China keens to set up plants in Thailand

[MexicanFarang]

The Chinese people are getting fed up with pollution in China.

Now, the Chinese government is doing something about it.

Thailand, Laos, Cambodia & Myanmar: You are sooooooo screwed.

[BKKdreaming]

will these plants be near BKK Chinatown ??????? NOPE

or any area with many Thai-chinese NOPE

look at China history in Africa where they even bring in Chinese workers to build their factories ,

walk away,,,,,,,no RUN , just like the Russians , the Chinese are not thinking of the Thais as equals in this deal

[Thai at Heart]

Oh the irony!!

The most polluted country on Earth is going to help other countries with waste management!!

Thailand to be turned into China's toxic dump?

I have wondered why the Thais don't incinerate waste and generate power from it. Ironic the Chinese are interested in helping them and making money off the back of the Thais!

hey are confident that the quality of garbage in Thailand is in good condition.... alt=laugh.png>

Yes quality garbage in Thailand....same as the quality tourists they have

how much heat would one generate burning plastic 7/11 bags and Styrofoam trays anyway ?

Incineration was briefly sold as the solution to solid waste disposal in the "advanced" industrialized countries. Until it was realized how polluting it is-- burning plastics produces dioxin, one of the worst, most pernicious environmental carcinogens. And there will be heavy metal emissions as well, depending of course on what goes into the incinerator.

Now the incinerators that were built in a ten-year span starting in the 80s are largely abandoned in the larger countries.

Here is a case study from Serbia, of all places, pointing out that such "investments" are part of a pattern of exploitation of developing countries.

http://www.academia.edu/191713/FOREIGN_INVESTMENTS_IN_MUNICIPAL_SOLID_WASTE_INCINERATORS_-_TRANSFER_OF_POLLUTING_TECHNOLOGY_TO_SERBIA

Korean companies have just won contracts to I stall several incinerators across thailand.

[Cake Monster]

Thailand - the hub of garbage

As well as laying uncollected in the streets all over the country, and in toxic uncontrolled land fills, its even taught in the schools