Evaluation of Plastic Waste Management in Thailand Using Material ...

Group 1: key stakeholders that have high power and high leadership, which can
highly affect the plastic waste management e.g., MNRE, PCD, Ministry of Energy,
and DIW.
Group 2: stakeholders have the leadership and medium power, and this group
plays the role of moderate supporters or moderate opponents such as PIT, TPIA,
TBIA, and local administration.
Group 3: this group has a lot of resources, but do not have leadership to influence
plastic waste management by themselves e.g., RDF producers, waste shops,
pelletizing factory, oil recovery plants and NGOs.
Group 4: stakeholders have fewer resources and may or may not have leadership.
Most of them play the role of information providers, disseminators such as PTIT,
NIA, waste generators, waste pickers, and garbage banks.
The different important stakeholders have the different influence on the plastic waste
management. The importance and influence in Table 4.8 presents the overview of different
stakeholder groups.
Table 4.8 Importance and Influence of Stakeholders
High importance
Low importance
A
*PIT *Oil recovery plants
*Waste pickers RDF producers
*Waste shops *Local
administration
*Pelletizing factory
*Garbage banks
D
*PTIT *NGOs
*NIA
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B
C
*MNRE *TBIA
*PCD
*Ministry of Energy
*DIW
*Waste generators
Low influence High influence
Group A: Stakeholders with high importance and low influence will require
special initiatives to protect their interest. In case of plastic waste management
stakeholders like waste collectors, waste recyclers, and PIT affects the plastic waste
management, but do not hold high influence on overall plastic waste management
strategies. Nevertheless, these are important stakeholders in plastic waste
management.
Group B: Normally government and semi-government organizations fall under the
category of stakeholders with high importance and high influence. For instance
PCD, MNRE etc. These groups of stakeholders have the influence to even make
changes at policy level in order to influence plastic waste management scenario.
These stakeholders should have good relations with all the relevant plastic waste
management aspects and actors for the successful plastic waste management.
Group C: Stakeholders with low importance but high influence may be sources of
significant risk and must be monitored so that no negative influence occurs because