MEKONG CONNECT - CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN THE MEKONG REGION VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1

In 2019, the Ministry of Environment (MoE) introduced the policy of National Circular Economy Strategy and Action Plan as a result of the proactive collaboration between multi-stakeholders such as the National Council for Sustainable Development under MoE and a team of policy experts of UNDP and SIDA (Ministry of Environment 2021). [...] To do this, the recent concept of Circular Economy (CE) essentially advocates the sustainable pathway or a new economic framework and process of production and consumption that reduce the use (extraction and mining) of new raw materials while increasing the reuse and recycling of the existing stock of materials in the circularity of a take-make-use-reuse involving the 4Rs dimensions of reduce, reu. [...] 5 The core principles of CE revolve around “the limits of resource use and waste” (Skene 2022), for example, seeking to recycle the waste to close the loop to prolong life and continuously create value for the stock of material inputs in the economy. [...] 5 Circular Economy in the Mekong Region: The Case of Thailand Ly Monypachpor and Chheng Kimlong Introduction The concept of circular economy has emerged in response to the problem of waste and low efficiency in using raw materials. [...] (Recreated) Medical Sector and Wellness The strategy includes the overall support of the country’s health care policy in promoting vaccines and clear drugs; capacity building in technology and human resources in research and development; production technology for vaccines and medical devices; clinical research; and registration of pharmaceutical products and medical devices.