Hua Hin: Tourists help in ten kilometer clean up of the beach

[rooster59]

Hua Hin: Tourists help in ten kilometer clean up of the beach

 

Image: 77kaoded

 

Thai media reported that the Hua Hin municipality and other volunteers had help in a clean up operation along ten kilometers of the coast. 

 

Tourists chipped in to keep the beach clean. 

 

77kaoded reported that trash blown in that had found its way into the sea via rivers and canals was less than normal for this time of the year perhaps due to light winds. 

 

But there was still plenty of it and the main culprit (disregarding who had tossed it out in the first place) was a mass of cups and bottles....

 

Made of plastic. 

 

 

Tourist areas and beach fronts outside big hotels were cleaned up first as this was deemed to be the most damaging to the image of Thailand. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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[NCC1701A]

good work. Trash Heroes do this every Sunday in Hua Hin.

 

That stretch of beach is very near my house.

[Nyezhov]

22 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

good work. Trash Heroes do this every Sunday in Hua Hin.

 

That stretch of beach is very near my house.

Nice looking stretch, not like the in town where the cellulite jiggles

[NCC1701A]

16 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Nice looking stretch, not like the in town where the cellulite jiggles

yes this is south of the "Monkey Mountain" Wat.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/JfRYk1qRgMdPTVFF9

 

https://goo.gl/maps/LdF7qbvqxCtsb3NDA

 

super cool hipster people like me go to this beach:

 

https://goo.gl/maps/fWWPPcThjUxaXHYV9

 

https://goo.gl/maps/FNwsCgRAaY7bhSCa7

 

 

[Nyezhov]

3 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

yes this is south of the "Monkey Mountain" Wat.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/JfRYk1qRgMdPTVFF9

 

super cool hipster people like me go to this beach:

 

https://goo.gl/maps/fWWPPcThjUxaXHYV9

 

 

See thats my problem dude, thats so far out of town I would need wheels. I guess I could rent a car down there if I had a DL. I forgot to get my IDL! Idiot!

[Phuketshrew]

None of the trash collectors are wearing protective gloves ...

[BritManToo]

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

But there was still plenty of it and the main culprit (disregarding who had tossed it out in the first place) was a mass of cups and bottles....

Yet the photo showing the piles of rubbish seem to contain mainly foliage.

[ubon farang]

7 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

good work. Trash Heroes do this every Sunday in Hua Hin.

 

That stretch of beach is very near my house.

Hi mate 

[weegee]

Isnt it sad to see that Tourists, on Holidays, have to clean up a Beach before they can use it?

 

[Nyezhov]

4 minutes ago, weegee said:

Isnt it sad to see that Tourists, on Holidays, have to clean up a Beach before they can use it?

 

Yeah do something for the earth after airplane CO2ing it to death, and before they spend weeks just frothing at the mouth swilling suds screaming yobs bargirling and generally making a mess.

 

Its all good, Im on perpetual holiday and pick up after myself. And look if you come into my home a pitch a bowl smearing goochie, then out of courtesy, Ill get out the toilet brush. Same same concept

[essox essox]

8 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

See thats my problem dude, thats so far out of town I would need wheels. I guess I could rent a car down there if I had a DL. I forgot to get my IDL! Idiot!

Excuses excuses excuses!!!!

[Scot123]

TAT should get on to this fantastic marketing opportunity "Come to Thailand and Clean Our Beaches". Phew work all year, save your pennies so you can come to Thailand and pick up rubbish... Yep sign me up........... Then on second thoughts I'll find somewhere that has clean beaches and clean sea where untreated sewage isn't pumped into the sea. 

[Pilotman]

Tourists 'helping'  just perpetuates the problem,  by allowing lazy, greedy, unscrupulous Thais in authority to get away with total indifference to their own environment and down right laziness. 

[shy coconut]

7 hours ago, Pilotman said:

Tourists 'helping'  just perpetuates the problem,  by allowing lazy, greedy, unscrupulous Thais in authority to get away with total indifference to their own environment and down right laziness. 

Most beach clean ups world wide are done my mainly local volunteers, a resort in

Cornwall has eco tourism where people stay with the sole purpose in cleaning the beaches.

 

Sadly the Thai government doesn't have the exclusive as far as indifference is concerned.

 

You may well be correct about the lazy greedy and unscrupulous people in power.

I will take your word for it as I don't mingle with the hi so's and don't get as wound up

by their actions (or inactions) as many folk seem to do. We are only here for a limited amount

of time and stressing about stuff you can't change seems pointless.

 

Annoyingly, it isn't the often ludicrously negative posts here that will make me flounce off, I find

them both amusing and peculiar, rather the newish video advert pop up boxes that will do it

for me.

 

[hotchilli]

22 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thai media reported that the Hua Hin municipality and other volunteers had help in a clean up operation along ten kilometers of the coast

Something that the local office should be doing 365 days of the year !!!

[Vacuum]

23 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

good work. Trash Heroes do this every Sunday in Hua Hin.

 

That stretch of beach is very near my house.

I take it that you joined them. 

[Tropposurfer]

Well done well done dear folks.

As a surfer I've been picking up plastic and other trash in the sea and on the beach since I was a small grommet ... makes you feel good to do a simple thing like that, open the heart to loving kindness and responsibility.

The trash on this beach comes for all over the globe or at least hundred if not thousands of miles around so the notion that tourists have no stake in cleaning up trash as we see it is a somewhat limited view in my opinion. There is no time-off when caring by simple decisions and simple actions for the world in which we live.

We need to change our mindset and be proactive in this care. This change in mindset about our waste and impact on our world is not in the hands of someone else but in yours and my hands, our hearts, and our minds. We are stewards of the world we live in, we don't own it.

We have no holiday or respite from our daily care of our environment and if anyone here on TV thinks otherwise then I respectfully suggest go and have a good think about that. 

If we visit and consume in this pretty place around HH or any other place, then we contributing to the pollution there.

The 'fact' is we are all stakeholders and citizens of this planet ... into which we are all throwing our trash without end and forethought. Go out tomorrow, collect some trash around and place it carefully in your bins. Go ask your local council how the trash is dealt with and support recycling. 

Refuse plastic cups and bags. Carry your own - recycle them over and over again. Buy some bamboo straws and donate them to your local school, drink stall/cafe, use them in your home, encourage and get your kids these things and educate them about why they are being given them. 

[metisdead]

A work permit troll post has been removed. 

[adammike]

20 hours ago, Scot123 said:

TAT should get on to this fantastic marketing opportunity "Come to Thailand and Clean Our Beaches". Phew work all year, save your pennies so you can come to Thailand and pick up rubbish... Yep sign me up........... Then on second thoughts I'll find somewhere that has clean beaches and clean sea where untreated sewage isn't pumped into the sea. 

Please let me know where there is some unpolluted sea and beaches where plastic trash doesn't come in on every tide,it does seem a universal problem.

[Coastrider]

On 9/27/2019 at 11:37 PM, NCC1701A said:

yes this is south of the "Monkey Mountain" Wat.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/JfRYk1qRgMdPTVFF9

 

https://goo.gl/maps/LdF7qbvqxCtsb3NDA

 

super cool hipster people like me go to this beach:

 

https://goo.gl/maps/fWWPPcThjUxaXHYV9

 

https://goo.gl/maps/FNwsCgRAaY7bhSCa7

 

 

I believe that there is one hotel on that beach.

 

[Misab]

It would be an excellent idea if the people along Thailand’s rivers were told not to throw their garbage into rivers, perhaps show them pictures of the damage it causes in tourist areas.