High waves bring deluge of foreign waste to Nakhon Si Thammarat beach

By The Nation

 

 

Two-metre waves in the Gulf of Thailand have forced fishermen in Nakhon Si Thammarat province to evacuate the area while foreign waste is being swept ashore.

 

Locals have found lots of waste washed up on the beach in Hua Sai district. The labels on the waste showed that they were not products from Thailand, but from neighbouring countries.

 

They said the storm usually brought the waste matter to the beach every year, resulting in degeneration of the environment in a place which was a tourist attraction.

 

They said that there was no appropriate management by the local officials despite repeatedly facing the waste issue.

 

Oil spill is another problem that the locals are concerned about, as it has damaged the ecosystem of the beach in the past, but there was no organisation taking responsibility.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30398683

 

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Dirty foreigners again though a novel approach picking it up could work ???? 

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High waves bring deluge of foreign waste to Nakhon Si Thammarat beach

Foreigners  cop the blame for all the woes in Thailand,  you will never see a Thai litter.

Meanwhile, those countries in question are suffering from Thai waste washing up on their shores. Pattaya and Bangkok are great examples where heavy rains cause floods and wash the rubbish from the bins into the sea.

 

17 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Dirty foreigners again though a novel approach picking it up could work ???? 

This happened when I volunteered in a fishing village in vietnam...next to a 5 star resort and untouched beach

 

The problem?  FISHERMEN...they would pitch trash right off the boat at night....just like the trash burners..

So in the morning, each day another mass of trash from currents......

 

So we tried to clean the trash, i recall the locals sitting on the beach laughing at us...we even bought big blue trash cans to try to get them to use them as the locals were just as bad...someone stole our new trash cans..

18 hours ago, webfact said:

They said that there was no appropriate management by the local officials despite repeatedly facing the waste issue.

I am lost for words... 

19 hours ago, webfact said:

They said that there was no appropriate management by the local officials despite repeatedly facing the waste issue.

Normal.

Well, I stand corrected and I have to apologize to Anutin, the sweet heart of the public health ministry, who coined the "dirty farang" sentence. 

It is now proven, as the waste landing at the shores in Nakorn Sri Thammarat is from Malaysia and Vietnam (by the packaging). No Thai waste, or a very carefully selected photo, if not a set-up picture? 

I'm sure that if you look at all the trash washing up on the beach you will find a fair amount of domestic generated trash as well.

Just now, Hanuman2547 said:

I'm sure that if you look at all the trash washing up on the beach you will find a fair amount of domestic generated trash as well.

Fair amount of domestic waste, what you saying?

Good heavens Thais would never dream of casting away any waste, they always use litter bins, always take their litter home.????????

Can only be from dirty foreigners.????????

5 hours ago, ChakaKhan said:

This happened when I volunteered in a fishing village in vietnam...next to a 5 star resort and untouched beach

 

The problem?  FISHERMEN...they would pitch trash right off the boat at night....just like the trash burners..

So in the morning, each day another mass of trash from currents......

 

So we tried to clean the trash, i recall the locals sitting on the beach laughing at us...we even bought big blue trash cans to try to get them to use them as the locals were just as bad...someone stole our new trash cans..

Time to re-read the novel 'The Ugly American'?

 

 

2 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

Well, I stand corrected and I have to apologize to Anutin, the sweet heart of the public health ministry, who coined the "dirty farang" sentence. 

It is now proven, as the waste landing at the shores in Nakorn Sri Thammarat is from Malaysia and Vietnam (by the packaging). No Thai waste, or a very carefully selected photo, if not a set-up picture? 

Don't they you can buy that stuff in Thailand as well? So if a bottle of coke gets washed up

it has to come from the US.

The headline and the article is so outrageously xenophobic... its atrocious. 

 

How much of the waste washing up on the Thai shores is actually Thai waste. How much Thai waste washes up on foreign shores? 

 

The issue itself is ‘waste’ and its an international issue, the insinuation by this article that Thailand is clean, pure, beyond reproach, while neighbouring countries are littering and polluting the environment is extremely distasteful and perhaps highlights the mindset of 'Thailand’ to side-step responsibility.

18 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Time to re-read the novel 'The Ugly American'?

 

 

 I can just go on Parler, or visit the man child squatting in the peoples house, or switch on fox news

18 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

coke gets washed up

it has to come from the US.

or South America....(sniiiiiifffff)  ????

On 11/28/2020 at 2:36 PM, Meat Pie 47 said:

Don't they you can buy that stuff in Thailand as well? So if a bottle of coke gets washed up

it has to come from the US.

No Sir, but I can read Malayu/Bahasa and Vietnamese ....... The products, if sold in Thailand, would have to have some form of Thai on it - for obvious reasons. 

And if the Cola, quoted by you, would show up with the following lettering, it would not be US but Vietnamese .... ???? 

It may be that while the picture that illustrates the problem has possibly been selective in an attempt to apportion blame to elsewhere in Asia the truth is that the  people of the entire  region do not generally and collectively  recognize the  problem. Not personally  nor officially in meaningful  terms.

Yet while the  visual impact of the evidence of the  accumulation of  material waste in the  oceans  is  significant  it provides  no comprehension of the invisible chemical  wastes that pour in from almost  all corners of the  modern  world.

The sad  fact is that while  plastic waste has an impact on the oceanic environment it is the poisoning of the  dwindling  marine  resources  humans  extract that few are made properly aware of that need be!

The  heavy  metal content of  fish is already  to a point where responsible health advisories  suggest limiting consumption of  what should  be a source of  good  protein.

Those wonderful considerate  nations  that so responsibly remove  consumer waste products and  secrete them in  some obscure location do not admit  nor prevent the leachates  of  many  metallic and  poisonous compounds into  water tables and eventually the oceans.

There seems to be some  ironical humor in the fat we  can get so indignant about visual evidences of pollution but are less encouraged  or willing to  consider  the pollution aspect  created or disposed of in the manufacturing of that evidence. Or the cynical deliberate practice of using developing countries  to manufacture on behalf of other in avoidance  of regulatory  requirements.