Pattaya demands garbage contractor clean up its act

PATTAYA:--Pattaya officials demanded the city’s garbage contractor clean up its act by hiring more staff and training them better to keep the city tidy.

Amnuai Somphongtham, chairman of city council’s environment committee, and other council members met with executives from Pattaya Clean City Co. Sept. 1 to convey their unhappiness with its work in the streets, on sidewalks and in collecting trash. Bins are overflowing, litter is everywhere and the trucks smell, they said.

Council members passed a motion dividing the city into six garbage-collection zones and demanded Pattaya Clean City hire staff to work each area from 4 p.m. through midnight and designate a supervisor to coordinate cleaning services with city hall starting at 6 a.m. each day.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-09-12

We've got major problems with this also. Bins are overflowing and they just leave the garbage on the street. We've complained to the local government many times, nothing has happened...

We've got major problems with this also. Bins are overflowing and they just leave the garbage on the street. We've complained to the local government many times, nothing has happened...

It would seem that the Pattaya city government has, like their cohorts across the planet, outsourced the garbage collection. So unfortunately, you are complaining to wrong people. The ones at the end of the phone will listen and nod their heads, then when the call ends say to themselves "This is someone else's problem." Then do very little.

Better to get a registered voter to complain to their elected member, with a warning that they know enough other registered voters who are upset to change their collective vote. (Remember there are less than 10,000 registered voters in Pattaya)

Agreed! And that's what we did. Our village manager knows the government rep for our area. Actually lives right across the street from our village, and on the same road where the trash problem is. She promised to look into this...many times...and nothing has ever been done.

What can ya do! LOL

No problem, I seen one truck taking care of the smell, he was at Mabprachan lake, washing the smelly crap into Pattaya's drinking water this week.

In Jomtien, along the beach the lazy staff just adds another stinky dumpster instead of taking away the garbage.

Now we have 4 overflowing before they haul it away.

STINKS!!

It's like this every 50 meters along the entire beach!

Great headline though. It's up there with "Curtain supplier told to pull itself together".