Mitker

Hello,

We regularly have some printer toners/ink cartridges to get rid of.

I've been searching for a way to dispose of them a more sustainable way than just inflating the local landfill or turning them into toxic smoke.

The only places accepting (or even buying) them my searches returned were located in Bangkok:

http://www.turbon.co.th/environment-solution/recycling-solutions

http://hdinternational.co.th/index.php

(Canon.co.th proudly promotes virtuous recycling on its website but only offers a dead link to anyone interested in actual collecting locations)

Does anyone know about a proper recycling channel in Chiang Mai?

Thanks

When the trust the public puts on the produce safety is - and rightly so - at its lowest, trumpeting about hosting an international organic expo in Thailand is simply pointless.. except if the aim is just to artificially change perceptions without fixing the main underlying issue

totally aberrant situation

the petition that makes the CM governor uncomfortable:

https://www.change.org/p/นายกรัฐมนตรี-ร่วมลงชื่อขอเปลี่ยนผู้ว่าฯเชียงใหม่-ไร้ประสิทธิภาพในการแก้ปัญหาฝุ่นควัน

4 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Looking at the photos, it appears there are some small plastic cones that have been placed in the spaces between the larger concrete-filled orange blocks, allowing motorcyclists to move the small cones themselves and perform a U-turn

 

Unless I've missed something obvious, if the highways department placed all the concrete-filled blocks end-to-end - with no spaces between them, it would make it a lot more difficult to move them.

 

not sure there's any concrete-filled stuff here

3 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Dunno family grows em on our bit of land.

Papaya you see everywhere even growing side of road.

indeed they grow abundantly and without needing any care

I give most of mine to the chickens.. too many

4 hours ago, Beatriz said:

A friend of mine built a home-made water heater but it is not solar panel system. He just made use of the energy from the sun. He had these water pipes all painted black to absorb heat and these pipes run up and down like the car (old car system)cooling system. He also install mirrors that will reflect the sun light onto those pipes. Of course on raining day ( long hours of rain) then no hot water.

Well, he get hot water during the day and warm water at night. In the morning the water is not cold just normal room temperature. I quite like the idea.

Anyone seen this kind of home-made water heating system?

I put up and used such a system for several years.

Great and as cheap as you can get: just a PE pipe on the roof and a basic plastic storage water tank of 100L with insulation wrapped around (still warm in the morning): no pump or any mechanical/electrical stuff since the tank was slightly higher than the pipe: natural flow when heating (sun) and still when not. All DIY.

Why don't I use it anymore? The trees around the house grew until covering the roof, something I wanted since my air con can now fully retire.

I should move the system a little apart of the house

4 hours ago, rwill said:

what about a wind turbine?

 

Except in the South, Thailand is rather poor in wind. At least regular wind.

(I don't know OP's location)

A monthly storm doesn't help

EPA also first refused to connect us unless we'd pay for a transformer that wouldn't be our property (their infrastructure)

We refused of course and lived on a generator during 2 years until - without advance notice - we saw them putting the line and connect us

20 hours ago, geovalin said:

"(...) he did not prove to the court that he’s innocent,” Judge Rithy said.

I may be kind of old fashioned, but for me it's the other way around if we're talking about Justice

8 hours ago, joskeshake said:

For him no problem for safe driving, with his Rolls Royce and privat driver.

I had the opportunity to have a talk with him and several times with officials of the consular service

It has always been a relax chat with open and friendly people

Zero attitude

The opposite of what your post suggests

2 hours ago, webfact said:

the expat everyone wanted to get to know

always nice to read you're not "everyone"

6 hours ago, longtom said:

So why does everybody still laugh if I bring my reusable bag for shopping?

Sent from my ASUS_X008D using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

I do it for years

Never had a laugh in return

usually a surprised look first, then a "thank you"

Several plausible explanations for an old man to die in these circumstances

But virtually no one of these explains how TWO elderly persons with nothing in common die exactly the same night in the same cell

5 hours ago, webfact said:

FDA would not require the driver to pay compensation.

says a lot

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

I remember something similar in the South of France when a tanker went of the road and the gas being heavier than air spread down and over a camping site at lunchtime. The gas obviously reached a gas cooker where people were making lunch and the whole lot ignited.

Sorry, was Spain.

Los Alfaques

if I remember correctly

3 hours ago, madmitch said:

The Judge hasn't stated that there was no corruption involved, just that the person suing wasn't in a position to do so. An interested party, I assume, could be a competitor in the bid for the contract but I'd guess they've been paid off anyway.  

When corruption involves any official entity of a country (like AOT), every citizen is an affected party due to the public funds being somewhat diverted but also due to the public system being undermined in its missions and integrity.

Urgent for Kenya to introduce that magic concept of 'inactive post'

5 hours ago, overherebc said:

Ryanair??

Have you been watching UK news lately? Hundreds, yes, hundreds of flight cancelled due to industrial action.

Sure, I've seen that.

(And to be clear I would also add that I'm certainly not a fan of the company and mostly of his boss who shows a highly despicable mentality)

But the fact is that during the last decades, it's thanks to its profitability that the company has been continuously able to cannibalize the air transport in Europe (there the main reason I fly with them: they're now the only left on many destinations)

They're going into trouble now (it's recent) for the disdain with which they treat their staff (for a long time indeed). The same old arrogance of its boss

But my point is that economically, they've made a awful lot of money all along the years

Notwithstanding the fact that they had to follow the European regulations in term of wages and social security benefits that I suspect are much higher than here. Fuel is not cheaper there neither.

But even so they charge 1/2 price of Thai low cost airlines and I don't think they would have to double that to treat correctly their staff while remaining profitable. So there's something missing in the equation.