On 2/19/2023 at 6:03 PM, rudi49jr said:

Had several neighbors in Chiang Mai who collected all the dead leaves and stuff from the garden every day and set it on fire every night, even when the smog was already thick enough to cut with a knife. You could see it all over the neighborhood. And it was always those little fires that don’t really burn, but just smolder and smoke for hours on end. I asked a few neighbors if they could stop the burning and maybe make a compost heap or something, but just got blank stares and looks that told me to mind my own business.
Also had a landlord who collected all the garbage from the tenants of the row of six houses that he owned, put it in a big barrel and burned it. Didn’t matter what it was, plastics and everything, he just burned it every day, great big black clouds of (probably toxic) smoke.

I saw many more examples of this kind of behavior, and came to the conclusion that most people up north just like to burn stuff. 

National pastime.

Three-Month Burn Ban Put in Place to Curb Haze, Wildfire
 

 

Rainy season will do the job.

19 minutes ago, Thailand said:

National pastime.

Sure. And most certainly not an activity that's confined to the north. 

Looks good on paper, but will it be enforced? Highly unlikely me thinks. 

What a joke.

Living in the sugar cane area I can tell you that all the sugar being harvested is being set on fire nothing will happen until the rainy season

On 2/17/2023 at 2:00 PM, kickstart said:

Do what they do in my area and some others, bale it to big bales, it goes for biomass, or at our local mill gets used as fuel for boiling molasses.

No cane is burnt in our area, so it can be done

If they make a decent return on their efforts they will do it....I agree.........but that return has to be equal to or better than the money make doing something else like cutting more sugar cane, harvesting yams etc.

The hills are alive with the sound of....... crackling......quite a spectacle on a night to see the flames......been burning for at least two weeks here and there is not a snowball's chance of anyone doing anything about it.