Thailand to Return Illegal Waste to Country of Origin

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thai authorities recently discovered approximately 130 tons of illegal waste shipped from abroad. They have threatened to take legal action against the shipping company and vowed to return the waste to its original country.

 

Attapol Charoenchansa, the general director of the Department of Pollution Control, stated that the department discovered the illegal waste after being contacted by the Department of Customs to examine five containers of suspicious cargo. The containers were discovered to be filled with illegally imported household waste mixed into the paper waste shipment, accounting for one-third of the total discovered.

 

Investigation revealed that the shipment belongs to the Inter-Pacific Paper company, which supposedly imports waste to use as raw material in its paper roll production in Thailand. However, the shipment violated the contractual requirement that contaminated materials make up no more than 1% of the total weight.

 

According to the PCD director, the company will be asked to return these shipments to the origin country as well as face legal action from authorities. In addition, the department will collaborate with the Department of Foreign Trade to issue a warning letter to the company, stating clearly that the country has no policy of accepting any household waste.

 

Attapol stated that the department will propose to the national environment board a five-year waste management plan that includes a strategy to decrease the number of landfills by half by 2027 and completely remove them by 2037. Another plan included in the proposal is to increase the capacity of biomass power plants in the hope of increasing the use of waste as a fuel source from 6% to 50%. He estimated that by 2037, the country will have 29.9 million tons of household waste, 53.4 percent of which will be separated at home for reuse. 46.6 percent of that will be used to generate electricity.

 

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[pokerface1]

It was probably the stench that alerted the authorities. Thailand has enough rubbish already. They must have thought just a few container loads wouldn't be noticed. 

[richard_smith237]

Rightly so...  But someone in Thailand made a deal with ‘someone else’ to take the waste......

 

... Cut off the head of the problem and solve the problem... Find the person who made the deal to take the waste. They’ve probably been doing so for years. 

 

What are the odds that person is connected to a well placed wealthy politician ?

 

 

[djayz]

On the one hand, I have to say "hats off to you" for not becoming the dumping grounds for other countries. On the other hand, I have to ask "Will you return the rubbish before or after palms have been greased?". 

[hioctane]

11 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Rightly so...  But someone in Thailand made a deal with ‘someone else’ to take the waste......

 

... Cut off the head of the problem and solve the problem... Find the person who made the deal to take the waste. They’ve probably been doing so for years. 

 

What are the odds that person is connected to a well placed wealthy politician ?

 

 

You didn’t read? It was supposed to be paper waste that would be used to make recycled paper. The contractual agreement was no more than 1% garbage. Who’s fault is it? Who knows? The sender “accidentally” sending garbage or the receiver getting paid to receive said garbage and got caught? Or a scheme by both to ship garbage? 

[smedly]

how about getting the waste off your own streets - it is a disgrace how dirty the place is - as I said before, clean countries have a team of thousands cross town and cities  working overnite cleaning the place up ................... oh but that would be too expensive so just leave the place a dirty hole 

[jacko45k]

10 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Rightly so...  But someone in Thailand made a deal with ‘someone else’ to take the waste......

 

... Cut off the head of the problem and solve the problem... Find the person who made the deal to take the waste. They’ve probably been doing so for years. 

 

What are the odds that person is connected to a well placed wealthy politician ?

 

 

I read it that the exporter included some items in the waste that were not according to the regulations. It is quite possible the person who made the deal was not at fault here

Edited July 30, 2022 by jacko45k

[Orinoco]

Oops, Someone forgot to kick the money up hill. 

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2022 by Orinoco

[AhFarangJa]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He estimated that by 2037, the country will have 29.9 million tons of household waste, 53.4 percent of which will be separated at home for reuse.

This is the Thai way of separating their waste from home..................

[Orinoco]

59 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

This is the Thai way of separating their waste from home..................

They also like to use the Big Blue bin.

 

 

[aussienam]

Maybe Inter-Pacific Paper Company should just dump their waste into the ocean like China does with their raw human sewage outside their territory.

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All boils down to corruption, criminals, greed and disregard for others.