Bangkok:- Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will try to campaign for residents to reduce household garbage dumping from one kilogram to 200 grams per person per day.

Pornthep Siriwanarangson , city councillor, said the city administration could emulate on two successful projects on waste dumping at Nakhon Phanom and at Pakkred, Nonthaburi.

Pornthep was speaking after his inspection trip to Pakkred.

A 300-household community has cooperated with Pakkred Municipality to launch the pilot project designed to reduce waste disposal of community residents.

Pornthep said Pakkred authorities managed to raise the community awareness to separate the garbage into recycle materials, organic wastes, hazardous materials, hence reducing the waste dumping.

Recycle materials could be sold instead of throwing away and organic wastes could be turned into compost.

Residents of Pakkred community would sort out the garbage into separate bags which are to be collected three to four times per week between 7.00 am and 8.00 am.

Since the project launch, most of Pakkred garbage ends up at the recycle plant instead of the landfill or incinerator.

In Nakhon Phanom, provincial residents reduced the waste disposal by 80 per cent to 200 grams per person per day.

The Bangkok city councillor said he would push for the city administration to raise the environmental awareness related to garbage dumping.

At present, the city has to collect and dispose 8,000 tons of garbage per day. For every 10 per cent cut in household garbage, the city administration could save 500 million baht in the waste disposal cost.

Bad journalism or bad policy. I don't see any real measures. I'm ready to follow the rules or the advice but what I have to do exactly? Is there any decisions made?

Bad journalism or bad policy. I don't see any real measures. I'm ready to follow the rules or the advice but what I have to do exactly? Is there any decisions made?

Just more hot air from the BMA. I helped write the Bangkok Solid Waste Master Plan for the BMA in 1997. This included waste material recycling with coloured bins in every community. It also included funds to conduct lectures in every school and community to encourage the Thai people to cooperate in waste separation at source. These lectures have been given regularly for at least 20 years but very few Thais will cooperate.

These lectures are more about "Benefits" to BMA and the companies paid to produce the many Solid Waste Plans, waste separation pamphlets and lectures, than making sure that the wast eis actually separated at source.

Around 6 months ago the BMA already gave a lecture in the community and issued a booklet to everyone requesting them to separate their waste into the various different materials. However, very few want to cooperate. In our Moo Bahn in Bangkok, consisting of around 100 houses, I am the the only person separating the waste and I have my own BMA bin.

In 1997 we installed a machine to convert waste Tetrapak milk cartons into furniture at Onuch Waste Transfer Station, but I doubt if it is still working because there is little cooperation by the public to wash and separate the cartons.

The people do not need more lectures on separating waste, they know what they should be doing but they could not be bothered. Until the people are forced to pay a fine (as in Australia) if they do not separate their waste, nothing is going to change.

I am all in favour of recycling waste materials but in pattaya they love to fill the rubbish bins as quickly as possible with no thought of the end product what really annoys me is that a lot of this waste is leftover food .

dump 200 gr, burn the 800 gr,

right ?

Start by forcing all shops to reduce the profligate issuance of plastic bags. The only way to do this is to charge for each one taken by the shopper.