webfact Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Up to 500kg of garbage washed onto national park beach daily By The Nation From 400 to 500 kilograms of garbage had been washed by waves onto a beach on Koh Rung in the Mu Koh Chang National Park in Trat each morning during the past week, the park chief said on Monday. Kosit Nilrat said he had assigned 17 officials to clean up the beach at Ao Bor of Koh Rung every morning for more than a week. The garbage, which landed along a 300-metre stretch of beach, mostly comprised plastic bags, plastic bottles and plastic bins dumped by humans into the sea. Kosit said the amount of garbage showed that a lot of tourists and people living on the coast had dumped garbage into the sea. Some of the bottles had words in foreign languages, indicating that they had floated in from neighbouring countries, he added. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30340736 -- © Copyright The Nation 2018-03-12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovelomsak Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 That's close to 2 kg per meter that is a lot of plastic. 500 kilo garbage 300 meter beach . Takes a lot of plastic to make a kg I think 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ezflip Posted March 12, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2018 Out of 500kg of garbage, how many kilos of cigarette butts? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliotness Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 I see they are trying to blame tourists and neighbouring countries for the garbage in the sea and playing down the fact that Thailand is ranked the 6th worse plastic polluter of the world's oceeans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAIBKK Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) Just go to Vietnam's beaches. A lot less garbage... Edited March 13, 2018 by PAIBKK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 It stems from the same mindset like to keep as much plastic around your new bicycle as possible for preservation. Hence, the beach will last eternally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farcanell Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 23 hours ago, webfact said: Some of the bottles had words in foreign languages, indicating that they had floated in from neighbouring countries, Foreigne exchange program. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) Man, that's a lot of Chinese tourists mucking the place up! "Some of the bottles had words in foreign languages, indicating that they had floated in from neighbouring countries, he added." Imported products? Edited March 13, 2018 by connda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisdoc Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Thai's living near the beach just empty their rubbish in the water. See it often. All the government cares about are tourists smoking on the beachSent from my SM-G900I using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamesgplayemail Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 With or without more trash, Koh chang is a dump anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamesgplayemail Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 10 hours ago, PAIBKK said: Just go to Vietnam's beaches. A lot less garbage... Interesting, have you been there many times ? Where to fly to reach it ? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Christmas13 Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 12 hours ago, eliotness said: I see they are trying to blame tourists and neighbouring countries for the garbage in the sea and playing down the fact that Thailand is ranked the 6th worse plastic polluter of the world's oceeans. Check out Bali 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAIBKK Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 14 hours ago, gamesgplayemail said: Interesting, have you been there many times ? Where to fly to reach it ? Thanks. Many ways to get there. Still not having a tour business, so find out yourself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justfine Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 On 14/03/2018 at 12:59 AM, gamesgplayemail said: With or without more trash, Koh chang is a dump anyway... Obviously never been there. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justfine Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 On 14/03/2018 at 1:00 AM, gamesgplayemail said: Interesting, have you been there many times ? Where to fly to reach it ? Thanks. They invented google for a reason 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farcanell Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 On 3/13/2018 at 10:00 PM, gamesgplayemail said: Interesting, have you been there many times ? Where to fly to reach it ? Thanks. Phu quoc has an airport.... it can be reached via vietjet out of ho chi min 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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