Skip Bags, Pack ‘Pinto’ For National Parks: Minister

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Left: A "pinto" tiffin carrier. Right: Tourism Minister Weerasak Kowsurat.

 

BANGKOK — Those planning a picnic or camping trip in Thailand’s national parks are being encouraged to bring their food in lunch boxes.

 

Tourism officials want people to use tiffin carriers – pintos in Thai – to take their meals into the parks instead of plastic bags, which have been nominally banned.

 

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I remember those from years ago before the plastic bag glut came about. I've been thinking going back to using these pintos would be a very good alternative to using plastic bags. 

You can always buy your food in a plastic bag and put it in the 'Pinto' then you can still throw the bag away and it cuts down on the washing.

Have I been here too long?????

“What we need is the courage to change,” Weerasak said.

 

I always thought change was inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

 

On a recent trip to the mid south i was slugged twice to enter national parks, a 300 baht to enter a beach and a 500 baht to enter a lake, (no prize for guessing how much the locals paid) both places, except lavatories has no amenities or where to buy food or water and we had to do without for many hours, so yes, pinotes would have been a great and useful idea...

Those are handy and they come in all kinds of fashionable colors, can eat straight out of them too. I've seen they deliver meals in India with these. Good idea. Just make sure there's a place to clean them at the parks and other public places.

 

 

 

Good idea but tourists are often not able to prepare food in these. Maybe meal suppliers.

 But as the cost of going to the parks is so high for tourists that will automatically reduce waste .. Maybe increase cost more is a good idea ...keep them out.... 555

But, but, but.......

Disposable plastic rules my world.

 

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This is a great move and hopefully will spread.

 

I'd like to be able to bring these to restaurants for take out food and have the restaurant put the food into one of these instead of hard plastic containers which will not biodegrade for thousands of years.