VIDEO: BBC report on Thailand's plastic problem

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

[bluesofa]

I know that I keep posting this link in topics about plastic, plastic bags and recycling.

The way I see it, the more that what (at the moment anyway) seems to be a possible alternative that can be produced locally, then it must surely be worth trying to make the public aware of it.

 

So here it is again:

There could be a big opportunity to increase the sale of cassava here if the project in Indonesia is anything to go by, using cassava to produce biodegradable bags, looking just like a plastic bag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXklBP53VT4

[lovelomsak]

Thailand could clear the plastic use real quick if they returned to their old way of packaging 

  Thailand used to be a very mush a recycle country. Every thing they used was recyclable. They wrapped things in leaves,made every thing from natural things that would decompose with no problem. They could eat something throw it on the ground or in the river and it simply decomposed and went through the cycle. 

   Now they have plastic but still practice the same throw every thing on the ground or in the river. Primitive understanding in a new world.

  Thai's will not go back because of face and pride.  They feel old ways are to provincial and look low so. No one wants to look like they are backwards and living like a village person.

 So little will change. Money also trumps every thing else.

[Gandtee]

17 hours ago, lovelomsak said:

Thailand could clear the plastic use real quick if they returned to their old way of packaging 

  Thailand used to be a very mush a recycle country. Every thing they used was recyclable. They wrapped things in leaves,made every thing from natural things that would decompose with no problem. They could eat something throw it on the ground or in the river and it simply decomposed and went through the cycle. 

   Now they have plastic but still practice the same throw every thing on the ground or in the river. Primitive understanding in a new world.

  Thai's will not go back because of face and pride.  They feel old ways are to provincial and look low so. No one wants to look like they are backwards and living like a village person.

 So little will change. Money also trumps every thing else.

It all comes down to FACE and the lack of will. I've been having this argument with my wife for years. Carry your own shopping bag. Take  your own tiered food containers and your own liquid container for the vendors to fill . This would drastically reduce plastic use. I still can't understand why we put our rubbish in plastic bags then throw it in the rubbish bin. Why not put it directly into the bin and wash the bin when necessary? As a kid in London in the 40s during WW2 this was common practise. But then we didn't have much waste. Certainly no food waste. What there was was deposited into a communal waste bin on street corners, to be taken away for pig food. Dire times call for dire measures and we are now in dire times. 

[Laza 45]

18 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I know that I keep posting this link in topics about plastic, plastic bags and recycling.

The way I see it, the more that what (at the moment anyway) seems to be a possible alternative that can be produced locally, then it must surely be worth trying to make the public aware of it.

 

So here it is again:

There could be a big opportunity to increase the sale of cassava here if the project in Indonesia is anything to go by, using cassava to produce biodegradable bags, looking just like a plastic bag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXklBP53VT4

..I was thinking there must be a huge potential market for biodegradable packaging.. not just in Asia but all over the world.  Someone will catch on sooner or later, I guess..

[wirat69]

Legalise growing of guncha and make hemp bags as a side product... or should that be the other way around?

Edited June 8, 2018 by wirat69
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[bluemoon58]

Multiply by 200 and you'd be in Lagos.