Pattaya workers, vendors scurry to clean up Loy Krathong’s aftermath

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Pattaya workers, vendors scurry to clean up Loy Krathong’s aftermath

PATTAYA:--All the twinkling lights on the water and in the sky look pretty on Loy Krathong, but the day after the festival Pattaya turns into a sea of water-logged krathongs and spent hot-air lanterns.

Pattaya city workers, beach vendors and volunteers set to work around 5:30 a.m. Nov. 7 in Jomtien and Dongtan beaches to clean up the mess left by the Loy Krathong festivities the evening before. CP All Co. organized a clean up and offered bags for more than 100 people to clean up more than two kilometers of beachfront

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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-11-14

[regfrancis]

This is unbelievable, I was told the lanterns were organic and wouldn't cause pollution, but it seems otherwise. The planet/oceans we love are being destroyed by the ignorant six billion of us that dump rubbish carelessly.

PM me to meet in Pattaya to form an action group to help stop the looming disaster