Floating trash collectors to be used in 13 coastal provinces

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Floating trash collectors to be used in 13 coastal provinces

 

 

Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources has recently received 20 floating trash collectors from a private company to be used in estuaries and tributaries in 13 provinces to scoop up trash, especially plastic waste, before it flows into the sea.

 

Thanks to the Siam Cement Group, the floating trash collectors will be installed in Phetchaburi, Rayong, Samut Songkhram, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phang-nga, Phuket and eight other coastal provinces.

 

Officials of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources will supervise the operation of the devices in coordination with SCG staff.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/floating-trash-collectors-to-be-used-in-13-coastal-provinces/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2019-08-23

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[mok199]

Saddly thais refuse to join the worlds effort to adobt a sustainable plastics campainge,instead using ''one day wars '' and machines like this ...street food vendor plastics and foam must end...period

Edited August 22, 2019 by mok199

[Lungstib]

Meanwhile 50 million mobile trash distributors roam the country making the most of the rubbish available from every supermarket and convenience store.

[Youlike]

Wow! So Hitec!! ????

[FarFlungFalang]

This is why Thailand has a big problem with plastic pollution,they just keep adding to it!

[sungod]

Just back from the UK, walked around some nice coastal/inland lake and river areas. Very very minimal rubbish- Why? Seems the UK are tackling this from source IE they try not to hand the stuff out first. Everyone from all walks of life go shopping with their own bags.

[RotBenz8888]

That's what i call recycling, turn an old bed to a garbage collector.

[Tropposurfer]

Great idea. How about the worlds richest people e.g. bill gates join with govt’s. To design and test ocean going rubbish collecting ships and begin a cleaning program across the worlds oceans.

[HarrySeaman]

PVC plastic pipes, plastic net, and plastic coated synthetic (plastic) cloth sides.

 

One storm and it will join with all the other plastic trash Thais put in the ocean.

[Mexlark]

18 minutes ago, HarrySeaman said:

PVC plastic pipes, plastic net, and plastic coated synthetic (plastic) cloth sides.

 

One storm and it will join with all the other plastic trash Thais put in the ocean.

And brought to you by Siam Cement, manufacturers and retailers of plastic pipe and other plastic construction materials.

 

 In fairness though, blue plastic pipe and fittings are loved by the guys on recycling tricycles. (So much so, that they should never be used as  No Parking poles or land boundary indicators. Almost instant disappearance!)

Edited August 23, 2019 by Mexlark

[neeray]

Here today, gone tomorrow.

 

Looking forward to a follow-up story on this. A progress report of sorts.

[Sir Swagman]

Wow, I thought from the headline that it might mean immigration would be handing out ‘floaties’ to incoming tourists......

[Stocky]

Looks like a potential death trap for wildlife

[Enoon]

6 hours ago, sungod said:

Just back from the UK, walked around some nice coastal/inland lake and river areas. Very very minimal rubbish- Why? Seems the UK are tackling this from source IE they try not to hand the stuff out first. Everyone from all walks of life go shopping with their own bags.

 

Founded 1960:

Keep Britain Tidy: Home

 

Keep Britain Tidy - Wikipedia

"1954 Led by its chair, Lady Elisabeth Brunner, the National Federation of Women's Institutes passes a resolution to "Keep Britain Tidy".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 23, 2019 by Enoon

[Stocky]

On 8/23/2019 at 2:38 PM, Enoon said:

 

Founded 1960:

Keep Britain Tidy: Home

 

Keep Britain Tidy - Wikipedia

"1954 Led by its chair, Lady Elisabeth Brunner, the National Federation of Women's Institutes passes a resolution to "Keep Britain Tidy".

 

 

Very true. As a child growing up in the UK during the sixties there was plenty of litter around, thankfully we didn't have much plastic then. But we didn't really think, you finished with something you dropped it on the pavement or in a hedgerow.