5 hours ago, webfact said:

It appears that it's not the tourists that are the problem

No shxt Sherlock! 

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

had been blown in from the sea

Sure, why not? It could never have been dropped by any of the locals visiting the beaches. No, not those environmentally conscious people... 

Remove "beaches" and insert "Thailand and many Thai  people" They throw their trash anywhere and everywhere.

1 minute ago, djayz said:

Sure, why not? It could never have been dropped by any of the locals visiting the beaches. No, not those environmentally conscious people... 

Especially  on a  weekend when the piles of  polystyrene food  cartons strangely  in the shade under  all  beach trees appears  as if  by magic.

There is no big mystery here. 

 

Most of the <deleted> is from fishing boats. I lived on Samui many years and it was well known that this was the issue. 

A post with a link to the Bangkok Post has been removed. 

7 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia is my guess....555

Laos??

I know this story is about the beaches but there is trash

everywhere I look in Thailand.  Just another part of 

AMAZING THAILAND 

Pulling into a beach on the Andamans from the seaward side in the late 90s, we were wondering what all that mass of white stuff at the tideline could possibly be. Turned out it was hundreds/thousands of plastic water bottles that had blown across from Thailand - probably Phuket. 

 

Garbage travels...

All just the same every Soi,

every beach,

every park,

and on, and on, and on

Thailand -4.0

What's new.  zero

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Live in a condo, central BKK and cannot believe the amount of fast food business ......does no one cook or feed themselves?........Grab and Panda constantly queued outside waiting for people to pick up their orders.

Many many Thais, particularly the younger single ones, live in those blocks of single rooms, with no cooking facilities. They either eat at neighbourhood food stalls or use Grab and Food Panda.

Not just Thailand - there's a whole flotilla of tin can boats every time I walk along Blackpool promenade daily now

8 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia is my guess....555

It can't be Thailand...7-Eleven doesn't even give out plastic bags anymore.

Yanui Beach in Phuket a week ago...another "welcome" for the Sandbox tourists.

 

Good job, at least someone who understands.

10 hours ago, giddyup said:

Cruise ships did it for years, not sure if they still do.

You are running behind, by IMO ( International Maritime Organisation ) regulation it is compulsory for ships to have incinerators on board and burn their garbage while at sea. In port they have to have it collected by official compagnies. This regulation excist since mid 80's and is strictly maintainted and checked by IMO, port authorities and classification societies such as Lloyds, Bureau Veritas, German Loyd, Det Norske Veritas and so on.

10 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

10 hours ago, Moonlover said:

They don't need to. Just drop it the ditch. The ditch leads to a stream and so on and so forth. Most rubbish in the sea enters it via the rivers and Asia has 6 of the 10 most polluting rivers in the world. So no surprise that it has the most polluted beaches.

I don't litter in anyway and recycle everything and give it to the garbage people to sell.

 

And whatever they can't sell, they dump on the side of the road or into the river.

 

Don't get me wrong, I was amazed at the efficiency of the Thai recycling.  First pass went to the apartment staff who would take what they wanted.  Then, the guys driving the garbage truck spread the trash out on the soi and went through it for an hour or so in the wee hours.  Then it got loaded into the hydraulic squasher, and that's where I lost all faith that what was left over would be disposed of responsibly.  Especially when it's more profitable to dump it on the side of the road.

 

Ships dump trash overboard.  Cities dump waste in the ocean.  People use canals and rivers as disposal sites.  Money meant to be used for proper waste collection and disposal goes into the pockets of the corrupt.

9 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

All rivers eventually empty into the sea. 

The Jordan river empties into the Dead "Sea".  The great salt lake in Utah, USA has 3 rivers feeding it and it stops there.

6 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

You are running behind, by IMO ( International Maritime Organisation ) regulation it is compulsory for ships to have incinerators on board and burn their garbage while at sea. In port they have to have it collected by official compagnies. This regulation excist since mid 80's and is strictly maintainted and checked by IMO, port authorities and classification societies such as Lloyds, Bureau Veritas, German Loyd, Det Norske Veritas and so on.

That might apply to major shipping companies, but there's thousands of fishing vessels and private boats on the oceans at any one time, not sure all of those are equally responsible.

12 hours ago, simon43 said:

Laos??

They don't have beaches on the sea last time I looked......

Not only Beaches are full of  Garbage  most every Soi in East Pattaya is the same

Just now, actonion said:

Not only Beaches are full of  Garbage  most every Soi in East Pattaya is the same

Not just east Pattaya, impromptu tips pop up all the time far and wide....they might have slowed down on the Railway Line Rd because it is near impassable.

The whole country is an open dustbin, no hope that it will change in the next millennium

I noticed on FB there have quite a few groups doing beach clean ups in Phuket I think the local orbortor should be out there they have the equipment my local one has a couple of JCB's and various trucks could be done in no time,

1 minute ago, ChipButty said:

I noticed on FB there have quite a few groups doing beach clean ups in Phuket I think the local orbortor should be out there they have the equipment my local one has a couple of JCB's and various trucks could be done in no time,

They should use the people in jail to work in chain gangs. In Pattaya they do this to keep the sewers running.

20 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

I never understand why anyone dumps garbage into the sea.

I think most of it comes from the rivers and land, it just ends up in the sea. I have a klong next to my house in Bangkok, you would be shocked at the plastic waste floating in it, and on the outgoing tide its all pulled into the sea. 

13 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:

I think most of it comes from the rivers and land,

We think alike.

 

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All rivers eventually empty into the sea. 

 

You would think that now would be the golden opportunity to clean the country up, but if there isn’t a baht in it it won’t happen.

22 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia is my guess....555

Yes of course Thais would never do that

Just reading this story and through the comments triggers the thought of our global greenhouse gas problem. We are all part of the problem even when governments get an agreement, the job is only done properly if EVERYONE does their part. Unlike the eyesore of plastic, etc waste on public beaches, GHG emissions are latent and so it’s easy to make it someone else’s problem. I’m driven to the conclusion that problems the likes of this are the canary in the coal mine of the global problem we have with emissions, be it plastic or GHGs. We are in this together and we all need to be involved in the change that must take place. If everyone does their bit, we can win. But it’s not heartening to read of the lack of personal responsibility in this area and the broader implications.