Keeping Phuket’s beaches clean

By The Nation

 

 

The Phuket Hotels Association is encouraging locals and visitors to conserve the marine environment with the “Hearts with Hands, Keep Phuket Clean” beach clean-up event on September 16.

 

Organised under the umbrella of the Environmental & Sustainability Working Group, the event draws millions of volunteers across the globe to fight ocean pollution in support of the International Coastal Clean Up Campaign. 

 

“We are focused on three main areas: Phuket branding, local education and environmental protection. By cleaning up our beaches we are promoting Phuket as a global beach destination brand and we are also educating local communities, tourists and island businesses on the need to take care of the island’s natural assets while preserving the environmental health of the ocean,” said Anthony Lark, president of the Phuket Hotels Association and the managing director of Trisara. 

 

Plastic is choking the world’s seas and putting marine life in danger. Some 46,000 items of debris now occupy every square mile of ocean and plastic is found in 62 per cent of all sea birds and 100 per cent of sea turtle species tested after their demise.

 

The Phuket Hotels Association recognises the need for action and is lobbying local community groups, schools, residents, expatriates and tourists to join forces and clean up garbage from the beaches around the island before it reaches the sea. 

 

Learn more at www.PhuketHotelsAssociation.com.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/thailand/30326192

 

 

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Perhaps they should start by ensuring that their waste water and sewage do not contaminate the beaches and sea.

 

Been doing it for years so have a nerve coming out with this nonsense.

Also a bit rich asking tourists to clean up trash while on holiday especially western tourists who pay through the nose for everything and are the least likely to dump trash ...Thai and Chinese tourists on the other hand......

I spoiled my coffee after reading the word 'keeping' in the headline.

China, Indonesia, Thailand, lead the world in dumping plastics

into the ocean. Take a serious step forward and ban plastic

bags, straws, and utensils. Everything else is lip service to

the problem.

On 9/9/2017 at 5:19 PM, xylophone said:

Perhaps they should start by ensuring that their waste water and sewage do not contaminate the beaches and sea.

 

Been doing it for years so have a nerve coming out with this nonsense.

 

I agree.

 

They seem to think people are worried about some plastic bags etc, and don't care about the brown fecal matter they are swimming in. 

 

Talk about diverting attention from the real problem.