webfact Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Bangkok generates "top trash" as figures reveal how much rubbish each Thai tosses per day! Picture: Sanook It has been revealed that Bangkok is one of the five most trash producing areas of the country. And now a figure has been put on how much rubbish each and every Thai produces each day. It is 1.14 kilos for every man, woman and child in the kingdom. Some 27 million tons of of trash were generated in Thailand last year. This amounted to 74,000 tons a day. Bangkok was responsible for 4.2 million tons of the garbage. While the 76 other provinces weighed in with 22.84 million tons. Sanook reported on the figures in the wake of pictures on social media after the devastating floods of Friday and Saturday when mountains of trash were seen strewn over roads and sidewalks. Much of it was blocking drains stopping flood water from draining away. Quoting figures from 2016 originally published in January of this year they said that last year's trash count was 190,000 tons up or a 0.7% increase on the previous year's. Bangkok, Chonburi, Korat, Samut Prakarn and Khon Kaen generate the most rubbish, they said. Source: Sanook -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-10-16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borzandy Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 3 hours ago, webfact said: figures reveal how much rubbish each Thai tosses per day! Is it a good reason to toss the rubbish in the streets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farcanell Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Lmao.... only a couple of days ago just weird was trying to tell me that Thailand ( Bangkok) didn't have an out of control littering problem hope your reading this thread mr weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 4 hours ago, webfact said: Quoting figures from 2016 originally published in January of this year they said that last year's trash count was 190,000 tons up or a 0.7% increase on the previous year's. Waiting for the 0.7% to be tied to the 7% tourist increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliotness Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 This is a major problem all Thai governments have failed to address, despite inernational advice. I guess it will take central Bangkok under several feet of water before anything happens. So sad ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1337markus Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Nice photo they couldnt have picked a better spot to throw rubbish on, a drain cover???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob12345 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 How does this (1.14kg pp) compare internationally and to neighboring countries? In the US its 2kg per person per day. Not too bad for BKK in that case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estrada Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 I helped write the Bangkok Solid Waste Master Plan in 1999. The figures should be shown as tonnes per day not tons/day (tons means short tons which is 907.19kg), we worked in metric tonnes and kgs/person/day. The figures are suspect, 20 years ago the figures for collection of garbage(wet waste) and rubbish(trash) Bangkok was 11,000tonnes per day. The above news story indicates that 11,500tonnes per day are generated. The problem is that there is more waste generated than the BMA can deal with and that tends to be fly tipped on any available waste land and not collected by the BMA. This builds up. There are less recyclables collectors these days so bins get overfull. The above story fails to point out that most of the rubbish found in the street during the floods are due to the waste bins floating and being knocked over due to flood waters. Also the ground floor of buildings being flooded and materials floating out which block also the drains. The drainage and flood prevention schemes need to prevent flooding occurring in the first place. Much of the flood prevention and waste disposal schemes still have to be completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWA Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 1 hour ago, eliotness said: This is a major problem all Thai governments have failed to address, despite inernational advice. I guess it will take central Bangkok under several feet of water before anything happens. So sad ! but it will improve significantly as soon as we stop smoking on the beaches!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lawrence Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 52 minutes ago, Estrada said: I helped write the Bangkok Solid Waste Master Plan in 1999. The figures should be shown as tonnes per day not tons/day (tons means short tons which is 907.19kg), we worked in metric tonnes and kgs/person/day. The figures are suspect, 20 years ago the figures for collection of garbage(wet waste) and rubbish(trash) Bangkok was 11,000tonnes per day. The above news story indicates that 11,500tonnes per day are generated. The problem is that there is more waste generated than the BMA can deal with and that tends to be fly tipped on any available waste land and not collected by the BMA. This builds up. There are less recyclables collectors these days so bins get overfull. The above story fails to point out that most of the rubbish found in the street during the floods are due to the waste bins floating and being knocked over due to flood waters. Also the ground floor of buildings being flooded and materials floating out which block also the drains. The drainage and flood prevention schemes need to prevent flooding occurring in the first place. Much of the flood prevention and waste disposal schemes still have to be completed. That's informed me Estrada. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike324 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 start charging for bags, problem solved. 7-11 can take the initiative, they seem to be a big polluter and they can certainly make an impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Triangle Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 I don't think that Bangkok is alone in the world to suffer from this problem, but as this is (and no doubt someone would inform me of that) a Thailand / Bangkok centric thread I won't dwell on that. I don't think that the authorities in Bangkok or anywhere else in Thailand do enough to discourage this disgusting habit, I live on the Darkside of Pattaya, a much nicer part of the world than ' in town' in my opinion, I think that what I will do in the next few days is take myself and my camera on a 3 km trip around my Moo Ban and see what the state of play is and post the pics on this thread, it's not gonna be pretty of that I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliotness Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 3 hours ago, Estrada said: I helped write the Bangkok Solid Waste Master Plan in 1999. The figures should be shown as tonnes per day not tons/day (tons means short tons which is 907.19kg), we worked in metric tonnes and kgs/person/day. The figures are suspect, 20 years ago the figures for collection of garbage(wet waste) and rubbish(trash) Bangkok was 11,000tonnes per day. The above news story indicates that 11,500tonnes per day are generated. The problem is that there is more waste generated than the BMA can deal with and that tends to be fly tipped on any available waste land and not collected by the BMA. This builds up. There are less recyclables collectors these days so bins get overfull. The above story fails to point out that most of the rubbish found in the street during the floods are due to the waste bins floating and being knocked over due to flood waters. Also the ground floor of buildings being flooded and materials floating out which block also the drains. The drainage and flood prevention schemes need to prevent flooding occurring in the first place. Much of the flood prevention and waste disposal schemes still have to be completed. That is the problem. They have a plan but no one capable of making theF plan work - in nearly 20 years. Not only Thailand but in many developing countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattayadgw Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Intead of spending trillions on submarines when is the Gov't going to wake up and get serious about trash in the Kingdom. They need to increase ALL TRASH FINES to the same as the cigarettes on beaches. They need to do a massive sustained advertising campaign to enlighten everyone in the country about the woes of trash, the fines involved, the destructive nature of plastics etc. etc. Until they spend some serious money on the problem the countries rubbish/waste problems will continue unabated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger70 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Thais don't have a problem with rubbish,,,,,They drop/trow it anywhere,,,,, (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancelot01 Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Why so many tossers in Thailand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madusa Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 3 hours ago, pattayadgw said: Intead of spending trillions on submarines when is the Gov't going to wake up and get serious about trash in the Kingdom. They need to increase ALL TRASH FINES to the same as the cigarettes on beaches. They need to do a massive sustained advertising campaign to enlighten everyone in the country about the woes of trash, the fines involved, the destructive nature of plastics etc. etc. Until they spend some serious money on the problem the countries rubbish/waste problems will continue unabated. Thailand must have submarines because they have such long coastlines, if Malaysia, Vietnam, or China attack Thailand who is going to proctect Thailand? Malaysia bought 2 french submarines capable of delivering surface to air missiles long range. So Thai must have. I agreed. I would hate to see Thailand running away like a dog with its tail behind the legs. I hope Thailand will send its marines to China for training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peperobi Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 And what happens with all the rubbish that getting illegal burn day by day? Stop the bad bags policy of Tesco, Big C, 7 Eleven, Family Mart and all the other shops that using always a lot of bags for few items. That will reduce the rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargeezr Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Bangkok is a huge city with millions of people living there and millions of tourists there as well. I have relatives that do recycling as much as they can. I have also seen many problems with packaging of products from countries like Japan ,that cause a lot of plastic garbage. I will blame Thais and tourists for not disposing this trash correctly. I have see this problem in many places in the world and not just Thailand and indeed Bangkok. Trash is a worldwide problem. Geezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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