webfact Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Positive response to Thailand’s “Everyday Say No to Plastic Bags” campaign The positive public response to end of shopping malls, department and convenience stores distributing single-use plastic bags, as of January 1st, is a huge New Year’s gift to Thailand and the world, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varavuth Silpa-archa said today (Thursday). Accompanied by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Mr. Jatuporn Burutpat, Mr. Varavuth conducted a field trip to meet with people to gauge their response to the campaign, called “Everyday Say No to Plastic Bags”, launched by his ministry in cooperation with the private sector. He told the media that public response to the campaign was quite enthusiastic and the private sector, including 75 companies, have been very cooperative, although it may not be as convenient for their customers. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/positive-response-to-thailands-everyday-say-no-to-plastic-bags-campaign/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2020-01-02 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post z42 Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 Fantastic. I hope to see this initiative go from strength to strength. The country is literally awash with plastic. Any widespread campaigns to dent this unnecessary usage gets a thumbs up from me, and am glad more of the locals are thinking that way too 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anterian Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 Why not tackle the problem at source, simply stop the manufacture and supply of these bags. As long as shops can buy them they will give them to customers, particularly the mum and pop stores. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snoop1130 Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 Anti-plastic campaign gets positive response from public BANGKOK (NNT) - Starting yesterday (Jan 1), more than 75 shopping malls and convenience stores nationwide stopped handing out single-use plastic bags to customers, following the government’s six-month anti-plastic campaign. The Natural Resources and Environment Minister, Varawut Silpa-archa, and a team of officials visited four major malls in Bangkok, including Tesco Lotus in On Nut, EmQuartier, Central Chidlom and Siam Paragon, to seek public feedback on the "Everyday Say No to Plastic Bags" campaign. More than 90 giant retailers, department stores and supermarkets, earlier reached an agreement with the ministry to stop handing out all types of single-use plastic bags to their customers. Yesterday, many shops received a positive response from customers, as they were already aware of the anti-plastic campaign. Many shops also offered reusable bags to customers who forgot to bring their own bags with them. The Natural Resources and Environment Minister said about 30% of plastic waste previously came from shopping malls and convenience stores, while fresh markets accounted for 40% of plastic usage. The campaign aims to reduce the use of single-use plastic bags by 50% this year. In the long term, Thailand is to stop importing electronic and plastic waste and is to create new values among the population, especially children, about proper waste disposal to reduce the accumulated garbage affecting the country. "In the beginning of 2020, I’ve asked the Permanent Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment to hold talks with the Permanent Secretary of Education to teach environmental education to students from kindergarten because we must cultivate the habit of waste sorting. It can be sorted into organic waste, hazardous waste, recyclable waste and other types of waste. Some people, still lack this knowledge. Therefore, providing this knowledge to the people is important. As for the government, there are waste sorting and disposal plants. They use plastic bags to produce refuse-derived fuel (RDF), while other waste materials are used in landfills or upcycling. We must provide this knowledge to Thai society." -- © Copyright NNT 2020-01-02 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomazbodner Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 (edited) It was excellent response in Pratunam, where 7-Eleven stopped issuing plastic bags. There's now a pickup parked in front of the shop, selling plastic bags! Many different types and designs. Now you no longer need to take that plain looking classic 7-eleven bag. You get to choose how you want your Beluga choking bag to look like. Win-Win! Edited January 2, 2020 by tomazbodner 1 7 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wgdanson Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 I wonder if the girl, and the guy in the picture can read and understand English. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post zzaa09 Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 Plastic bags this week, is it? What a lovely and fashionable gesture. Yet, what about every consumer item that's encased in some plastic or another. Missing the larger picture.......or any picture, for that matter. 6 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fforest1 Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 Look at the picture loads and loads of plastic water bottles encased in .......DRUM ROLL........Plastic.....lol But thankfully no plastic bags...lol 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 12 hours ago, tomazbodner said: There's now a pickup parked in front of the shop, selling plastic bags! I did post when they suggested this that clever Thais would just sit outside 7/11 selling plastic bags - this guy must have read my post 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post legend49 Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 Let us see the fruits of this change. Look at the side of roads over the next few months, are they still throwing these bags out as " not their rubbish?" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Artisi Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 33 minutes ago, legend49 said: Let us see the fruits of this change. Look at the side of roads over the next few months, are they still throwing these bags out as " not their rubbish?" The rubbish will still be there without the plastic bag to contain it, so it's probably a half win situation. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JonnyF Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 17 hours ago, anterian said: Why not tackle the problem at source, simply stop the manufacture and supply of these bags. As long as shops can buy them they will give them to customers, particularly the mum and pop stores. You won't ever get rid of them completely. People use them as rubbish bags amongst other things, if they stopped making them altogether these people would have to buy the big black plastic bin bags to put their rubbish in, which are just as bad or arguably worse as they are thicker and tend to only be half full before they get thrown in the bin. A huge reduction in use in 2020 is better than a 100% overnight ban IMO. Learn to walk before trying to run. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Humpy Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 So those of us who dispose of our plastic bags responsibly have to forego the convenience of a Supermarket bag because of the knuckleheads who have no thought for how they dispose of their plastic bags . Oh well, at least the local fish market will be happy to fill my canvas reusable bag with the fish head soup ! 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post josephbloggs Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 1 minute ago, Humpy said: So those of us who dispose of our plastic bags responsibly have to forego the convenience of a Supermarket bag because of the knuckleheads who have no thought for how they dispose of their plastic bags . Oh well, at least the local fish market will be happy to fill my canvas reusable bag with the fish head soup ! Please tell me how you "responsibly" dispose of them? 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SymS Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 (edited) OK, so now we need an anti billboard campaign, they serve no purpose in society, waste plastic, and alter the landscape for no reasons. Edited January 3, 2020 by SymS typos 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Andyfez Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 (edited) Study that photo. She's walking past a huge palet of drinking water in throwaway plastic bottles, also wrapped in single use plastic........!!!!!!! Edited January 3, 2020 by Andyfez 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jaxxper Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 I think it’s a positive move. Got to start somewhere. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Guderian Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 I bought a roll of plastic bin liners for the waste basket in my kitchen and 2 kg of plastic carriers to take with me when I go shopping. My plastic bag usage won't alter at all, it just means I'll have to pay for them instead of getting them for free. I can understand now why the supermarkets are so keen on this idea. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 14 hours ago, tomazbodner said: There's now a pickup parked in front of the shop, selling plastic bags! You can't hold back Thai entrepreneurial skills !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HHTel Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 Ever listened to the Bing Crosby song: "Accentuate the positives, Eliminate the negatives." Seems posters here have it the other way around. "Accentuate the negatives!" How sad! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billzant Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 18 hours ago, anterian said: Why not tackle the problem at source, simply stop the manufacture and supply of these bags. As long as shops can buy them they will give them to customers, particularly the mum and pop stores. The only people who can stop them at source are the manufacturers themselves, and they are too tied up with their own profits and the fossil-fuel industry. It is easier to put pressure on people and it also saves the supermarkets money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyezhov Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 3 minutes ago, billzant said: The only people who can stop them at source are the manufacturers themselves, and they are too tied up with their own profits and the fossil-fuel industry. It is easier to put pressure on people and it also saves the supermarkets money. Sorry dude, reflexive soundbite jabbering about fossil fuels and manufacturers ignores the history of the plastic grocery bag itself. It came into being because it was cheaper than paper. Period. The market made them. The plastic dudes just supplied a demand. Now the .gov says no more plastic bags. Even better. Markets dont even have to pay for the plastic bags anymore. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsensam Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 33 minutes ago, Guderian said: I bought a roll of plastic bin liners for the waste basket in my kitchen and 2 kg of plastic carriers to take with me when I go shopping. My plastic bag usage won't alter at all, it just means I'll have to pay for them instead of getting them for free. I can understand now why the supermarkets are so keen on this idea. that's up to you, you could buy one reusable bag, cotton or plastic versions are widely available as the ban approached i stocked up on particularly good quality free plastic bags from a local independent supermarket, i'll be using using and reusing them one at a time for the foreseeable future. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chazar Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 19 hours ago, webfact said: The positive public response to end of shopping malls, department and convenience stores distributing single-use plastic bags, as of January 1st, is a huge New Year’s gift to Thailand and the world, Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee, and who was responsible for that Non gift? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post theoldgit Posted January 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2020 We shopped in Gourmet Market yesterday and, as usual, we pile our groceries into another trolley and unload in the car. The cashier with great excitment told my wife that as she'd spent over 300 Baht, 5,000 over in fact, if she went to Customer Services they'd give her a free plastic bag for life type bag. Customer Services directed her to a desk where she had to send a text message and then enter the code in the reply on a sheet of paper, write he phone number and sign for this bag, probably worth about 5 Baht. An American guy was refused a bag because his 400 Baht purchase included two bottles of beer. Whilst I applaud getting rid of these bags and offering multi use ones, why do these shops have to make everything so complicated? I suppose we were lucky that they didn't need copies of my passport and my wifes ID card. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Nick Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Humpy said: So those of us who dispose of our plastic bags responsibly have to forego the convenience of a Supermarket bag because of the knuckleheads who have no thought for how they dispose of their plastic bags . Oh well, at least the local fish market will be happy to fill my canvas reusable bag with the fish head soup ! I think it was Jim Jeffreys who said something to the effect of: society has to move as slow as the slowest individual, in order to move at all! I do drugs like a champion, but because Wendy here got drugged up and killed her baby... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo2014 Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 So these are no longer portable in plastic bags - environment saved!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlepe Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 (edited) most Thais do not cook and eat 3 times a day food from a vendor which comes in - plastic bags Edited January 3, 2020 by littlepe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike324 Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 chill out folks, baby step baby steps. Thais are not that bad, they just need a little push to get stuff done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dario Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 I support the move to ban plastic bags at supermarkets and convenience stores. But the plastic bags aren't the big problem. Plastic bags can be burned, so those wouldn't end up in the sea. I think the biggest problem are the pet bottles. They can be burned, too. All plastic can be incinerated and we wouldn't have a plastic problems. So easy, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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