Bangkok: Monthly garbage fees to quadruple as new disposal cost added

[webfact]

Monthly garbage fees to quadruple as new disposal cost added

By THE NATION

 

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HOUSEHOLDS IN Bangkok will be charged Bt80 per month for garbage collection from October 1, under new city regulations.

 

The fee is four times the Bt20 collected currently, because it will cover the cost of waste disposal in addition to collection fees. 

 

Garbage-collection fees for businesses will also rise based on the amount and type of garbage. 

 

Under the draft regulation approved by the Bangkok Council, households producing less than 20 litres of garbage will pay Bt40 for collection and another Bt40 for disposal per month. 

 

The Bangkok governor is currently considering the regulation. 

 

Chayawuth Siriyuthwattana, who chairs a special panel scrutinising the regulation, said that a January 21-February 5 poll on 3,095 Bangkokians revealed that over 70 per cent supported the collection of disposal fees for sewage, garbage and toxic waste. 

 

 

The panel recommended that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration update its 2003 regulation in relation to payments for garbage collectors or private operators, bringing it in line with the new rule. The panel has also urged the city to make fee collection more efficient by launching an e-payment system and train staff so they can explain the new fee structure to people. 

 

Under the new system, households with less than 20 litres of garbage per day will pay Bt80 a month, while those producing over 20 litres but less than 500 litres per day will pay Bt135 monthly (Bt65 for collection and Bt70 for disposal). Calculations are based on a per-unit basis, with one unit in this case being 20 litres. 

 

Meanwhile, the monthly rate for businesses and big households producing more than 500 litres but less than one cubic metre will be hiked from Bt2,000 to Bt5,100 (Bt2,450 for collection and Bt2,650 for disposal), while those producing more than a cubic metre of garbage a day will pay Bt3,250 collection fee and Bt3,500 disposal fee. 

 

Households that produce less than 500 litres of garbage during special events will be charged Bt125 for collection and Bt130 for disposal, while those producing more than 500 litres but less than one cubic metre of garbage will have to pay Bt180 for collection and Bt190 for disposal. Households producing one-cubic metre of garbage will be charged Bt245 for collection and Bt250 for disposal.

 

The monthly fee for collecting toxic waste below 13 litres or 2 kilograms per day will remain at the current Bt300, but a Bt480 fee will be added for disposal. Those producing higher volumes of toxic waste will pay monthly fees based on units of waste.

 

Separately, the new toxic waste-collection fee for a specific occasion is Bt3,000 for distances of under 10 kilometres with an additional Bt15 for each extra kilometre. The current one-time rate is Bt2,000. 

 

Soutece: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30369133

 

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[madmen]

Good but will it mean more trucks and better service and increased pay for the garbos? doubt it

[bluesofa]

38 minutes ago, madmen said:

Good but will it mean more trucks and better service and increased pay for the garbos? doubt it

Is that some relation to Greta Garbo?

[unamazedloso]

does that mean more back street burning in bkk now? Residents where i am wont even sign up for garbage pickup of 30 and burn all day and night. 

[justin case]

80 baht per month ? whaaaat ?

 

I pay about 30.000 baht per year in security & facility fees

 

lol

[losworld]

4 hours ago, madmen said:

Good but will it mean more trucks and better service and increased pay for the garbos? doubt it

No but a few of the managers get new benz.... 

[stickyrice2000]

They need to put out public trashcans.  It's so hard to find one.  How can they encourage people to keep the area cleaned?

[geoffbezoz]

10 minutes ago, losworld said:

No but a few of the managers get new benz.... 

you mean one of these ?

 

[SoilSpoil]

Now nationwide please and use some of the money to educate the populace about the effects of burning waste.

[30la]

Expect a future of fire (burning garbage)!

[RotBenz8888]

4 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Is that some relation to Greta Garbo?

A few of her movies sure deserve some rotten tomatoes.

[Vacuum]

55 minutes ago, stickyrice2000 said:

They need to put out public trashcans. 

Indeed, and if they do, they should also be emptied once in a while.

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, Vacuum said:

Indeed, and if they do, they should also be emptied once in a while.

Jeez, some people want everything. ????

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Under the draft regulation approved by the Bangkok Council, households producing less than 20 litres of garbage will pay Bt40 for collection and another Bt40 for disposal per month. 

And just how will they know how much weight of garbage is produced by each household???

[Orton Rd]

Went to the local office to pay after 4 years living on a new estate, I did not realize we had to pay, never had a bill. Nobody at the office except 4 'workers' with one sleep, they said they were too busy to take our money! When I insisted they charged us for 2 years, we paid again the next year but not since, almost nobody else pays and we still never get bills. I must say the collectors do a great job far better than in the UK, they take anything including loads of garden waste, no idea where it all ends up.

[shady86]

Time for increase, else we'll see more overloaded garbage trucks.

[shaurene]

So, here we go, more garbage dumping by people who do not intend to pay higher prices.

[bizboi]

How much to dump 20 million voting slips?

[Burma Bill]

I live in a bungalow on a small estate in a rural Khon Kaen Provincial town. There is a communal rubbish bin which is emptied on a DAILY basis. I have never been asked to pay for this service so I assume the landlady pays. The bin men are excellent and will sort any recyclable trash into sacks hung from the side of the lorry - additional pocket money! I have nothing but praise for them - well done lads!

[Burma Bill]

27 minutes ago, shaurene said:

So, here we go, more garbage dumping by people who do not intend to pay higher prices.

"fly tipping" - could be even more "illegal" piles of rubbish in Bangkok!

Edited May 10, 2019 by Burma Bill
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[yokat]

How are they supposed to measure that in Bangkok when people just dump their bags in the nearest sidewalk garbage pile ? Do they expect people to self report ?

Many posts seems to be discovering that there is something to pay for garbage collection. If they don't collect the money anyway what do they expect from rising the fee ?

[emptypockets]

3 hours ago, shady86 said:

Time for increase, else we'll see more overloaded garbage trucks.

Not overloaded.  What you see on top of the truck is already sorted recyclables 

[Number 6]

Liquid seeping out of the truck and onto the road, small sounds where I live has made a once lovely little pocket of Bangkok literally a sewer. It's absolutely disgusting to walk out to the main road.

 

NOT stopping to sort thru the refuse would help.

 

Another peg down for Bangkok. Never ends.

Edited May 10, 2019 by Number 6