Before/After/The Next Day - litter in Bangkok klong just keeps coming

[rooster59]

Before/After/The Next Day - litter in Bangkok klong just keeps coming

 

Image: Sanook

 

Pictures posted online showed what might have been after a major Bangkok klong was cleaned up.

 

But the very next day things were back to normal - Klong Lat Prao was clogged with trash. 

 

The first picture showed the deplorable state of the klong. The second showed a lovely clean canal after municipal workers had got to work. 

 

But the third showed it was back to normal. 

 

 

Sanook said that three tons a day of trash was being tossed into the canal. 

 

In their headline they said that social media was "disheartened". 

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-03-16

[Jazz5555]

Takes a long time too change old habits 

[samsensam]

 

i remember a campaign, with a dolphin i recall as the motto, to clean up bangkok's waterways, and that was in the year 2000. good work guys.

[Vacuum]

10 minutes ago, Jazz5555 said:

Takes a long time too change old habits 

A couple of generations. Same goes for Thai motorists....

[300sd]

If someone was doing their job and these pigs were fined for littering or put in jail after a warning....it would not take too long for them to clue in!

[johng]

Maybe they need some fully automated 24/7  flotsam skimmers with conveyors unloading into dump trucks to take the stuff to a proper landfill/recycle/incineration plant.

 

Also stop dumping stuff in the bloody canals,rivers and sea..

[pokerface1]

If there was a tracking device on the rubbish removed from the canal the first time, I bet it would show the same  rubbish is back again. Disposal of the rubbish is a bigger problem that needs to be addressed.

[Lupatria]

1 hour ago, 300sd said:

If someone was doing their job and these pigs were fined for littering or put in jail after a warning....it would not take too long for them to clue in!

Meanwhile farangs throwing a cigarette butt on squeaky clean Sukhumvit will be fined 2.000 baht. Looks like there is no money to be squeezed out of the locals.

[yellowboat]

Not surprising.  Those living around the Khlongs have made littering an art form.  It can almost be set to music.  Have seen highly poised, model types effortlessly float plastic bags into the Khlongs.  Don't know if they are stupid, just don't care or oblivious.  It is just sad. 

[SweetStickyRice]

Surprisingly there were no dead bodies found. I've seen a small'ish dead crocodile once floating while cruising on a Khlong boat with my mouth shut.