Why the Thai sea and beaches are so full of trash - media told of dumping incident in south

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Picture: Siam Rath

 

If you wanted any evidence of one of the reasons there is so much trash washed up on Thai beaches look no further than a story published by Siam Rath yesterday.

 

A householder in Chumphon on the banks of the Sawee River heard some loud noises and started filming as a person in a black pick-up started dumping large plastic bin bags in the river.

 

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After the dumper fled the scene they managed to retrieve two of the bags with sticks but the other three floated away out to sea. 

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

The bags contained all manner of household trash. 

 

Suphawat, 44, went on Facebook on a local page and asked the media to tell people not to do this.

 

The river is used by many people to fish and maintain their livelihoods, he said. 

 

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[spidermike007]

How long have you lived here? This current administration is infamous for pledges, declarations, proclamations and promises. Few are even remembered, much less followed up upon two weeks later. Feel free to cite some environmental promises or proposals, that were followed up on, if you can. The nation is run by empty suits, with a staggering level of incompetence and indifference toward their land, water, air, and the common man. The smoke will die down when the dinosaurs are replaced with young and progressive leaders, who care about the health, welfare and well being of the nation, and the environment. The current crop do not have any initiative, nor any ideas. Dinosaurs are cursed with small brains. 
 

The sceptic will argue that anything we do could not possibly influence the climate, or effect the atmosphere. The planet is simply too large, and the population is too small to have any effect. Let the ships dump whatever they want into the ocean. The ocean is simply too large for anything we do to damage it. This frees them to buy as many plastic bottles as they please, drive filthy diesel vehicles, and behave as if nothing effects anything.

It's not us. It is just a cycle. We are not responsible.

[Pedrogaz]

Killing tourism one floating condom at a time. Yuck.

[Cake Monster]

Just go to any Village, travel around the small side roads and dirt tracks.

It wont take you long to find the local Dumping site, which is usually a large hole or depression in the ground.

And all that trash dumped into those holes will leach into the ground and go down into the Water table.

5 Bags of Trash !

I have personally have witnessed 15 Truck loads of Trash in a single Day go into a Hole near my House

 

[worgeordie]

Thais will say its all coming from Malaysia and Indonesia ,

we would never pollute our country , .........????

regards worgeordie 

[xtrnuno41]

Hey not only Thai will do so.

Every year 5 million TONS of plastic is dumped into the water.

Meaning criminals getting rich on dumping it.

Can you imagine that pile of plastic in your garden? 

5 islands as big as Texas floating in the oceans, merely Great pacific, where all is concentrating due to streams.

 

[Megasin1]

unfortunately it will never stop, people are just plain stupid, the good news is that whatever is done, the planet will survive, its just that humans wont, which probably isnt such a bad solution ????

 

[RocketDog]

13 minutes ago, Megasin1 said:

unfortunately it will never stop, people are just plain stupid, the good news is that whatever is done, the planet will survive, its just that humans wont, which probably isnt such a bad solution ????

 

Self-extinction.

Does have a very human ring to it doesn't it?

[Bill97]

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

How long have you lived here?

Long enough to see your rant too many times.  Do you cut and paste or type it fresh each time?  Hard to think even you are not yet tired of it.

[Tropposurfer]

If world, and Thai pollution were as simple as dumpers liked this. Unfortunately the issue is endemic to our entire way of life not down down to a few individuals. This is yet again another social indicator of just how denialist, and entrenched we are about the way we interact with and rape the world on which we rely for our very existence.  

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, Bill97 said:

Long enough to see your rant too many times.  Do you cut and paste or type it fresh each time?  Hard to think even you are not yet tired of it.

It's what 'ignore user' lists are made for.

[rudi49jr]

12 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This current administration is infamous for pledges, declarations, proclamations and promises.

You forgot vows. Every time they vow to do something - which they do a lot - you can bet your life it will never get done, not even a little fraction of it.

[spidermike007]

15 hours ago, Bill97 said:

Long enough to see your rant too many times.  Do you cut and paste or type it fresh each time?  Hard to think even you are not yet tired of it.

Thanks for your feedback. Some things bear repeating! You are welcome to block me if seeing a similar post bugs you so much.

[spidermike007]

9 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

You forgot vows. Every time they vow to do something - which they do a lot - you can bet your life it will never get done, not even a little fraction of it.

True. And even if some effort is made, Prayuth is the king of NOT FOLLOWING UP. He never insures that a proposal, declaration, or promise is carried out. Just empty words, from an empty suit. Two weeks later, all is forgotten. 

[Doctor Tom]

18 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

It wont take you long to find the local Dumping site, which is usually a large hole or depression in the ground.

And all that trash dumped into those holes will leach into the ground and go down into the Water table.

So land fill?  So just like most western countries then?   Its not just Thailand. 

[rudi49jr]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Two weeks later, all is forgotten.

You give Dear Leader and his cronies way too much credit, I’d be surprised if they remembered two minutes later what they had promised or vowed or whatever.

[moose7117]

19 hours ago, Bill97 said:

Long enough to see your rant too many times.  Do you cut and paste or type it fresh each time?  Hard to think even you are not yet tired of it.

He cuts and pastes again and again and again.

[JustAnotherFarang]

On 3/11/2022 at 3:43 PM, Cake Monster said:

I have personally have witnessed 15 Truck loads of Trash in a single Day go into a Hole near my House

You have a very strange diet Cake Monster ;-}

[impulse]

On 3/10/2022 at 11:38 PM, spidermike007 said:

This current administration is infamous for pledges, declarations, proclamations and promises.

Tempting as it is to blame the current bunch, they're just carrying on a decades (centuries?) long tradition.