Trash on the beach

[grumpyoldman]

How can we get the Orborjor's office to put proper receptacles on the beaches?

Currently at Nai Harn, people just start a pile wherever and then everyone follows suit throwing on the wherever spot pile. Some don't even do that, it's just the discard mentality. Yesterday I was at Kata and the same thing, trash, trash, trash.

At least somebody is coming by the Nai Harn piles and picking them up, but the receptacles currently there are way back on the road, not by the beach, we need these by the beach.

[LivinginKata]

For a very long time I have lamented that there are no trash bins along the Kata beach road. Yet when any event then many many trash cans turn up, after the event all collected. Must admit that recently there are 2 at the ramp end of the beach. Yet folks still strew rubbish about only a few feet away. Disgusting and I feel for the 2 municiple ladies who sweep the road every day, and now there is a least one municiple lady cleaning the beach at Kata.

[cdmtdm]

i think they need to contract the beach cleaning out to some of the ex beach vendors , Monkey hill and Rang hill are both contracted out , the roadways , garden verges , toilets etc ...always clean and staff working to keep it nice.... this should be a minimal cost put to each local Obijor covering the given beaches in each area ... surley they have the funding for such a simple operation !!! i noticed early each morning at Surin beach ,the business owners along the roadways (legit ones) clean up each area themselves including in some parts raking the sands flat ....looks good ...

[steelepulse]

I think the local or bor tors just don't care. It wouldn't cost more than a few thousand baht to put bins that can't be stolen every 100 metres or so and make them easily accessible for beach goers and trash collectors alike. For some reason unbeknownst to all and sundry, this hasn't happened. Perhaps it's their way of giving the middle finger to the NCPO that took away their good earners thinking the beach chair guys did a good job in the past.

[hansgruber]

Labor is cheap. Employ 10 people to walk the beach daily and take the trash away.

Hotels should be taxed a beach cleaning levy which isn't much considering how many there are.

It's just a simple matter of good management but won't happen while the local uneducated baboons have the power.

Time to abolish local politics(village headman, orbortor etc) and have a central command.

[DLock]

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See that little round thing on the back of your phone.

It's a camera.

Try using it and your post will be much more effective at conveying your message and perhaps be lifted and printed elsewhere.

[madmitch]

I think the local or bor tors just don't care. It wouldn't cost more than a few thousand baht to put bins that can't be stolen every 100 metres or so and make them easily accessible for beach goers and trash collectors alike. For some reason unbeknownst to all and sundry, this hasn't happened. Perhaps it's their way of giving the middle finger to the NCPO that took away their good earners thinking the beach chair guys did a good job in the past.

Spot on. It is no longer their job to keep the beaches clean. The beaches are not controlled by the OrBorJor so why should they provide bins?

Of course they should, in reality, and there should be nothing stopping them providing bins on the roads close to the beach as you have suggested but I don't think we'll see it, sadly. Spending money on something that is effectively nothing to do with them? Not in Thailand!

[KarenBravo]

Sorry, but, street bins are considered a security hazard.

They were all taken down after the Bali bombing and have never been back.

[hkt83100]

Pictures speak louder than words.

See that little round thing on the back of your phone.

It's a camera.

Try using it and your post will be much more effective at conveying your message and perhaps be lifted and printed elsewhere.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/788181-spot-the-difference-litter-police-vs-real-police/page-2#entry8876347

Well, it is not on the beach, but still disgusting.

[LivinginKata]

Sorry, but, street bins are considered a security hazard.

They were all taken down after the Bali bombing and have never been back.

Sorry ... but they have been back on Kata Beach (for many days) when any public events. Then taken away after the event. My point is that if such a major security hazard then they should never be in place.

[robertthebruce]

Lets face it folks, Thailand in General, Trash is thrown everywhere, rarely i see anyone place Rubbish in ''Bins'', but yet, i see lots of people just throwing trash here there and everywhere...

Plastic Bags, Plastic food Containers , etc etc, just get discarded...

Its Sad to see....., until the mind-set changes, nowt will change...

[DrDave]

For a very long time I have lamented that there are no trash bins along the Kata beach road. Yet when any event then many many trash cans turn up, after the event all collected. Must admit that recently there are 2 at the ramp end of the beach. Yet folks still strew rubbish about only a few feet away. Disgusting and I feel for the 2 municiple ladies who sweep the road every day, and now there is a least one municiple lady cleaning the beach at Kata.

I guess that explains why some days I've seen bins, and other days - no bins to be found at Kata Beach. I've noticed that people tend to start rubbish piles around the places where the bins were previously located.

Patong Beach, on the other hand, seems to have bins out in the car/motorbike parking areas every day - filled mostly by the food and drink vendors there.