Popular Post chub Posted June 27, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2021 Plastic bottles wash up every day on the west coast beaches during the south west monsoon. Yesterday I did a random survey of where they are coming from. Half the bottles, including many of the furthest-travelled, lost their labels during their voyage so cannot be traced. Half the remainder with labels are from Thailand and nearby countries; Malaysia. Myanmar and Indonesia (Sumatra). Here’s a selection of bottles from more distant origins to the west. From left to right in the photo: Int’l Beverage Co. water, Maldives (3,000 kilometres to the west) Gold water Kerala, India (2,000 kms) Horlicks, Haryana, India Aqua water, Cochin, India Aloe Koma, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2,000 Kms) Kist juice, Colombo, Sri Lanka Blue water. Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Kodomo Baby Powder Jakarta, Indonesia Indo Milk, Jakarta, Indonesia Splash water, Singapore Shwe Taw Win water, Myanmar Soy Nice Selangor, Malaysia Summer Water, Perak. Malaysia Qing xu water, China I’ve previously seen bottles from Seychelles and South Africa. Bottles are coming to Phuket from everywhere in the Indian Ocean to the west. Conversely, plastic bottles depart from Thailand's Andaman coast westward during the NE monsoon November to April! Bottles that don’t get beached somewhere by April can be blown back to Thailand. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holy cow cm Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 And looks like all or most are probably recyclable ones. What a shame our oceans and beaches are turning into dung heaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digbeth Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 interesting, in the bay of Thailand, there's not much variety in rubbish found, unless it has been dropped from ships or are part of bundles imported for recycling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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