Unwelcome visitors to Pattaya - but where does this dross come from?

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Unwelcome visitors to Pattaya - but where does this dross come from?

Image: Sanook

 

PATTAYA: -- A huge swathe of rubbish has washed up on the beach in central Pattaya prompting head scratching tourists and locals to wonder: Where does it all come from?

Sanook.com reported a "raft of rubbish" littering the sea and beach from an area opposite the Pattaya police station all the way to Soi 7 last night.

 

Tourists were staring at the mess and one local who was born in the area long before it became a resort spoke wistfully about Pattaya's pristine past.

 

"It used to be lovely," said the unnamed local, "so people came to visit. I don't know where all this rubbish comes from - is it from the locals? Or from further afield? I don't know".

 

But they sure hope that the local authority will get their finger out and do something about it before the image of the resort is further sullied.

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-09-29

[Anthony5]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

A huge swathe of rubbish has washed up on the beach in central Pattaya prompting head scratching tourists and locals to wonder: Where does it all come from?

 

 

Not difficult at all to figure out where it comes from, since the city is known to dump collected garbage by the boatload in the sea.

[petermik]

It,s a dastardly attempt to blacken the image of Pattaya,s world acclaimed family beach resort

[onemorechang]

it come from years of excellent teaching in schools.

maybe we can get a few Falangs to go clean it up for them.

Amazing Thailand

Edited September 29, 2016 by onemorechang

[i claudius]

Pattaya used to be so clean ,well 20 years ago i can remember walking down beach road and seeing the raw sewidge  running into the sea over the beach at times .

[waldroj]

I wonder where it could have come from? http://pattayaone.news/en/thunderstorm-topples-30-year-old-samanea-saman-tree/

[Caveat Emptor]

It's a little more than dross and no doubt a suitable suggestion and or culprit will be found to completely exonerate Pattaya.  

[Alive]

It comes from people!  Less people = more chance for nature to recover and thrive. Humans only benefit humans. That's it. Humans created this and always will and they are upset at their reality. It's not them it's us. This is us. You should jump for joy when you see this. Take a dive in and rejoice in humanity.

[onemorechang]

16 minutes ago, Caveat Emptor said:

It's a little more than dross and no doubt a suitable suggestion and or culprit will be found to completely exonerate Pattaya.  

 

I have been led to believe,   there are 68 million suspects at large in Thailand.

with more on the way.

Edited September 29, 2016 by onemorechang

[LennyW]

Down the river from Bangkok, same as every year!

[user343434]

Time to wake up Thailand (and also the connectded countries).

 

In the North Sea you throw one plastic bottle into the sea and If the coast guard sees it you will be fined for a couple of 1000 EUR.

 

This was the payback of mother nature, the winds blew the garbage together and pushed all this crap to the beach.

 

NOW MENTION,

how many stories are here written. The Fisherman that had a drink and threw his water bottle over board. The People on the beach who thougt, out of sight out of mind and disposed their garbage into the sea.

And the many others that have done such sin mostly with a garbage bin just yards behind them.

Sad,  it does not need much intelligence but it seems that some are not even abble to think on this level and somehow the education of the children fails here totally. But how the kids can learn when the parents are not even able to leave a clean world for the kids behind.

 

[elgordo38]

4 hours ago, Alive said:

It comes from people!  Less people = more chance for nature to recover and thrive. Humans only benefit humans. That's it. Humans created this and always will and they are upset at their reality. It's not them it's us. This is us. You should jump for joy when you see this. Take a dive in and rejoice in humanity.

Looks like someone else is exporting their refuse to Thailand the dastardly dolts. Check the rubbish for something with a name and address on it. Call in the Garbagebusters to zap the problem.

[Borzandy]

I just saw the same thing in Jomtien Beach, seems normal for tourists and seats scam .

[Brer Fox]

11 minutes ago, Borzandy said:

I just saw the same thing in Jomtien Beach, seems normal for tourists and seats scam .

Farang tourist dross.

[onemorechang]

8 minutes ago, Brer Fox said:

Farang tourist dross.

 

Unlikely,   more like home grown irresponsible dross

[Brer Fox]

8 minutes ago, onemorechang said:

 

Unlikely,   more like home grown irresponsible dross

Agreed but someone has to take the blame and it couldn't possibly be Thai locals or Thai tourist boat operators or Chinese or other Asian tourists. Who else then could it be then other than farang? 

[IAMHERE]

If any of the cans or bottles have tax stamps on them they could be found out where they were manufactured and sold. If Thailand had submarines this wouldn't happen maybe. With the storms the last several weeks those bottles could have floated up from another country. 

 

[onemorechang]

12 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

If any of the cans or bottles have tax stamps on them they could be found out where they were manufactured and sold. If Thailand had submarines this wouldn't happen maybe. With the storms the last several weeks those bottles could have floated up from another country. 

 

 

They had one once,   maybe still there. ? 

 

 

[JHolmesJr]

Pattaya is all about filth…literally and figuratively.

 

I like filth….in two week doses.

 

Deal with it.

Edited September 29, 2016 by JHolmesJr

[SOTIRIOS]

...duhh....

 

...where do you see dumping...dozens of times a day....

 

...don't try to pin this on the foreigners too....

 

...foreigners. pay fortunes....and even all they have...to get here and to live here....

 

 

...motive....profit....local businesses and industry....

 

...this is not heaven and they are not angels....

[Colabamumbai]

It is called "Thainess"  welcome to our beautiful country.

 

[leggo]

I first came to Jomtien beach over 30 years ago and stayed at the Sugar Hut (then it was on the beach next to the Coppacabana) and there was nothing else - it was a little paradise BUT the sea wasn't. When the tide went out it was wall to wall plastic ; in those days it came from anywhere north of Pattaya including Bangkok and has been building up since - can you imagine how much crap has been thrown into the klongs and sea in all that time -doesn't bare thinking about -too late now -one day it'll be a sea of plastic and I don't reckon that time is too far off. Very sad how stupid man is in his greed and laziness!

[sn1per]

It's probably floated in from the new Samui garbage incinerator overspill plan..... 

 

[nakhonandy]

7 hours ago, LennyW said:

Down the river from Bangkok, same as every year!

Very true. However not just Bangkok. 

 

All the rivers flowing into the gulf are pouring loads of rubbish from all areas to the north.

 

It is normal at this time of the year unfortunately. All the discarded junk flows into the sea due to the huge volume of water from the rains. A very small minority of it is actually from the Pattaya area. 

[Grubster]

2 hours ago, nakhonandy said:

Very true. However not just Bangkok. 

 

All the rivers flowing into the gulf are pouring loads of rubbish from all areas to the north.

 

It is normal at this time of the year unfortunately. All the discarded junk flows into the sea due to the huge volume of water from the rains. A very small minority of it is actually from the Pattaya area. 

Well thats where its from now, clean it up. Just kidding, what a mess.

[SteveB2]

11 hours ago, i claudius said:

Pattaya used to be so clean ,well 20 years ago i can remember walking down beach road and seeing the raw sewidge  running into the sea over the beach at times .

 

How very true...

 

Back then, a huge 4ft diameter sewage main spewed an excrement torrent straight from the bowels of hell into Pattaya bay from the end of the old US Navy liberty pier.

 

The e-coli count on Pattaya Beach was so bad that any contact with the water was not recommended. 

 

A toxic green slime lay at the waters edge carrying with it ripe whole turds, sanitary towels, rubbish, used condoms and other filth.

 

Though it's true enough... people didn't worry so much about pollution back then - the concern was that the sea might actually catch fire 

[Xircal]

5 hours ago, onemorechang said:

 

They had one once,   maybe still there. ? 

 

 

 

 

[Xircal]

I don't understand why the drinks manufacturers don't charge say 5 or even 10 Baht deposit on a bottle. Even if people continued to throw them away at least they'll be some locals willing to pick them up to collect the deposit and make a bit of extra cash in the process.

 

All they'd have to do would be to take them to supermarkets to redeem them  Most European supermarkets have automatic collection points which dispense a receipt which can be cashed or used in lieu of payment for goods at the checkouts.

 

I sure the same thing wouldn't cost that much to introduce and could help significantly towards reducing the mountains of waste that finds its way into the sea every day.

[Jonmarleesco]

'... do something about it before the image of the resort is further sullied.' I shouldn't have thought that was possible.

[MarkmBha]

Few respect nature -