Effective today (Wednesday), all single-use plastic and Styrofoam items are banned from all of Thailand’s national parks.

 

According to the announcement by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, which was published in the Royal Gazette yesterday and become enforceable today, all single-use plastic and Styrofoam items, such as plastic bags which are less than 36 microns thick, plastic glasses, spoons, forks, straws and etc. are not allowed in national parks.

 

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Violators can face a maximum fine of up to 100,000 baht if convicted.

 

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good luck with enforcing that.

Is this like when they banned sun screen on beaches? How well was THAT enforced?

The solution is simple, and by banning they get the totally opposite result. This ban is going to result in that people bring more glass bottles instead. Still throwing it on the ground. Some go broke and visitors will get hurt.

The best solution is, for the parks to find 3-5 persons that wants the opportunity to fine every person that throws something on the ground, Let´s say 100 baht standard fine per person and time. Let the people keep the fines as salaries. 

Result, no cost for the parks, clean parks and 3-5 happy people in every park in Thailand that got job with fairly good salary.

Anyone bother with Thai National parks anymore.

Sorry, they are of no interest to me at all.

Shove your entrance fees and other BS.

Just let family go , and i can stay home and drink beer Chang all afternoon whilst Cyber-loafing, or pop out for a little rub and tug.

Amazing Thailand, again and again !!!!!!!!!! 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 6, 20224 yr by Orinoco

Boy am I relieved to hear that.  It has always been my biggest fear to come across a discarded single use cup. 

45 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

The solution is simple, and by banning they get the totally opposite result. This ban is going to result in that people bring more glass bottles instead. Still throwing it on the ground. Some go broke and visitors will get hurt.

The best solution is, for the parks to find 3-5 persons that wants the opportunity to fine every person that throws something on the ground, Let´s say 100 baht standard fine per person and time. Let the people keep the fines as salaries. 

Result, no cost for the parks, clean parks and 3-5 happy people in every park in Thailand that got job with fairly good salary.

Do you issue your new staff, a baseball bat , knife or gun.

reckon they will need all three.

 

2 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Do you issue your new staff, a baseball bat , knife or gun.

reckon they will need all three.

 

You missed the point here. They were not employed staff. What they might need is a badge, that makes them at the same level as a security guard.

7 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

You missed the point here. They were not employed staff. What they might need is a badge, that makes them at the same level as a security guard.

Sorry, but you missed the point.

Point is, Thais telling Thais how to behave.

when it comes to throwing trash all over the country.

Good luck with that one.

( violent confrontations would  happen.)

Open your eyes mate, we live in a open dump called Thailand. no one cares.

 

 

Thais live out of foam boxes when away....enough said!

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Effective today (Wednesday), all single-use plastic and Styrofoam items are banned from all of Thailand’s national parks.

Which is just about everything that a picnic is packed in.

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Violators can face a maximum fine of up to 100,000 baht if convicted.

Well that seems an odd way to entice visitors?

11 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Result, no cost for the parks, clean parks and 3-5 happy people in every park in Thailand that got job with fairly good salary.

Result 5 severely hurt or dead fine collectors every day in every park.

19 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Which is just about everything that a picnic is packed in.

Well that seems an odd way to entice visitors?

What worries me is that this will likely mean people caught eating from  and disposing of, these types of containers will be penalized, while those that put the food in it initially, are not responsible? 

Surely preventing the manufacture of such products, single use food containers, which occupy as much supermarket shelving as Coca Cola, could be phased out .

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

What worries me is that this will likely mean people caught eating from  and disposing of, these types of containers will be penalized, while those that put the food in it initially, are not responsible? 

Surely preventing the manufacture of such products, single use food containers, which occupy as much supermarket shelving as Coca Cola, could be phased out

Not in my lifetime.

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Result 5 severely hurt or dead fine collectors every day in every park.

No, it would not be the result, and you know that. Now you just made a comment for the popularity contest in this forum.

It surely is a good initiative to ban single-use plastics from national parks. But please forgive me for asking: Who is going to police that? Is every single visitor going to have their rucksacks, duffel bags and vehicles searched from now on?

 

Then, of course... what about those single-portion beverage tetrapacks that are so popular here, as well as PET bottles and aluminum cans? They seem to make up a large proportion of discarded items, not only in national parks but everywhere. Just walk along any railway line in Thailand and you'll know what I mean.

 

Lastly,  I always cringe when I read the ambiguous wording "a fine of up to xxx baht" because it gives me a quite clear idea to what "sort of people" the top fine is going to applied and what "sorrt of people" are going to get away with a couple of hundred baht, if any fine at all. In this case, "up to 100,000 baht" can factually mean anything between 0 and 100,000, so that is a huge spread.

 

For a simple regulation like this, why can't the authorities just come up with a fixed flat-rate fine for EVERYBODY? You're caught bringing in a single-use plastic item into a national park, you pay 1,000 baht. You're caught again, you pay another 1,000, and so on. You arrive as a family of 5 and everybody has single-used plastics stowed away in their rucksacks, you pay 5 x 1,000 baht. And regardless of nationality or social status. Simple, isn't it?

 

Perhaps most importantly, erect HUGE signs in both Thai and English right at the entrances of every national park, so nobody can claim they didn't know about the regulation. And make sure there also are appropriate containers right next to those sings where people can dispose of their prohibited items.   

16 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Anyone bother with Thai National parks anymore.

Sorry, they are of no interest to me at all.

Shove your entrance fees and other BS.

Just let family go , and i can stay home and drink beer Chang all afternoon whilst Cyber-loafing, or pop out for a little rub and tug.

Amazing Thailand, again and again !!!!!!!!!! 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, how dare they have laws that state that plastics and other harmful substances to animals be allowed into the parks... the bloody cheek of it!!!

16 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

You missed the point here. They were not employed staff. What they might need is a badge, that makes them at the same level as a security guard.

Badges? Badges? We don' need no steenkin' badges......????

How about putting a few rubbish bins around went to a park the other day and there was rubbish everywhere and not one bin in sight so the Thais just throw it on the ground  same is what happened at phi phi island 100s of speedboats and no rubbish bins  yet they gladly take your money to enter

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