Two Men Arrested as For-Hire Rubbish Dumpers

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – Two men were caught by Chiang Mai Municipality inspectors illegally dumping garbage on Chotana Road.

 

Chiang Mai Municipality has been receiving complaints about illegal dumping of garbage on Chotana Road from local people in the neighbourhood. After watching CCTV, the inspectors caught two male suspects on January 25th around 10pm, Worapot Buasuk, 30, and Kritsana Junta, 27. They confessed that they were hired to dump rubbish, mostly food waste from restaurants, on side roads in Chiang Mai Municipality area. They reportedly worked every other day around 10pm using a motorcycle with a sidecar and would dump four to five rubbish bags of waste at each spot. They were charged under the Act on the Maintenance of the Cleanliness and Orderliness of the Country. The inspectors are now investigating the person who hired them.

 

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Thainess at its best

Just wondering how much restaurants save, and how much these idiots could

possibly make. Name and shame the restaurants involved. 

Rubbish creation.... no ploblem.

Rubbish disposal.... big ploblem

 

Chiang Mai is to far away from the ocean ????.... maybe thailand 5.0 will recognize this issue... and move it

4 hours ago, 1337markus said:

Thainess at its best

Are you saying that there are no fly tippers in your own country?

Where the price of official rubbish disposal is considered too high and a cheaper

option is offered by a couple of chancers, then some folk would be tempted to save a few baht.

 

This isn't really a very good example of "Thainess"

5 hours ago, 1337markus said:

Thainess at its best

What does that mean?

Thousands more of those

On 1/27/2018 at 9:04 AM, quandow said:

I'm at a loss as to why you posted this.  Fly tipping (as it's known as in the UK, at least) is a perfectly logical if totally anti-social and unacceptable business.  Rubbish disposal costs money so the places struggling to keep the price of a bowl of noodles down to 30 baht cut corners and find the cheapest contractor.

 

Understandable and reprehensible it is, but dumb?  At least the CCTV cameras are providing a relatively easy way for the police to stop this, until the guys doing it learn where the surveillance is.

Food waste can be composted and in a tropical environment, decomposes very quickly. They just need to bury it in an appropriate spot.

Food waste can be composted and in a tropical environment, decomposes very quickly. They just need to bury it in an appropriate spot.

These days in more (dare I say it) enlightened countries, food waste is increasingly handled by companies/municipalities to recycle in an appropriate way. eg, cooking oil is collected and recycled for use as fuel, food scraps/waste is collected for composting and used as fertiliser.
To do this you will need a cultural change. Not sure this can happen, perhaps it could be included in Prayut's latest idea to inculcate Thainess into the population . . .

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37 minutes ago, bheard said:

 

These days in more (dare I say it) enlightened countries, food waste is increasingly handled by companies/municipalities to recycle in an appropriate way. eg, cooking oil is collected and recycled for use as fuel, food scraps/waste is collected for composting and used as fertiliser.
To do this you will need a cultural change. Not sure this can happen, perhaps it could be included in Prayut's latest idea to inculcate Thainess into the population . . .

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I believe it can be done. I wouldn't wait for Prayut to do it. It's something that's got to be done locally, and mostly through setting an example.
In the US, we've seen double-"stream" waste disposal (recyclables and landfill) here for a long time. Now we are seeing more and more triple-stream (recyclables, compost and landfill).
Street markets may be the best place to educate locals.