Thai Environment Min promoting eco-friendly Chinese New Year

[webfact]

Environment Min promoting eco-friendly CNY

Praphorn Praphornkul

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment is promoting a “New Way to Celebrate Chinese New Year with Care for the Environment”, urging revelers to abstain from lighting incense, burning replicas and setting off fireworks to mitigate the threat of air pollution.

 

Smoke from incense is comparable to exhaust fumes as it is composed of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, a toxic hydrocarbon that threatens genetic material and is carcinogenic over long exposure. The sticks also produce particles smaller than 10 microns, contributing to the PM 2.5 problem.

 

While it is traditional for Thais of Chinese heritage to light incense as they pray for good fortune during the Chinese New Year, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment is promoting an environmentally-friendly way to celebrate the occasion. Wat Mangkon Kamalawat, or Wat Leng Noei Yi, a central temple in Bangkok’s Chinatown has been turned into a model of the new approach, which is aimed at mitigating air pollution and promoting sustainable traditions. The novel celebration is also being promoted throughout communities in Yaowarat and Charoen Krung.

 

Practices include reducing incense from 10 per prayer to only 5, avoiding the burning of paper money, while using QR codes to receive fortune readings instead of paper is being touted as more eco-friendly.

 

The minister also asked that those of Chinese heritage to reduce or refrain from traditions that involve burning or fireworks, suggesting that less destructive practices can be substituted while reminding them that apart from the environmental impact, such practices also have a direct health impact and pose a danger to persons and property.

 

 

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[Venom]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Practices include reducing incense from 10 per prayer to only 5, avoiding the burning of paper money, while using QR codes to receive fortune readings instead of paper is being touted as more eco-friendly.

Hopefully they will be too busy mounting flowers to the front of their cars, shopping getting drunk and lightning firecrackers to burn the fields so we'll to get a brief break from the 2.5 PM smog that's been blanketing the country for the last 2 months. ????

[RocketDog]

I'm always interested to see examples of the two words "Chinese" and "ecological" used in the same sentence without negative connotations. 

 

So far it's as rare as unicorns and hen's teeth except in Chinese propaganda. 

[nausea]

Everyone knows the main cause of this perennial problem, there's a clue in the timing, exacerbated by vehicular emissions, and maybe some other secondary factors, but joss sticks and burning paper money don't even figure in the equation; still, if it makes people feel like their making a difference, it's all good, I suppose.

[tifino]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Smoke from incense is comparable to exhaust fumes as it is composed of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, a toxic hydrocarbon that threatens genetic material and is carcinogenic over long exposure. The sticks also produce particles smaller than 10 microns, contributing to the PM 2.5 problem.

 

yeah yeah yeah... and cow pharts increase global warming...  

 

 

anyways the Lunar New Year is over... finit... dun&dusted for another 12 months Why did he leave his self promoting spool till so late? could have said it all in the days prior...  

 

 

surprised he didn't add that all that Incense gives the Monks cancer...