Fund Network, Moral Center, Community Organizations Development Institute, and Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.

The awardees received funding to strengthen their community welfare fund. For running this program, the participatory process was divided to 3 levels, provincial level, regional level, and national level. It involved so many multi-stakeholders to promote and support program.

PSDS has been a part of the National sub-committee for the promotion of community fund since 2016, providing academic support and research to the committee. Asst. Prof. Jitti Mongkolchaiaranya, the dean from 2016-2020, had been a member of the committee and brought PSDS and its expertise into the sub-committee since.

Please see the detail of the award here:

welfare-manual2561Download
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SDG Move phase II

SDG Move, under Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, was operating as a Strategic Research Issue (SRI) Unit number 14 on SDGs for Thailand Research Fund (TRF), one of the largest granting agency at the time. The role for SDG Move as SRI unit was to follow the implementation and academic progress regarding SDGs both at national and global level, and specify areas in which TRF should grant research fund.

In the period between 2018-2019, SDG Move focused the areas of research grant on the theme of Localizing SDGs as well as base-line research on SDG 3, 6, 10, 11 and 17. It also analyzed the Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) strategic plan for budget year 200 against the SDGs. It is found that the TSRI strategic plan for budget year 2020 was quite imbalance as the plan was focusing on economic policies.

Please more details on SDG Move here, and its official website here.

Please the report of SDG Move phase II here:

SDG Move Phase II_ THDownload
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No Gift Policy

Since December 2018, Thammasat University officially announced the university announcement on “Practices for giving and receiving gifts” in order to ensure transparency and good governance.

Essentially, the university (especially university and faculty executives and staff) must not receive gifts or anything convertible to financial value from partner of contract, companies, or any individuals who may have direct or indirect interest with the university, especially in contract signing or continuation, contract inspection, or any other kind of interest. The university, instead, encourages giving “blessing”.

In terms of giving gifts, the university clearly states that it is not necessary to produce or acquire any gifts to give to other departments or faculties. Giving gifts in special occasions such as New Year could have an exception when the gifts are the faculty’s souvenirs or when there is a special reason to support sustainable development or community products.

Please see more details here:

No Gift Policy_THDownload