Pattaya officials weigh burning, barging Koh Larn trash surplus

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Pattaya officials weigh burning, barging Koh Larn trash surplus

Koh Larn:--With still no long-term solution to Koh Larn’s garbage crisis in sight, Pattaya officials have agreed they will either buy new barges to transport it to the mainland or burn it in place.

 

Chonburi Deputy Gov. Chaichan Iamcharoen led the latest brainstorming meeting on the resort island’s trash troubles Dec. 13. Pattaya officials have spent most of this year talking and surveying the problem, but taking no action to actually solve it.

 

The latest meeting finally resulted in some agreement that a short-term solution is needed until a long-term solution can be found. The urgency comes from a prediction by former governor and now government advisor Pracha Taerat that Koh Larn will run out of dump space by early next year if nothing is done.

 

Pattaya City Council Chairman Anan Ankanawisan told the meeting that an earlier survey found there is 30,000 tons of garbage on the island and that its barges are now so dilapidated, they cannot move the waste to the mainland for disposal.

 

City spokesman Pinit Maneerat said the surplus is growing, with 10,000-12,500 people now visiting the island each day.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-officials-weigh-burning-barging-koh-larn-trash-surplus-195569

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2017-12-22

[champers]

If the burning option is taken, the smoke and noxious fumes will likely be blown back to Pattaya. Poetic justice.

[observer90210]

And if the area does get cleared of the trash dump, there will also be much to do to depollute the land underground as toxic residue must have penetrated the soil.

 

Edited December 22, 2017 by observer90210

[mercman24]

wait months and months and do jack shit, now its tourist season. *oh, lets burn the rubbish* only in Thailand

[jaywalker]

What a pack of greedy idiots.

 

Just rape & pillage the land then act surprised when it turns into a mess, and it's not like the mountain of garbage appeared overnight.

[fakename]

Let me guess, a match cost one baht, and barges cost millions, so Im guessing they will pick the match option. And since that was so easy, why not just burn it every year!

[worgeordie]

What a quandary,buy expensive barges,or burn it,

Pattaya get ready for smoke, like we have to do

every year ,up here in Chiang Mai.

regards worgeordie     Merry Christmas to all

[PETERTHEEATER]

The barge option has the option (Ahem...) of overturning en-route to the mainland performing a deep-sea dump.

[peperobi]

Oh yes, burn is a really good solution, Thailand is already one of the dirtiest countries in the world, a little bit more smog is sure not a problem.

What kind of peoples take a decision like that?

[Justgrazing]

4 hours ago, peperobi said:

Oh yes, burn is a really good solution, Thailand is already one of the dirtiest countries in the world, a little bit more smog is sure not a problem.

What kind of peoples take a decision like that?

Thai's .. On numerous occasions ..

[Basil B]

My concern is that if they barge it to the mainland a lot of it will end up in the sea...

[mikebell]

8 hours ago, Basil B said:

My concern is that if they barge it to the mainland a lot of it will end up in the sea...

They'll burn it here anyway, so do it in situ when there's a favourable wind.

[NanLaew]

22 hours ago, mercman24 said:

wait months and months and do jack shit, now its tourist season. *oh, lets burn the rubbish* only in Thailand

But cool season is traditionally and culturally Thailand's "burn your moobahn tip" season. All over the country, the first real dip in temperatures results in the garbage pile that has accumulated over the past 12 months being burned.

Edited December 23, 2017 by NanLaew

[SGD]

Even if they burn it, the residual contaminants will pollute forever more.

 

Plus, not all of it will burn, so what then ?

[fakename]

If it doesnt burn the first time, they will do it again! It will take weeks to burn all that garbage, and the wind will be changing many times, before its burnt, and wet garbage doesnt burn!

[DrTuner]

Ship it back to China. They can dump it on some peasants backyard, no ploplem.

[NewbieMe2018]

The entire province has no infrastructure to burn trash safely?

[stanleycoin]

oops

 

Edited March 5, 2018 by stanleycoin

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A troll post with misleading text and a very confused reply has been removed