Thailand’s causes of air pollution’s “Slow Violence” and its possibilities for the Clean Air

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Until the dead solar panels and ebike batteries are consigned to landfill........

I made reference to that problem earlier. See this article on the BBC.

[Sweet Swede]

The problem is that they don't give a <deleted> and use no resources to catch the igniters/culprits, they wait until the fires are catastrophic and then act to extinguish the fires. This is how most of Asian governments is reacting to the extreme air pollution, while most western countries actually do something about it. The forest and agricultural fires are guilty of +/- 90 % of air pollution in the dry season. Authorities knows it, and still there is no real or serious action taken to prevent it, just meaningless talk to give the impression that they care, which they absolutely don't. 

[Muhendis]

7 hours ago, mania said:

BTW: finding a cash use for framers husks/crop waste would be good incentive to bundle it. If govt bought it & used as a fuel to produce electricity same as Hawaii did for years with sugar cane waste. But then again that is just another type of burning

I'm sorry to tell have to tell you but you are way behind the times. We have been doing this in Buriram for many years now. 

 

Husks are recovered from rice milling and used for chicken and cow feed or ploughed back into the soil for texture improvement.

 

Rice hay is baled up for buffalo feed and anything surplus to that, which is quite a lot, goes to the local biomass plant or gets ploughed back into the soil for texture improvement.

 

We do very little burning of sugarcane and rice residue because of the value of the "leftovers" for sale to the above.

Granted, some farmers do burn but they are the Six Rai or less guys for whom the "leftovers" are not enough to pay for their harvesting.

[mania]

13 hours ago, Muhendis said:

I'm sorry to tell have to tell you but you are way behind the times. We have been doing this in Buriram for many years now.

Glad to hear that! But also as I said it is actually a smaller percentage of the problem (farmers burning)

They need to stop those burning whole mountainsides to clear ????

[watchcat]

18 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

 

They will last about 25 years , probably longer than me ...

Does this mean that you don't care if if you can save a few baht?