Bangkok garbage collection fee to go up from 20 baht/month to 150 baht soon

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Garbage collection fee to go up from 20 baht/month to 150 baht soon



BANGKOK: -- Household garbage collection fee which was not raised for over 20 years will soon be increased to 150 baht/month under a new regulation now being scrutinised by the Public Health Ministry.

Suvaporn Jermrangsee, director of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Environment Office, said the BMA is now improving its facilities in garbage collection to cope with increasing household garbages once the new collection fee goes into effect.

It is also procuring furnaces to dispose of the hazardous garbages instead of burying.

The new fee is now being scrutinised by the ministry so that it will be implemented at the same rate nationwide.

Initially the new collection fee is set at 150 baht/month for a household, replacing the existing 20 baht/ month rate which is used without adjustment for several decades.

He said BMA spent over six billion baht a year in household garbage collection, but yearly collection fee of 450 million baht was too small to absorb the huge cost burden.

At present there are 2.1 million households in Bangkok but could collect fees from only 1.9 million households.

The BMA could collect 9,000 tons of garbage a day, breaking down to 20% recycled garbage, 30% of perishable garbages that could be processed as fertilisers, and 50% that had to be buried.

He said if the new rate goes into effect, collection frequencies will be increased.

He said normal collection time is from 8.00 pm to 5.00 am, adding all collection must be finished before 6.00 am.

At present the BMA garbage trucks could hardly access to 300 densely communities.

However community leaders have arranged volunteers to move the household garbages out of their communities to open areas fixed by the BMA where the trucks could work.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/garbage-collection-fee-to-go-up-from-20-bahtmonth-to-150-baht-soon


-- Thai PBS 2015-06-02

[RIJoe]

150 baht a month for me is no problem - happy to pay, but for locals that might be difficult to 'all of a sudden' budget. Maybe a progressive increase would work better?

[lopburi3]

Actually it is paid annually AFAIK. At least in my area of Bangkok it has always been paid in July for one year at a time. Suspect it may be different in other areas.

[Patanawet]

What is the frequency of collection in Bangkok?

[maidee]

saw yesterday, the road from the airport to bangkok, how thais dispose of garbage, the highway was full of smoke

and not a copper along the way

[lopburi3]

Smoke drifting across highways is normally burning of fields - not garbage.

[lopburi3]

What is the frequency of collection in Bangkok?

Every other day in my area.

[maidee]

was only 20 baht ?

and our moo baan askes 10.000 baht per year

yeah, they also have some security guard services

and less than half of all the people pay their dues (sticker to notify)

[inzman]

Good for the fee increase if it will help eliminate the abundance of trash. I hope the money goes towards an upgrade to the whole system. Unfortunately, it's almost certain in this country that the managers will all be driving new cars now. Call me cynical, let's wait and see.

[Patanawet]

What is the frequency of collection in Bangkok?

Every other day in my area.

Came home about 03:00 the other night and the truck was at my condo block and the guys on the back of the truck were frantically ripping the bags open to see what they could salvage for themselves.

I don't know what they thought when they came accross my cat poo bag.

Better than U.K. where i believe you have to separate your rubbish into different bins (and are fined if you do it wrongly) and they are collected every two weeks or so!

[razer]

Well .... let's hope they use the money to put out more trash bins and increase pick-up.

[tracker1]

When I first read the post I thought to myself what a load of rubbish ! to steep an increase it only encourages dumping

[tom21]

I wonder if the price increase will spread across thailand

[saminoz]

150 baht a month for me is no problem - happy to pay, but for locals that might be difficult to 'all of a sudden' budget. Maybe a progressive increase would work better?

In my village, a good number of the residents won't even pay the 20 Baht!! I am forever catching them throwing their crap in my bin, cheap batsards.

Absolutely no chance if they apply a 750% increase!!

[ezzra]

Our garbage collectors contractors guarantee us full satisfaction with his service, if not

happy he will give us back double the amount the garbage he has collected from us....

[MadMac]

Community garbage bag in Hang Dong cost 6...7 Baht. Need about 2...3 per week, you drop it on the road and they collect it. So it's about 80B/month. Was always wondering how it could be so cheap in the capital.

[OttoPollmann]

What is the frequency of collection in Bangkok?

Every other day in my area.

Came home about 03:00 the other night and the truck was at my condo block and the guys on the back of the truck were frantically ripping the bags open to see what they could salvage for themselves.

I don't know what they thought when they came accross my cat poo bag.

Better than U.K. where i believe you have to separate your rubbish into different bins (and are fined if you do it wrongly) and they are collected every two weeks or so!

They are looking for goods to sell.

Plastic/glass bottles, paper/cardboard and metal tins.

So this poor guys could make some additional income.

[monspencer]

Smoke drifting across highways is normally burning of fields - not garbage.

The post you are referring to is about the highway from the airport to Bangkok.

With apologies if I am wrong, but I can't recall seeing fields along there,

[phantomfiddler]

20 Baht per month is ridiculously cheap, and no-one should have any gripes about paying 150 Bht. We,ve been paying that much down in Pattaya for years

[Nuddy]

The garbage is much resource for these guys hanging off the local garbage truck in my town. They pull apart the bags and sort out any recycle stuff.

In our little area of the street there are 4 houses one of which was owned by a big boss from the Tessabahn (now Deceased) but his son, now the owner, is a VIP teacher in the town. My Thai family said I had to pay 20 Baht per month and I fronted up, many times, to the Tebssabahn to pay it only to be scammed.

The VIP Teacher yelled at me one day saying I didn't pay so he dragged the bin into his property. i started carting my garbage through their gate to the bin and was yelled at to get out. I thought ok I could put it on his driveway but decided thats too much and will result in too many hassles.

Now we take the bag of rubbish out with us when we go out and drop it in the bins around town. Its not much as we have a dog and as well wife recycles so is one plastic bag per day.

Whats my point....if they did not scam me I would happily pay but now I am determined never tho pay.

Regards

[northernphil]

I certainly am happy to pay the increase should it appear up here in the north but will the bins disappear along the little sois and the locals start dumping elsewhere. I certainly don't want them dumping on my patch ( nor leaving their lubbish )

[Shiver]

I'm in Udon rather than BKK, but in the 9 years I've been here, I've only been asked for payment (20 baht) 3 times which is obviously not even slightly close to enough, even if a lot of it is recycled by people digging through it to find stuff to take to the recycle place before the bin men get here. I'm perfectly happy to pay 150, though I live solo and also have a very small garbage 'footprint' (eating out reduces home garbage levels, plastics, cardboard boxes etc). Would it not be more fair to pay per person or per bag rather than per household? (yeah okay that would take some administration and perhaps not viable). It wouldn't change anything for me at all really, but wonder how they work out the numbers and the percentage change more than the actual baht difference. There is one bin at each end of the Soi (14 houses), where there used to be 4 or 5 previously, distributed along the Soi. Perhaps that is some accountants way of trying to reduce costs?

I'm not complaining about the price at all, as it is very much more effective than my home country. I'm just curious about how they do the numbers. If I can pay more to minimise peoples behaviour of throwing garbage out on the street, then I'll be the first to pay an increase.

More bins, less frequent visits, better fee collection would all be things I'd like to ask them about how they found the right balance.

Edited June 2, 2015 by Shiver

[Keesters]

20 Baht per month is ridiculously cheap, and no-one should have any gripes about paying 150 Bht. We,ve been paying that much down in Pattaya for years

Currently I'm paying 40 baht/month in Pattaya for 1 or 2 collections per week. Sometimes it's zero collections when some idiots park their cars opposite each other on the street and the truck can't get down.

[MJKT2014]

Perhaps they can invest some of the new cash into a driver training school? Garbage truck drivers seem to have no awareness of other road users on trips to/from their depots to the collection areas.

[colinneil]

We get our rubbish collected weekly.

Good service, workers come inside our gate for the black bags, but never try to open them !! with my disabilty !! i have to use pampers, the bags are never opened. Other houses bags are opened , but not mine.