Cleanup campaign launched to get rid of garbage in Sanam Luang and around the Grand Palace

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Bangkok Metropolitan Administration launched a cleanup campaign Tuesday morning to dispose of a large amount of garbage discarded by mourners in Sanam Luang and around the Grand Palace.

 

An estimated 80,000 people paid tribute to the late King Bhumibol in the past several days and garbage from food containers and drinking water bottles discarded amount to about 66 tons a day which need to be collected.

 

About 3,000 officials and workers were mobilized on Tuesday by the City Hall to deal with the garbage problem. They were scattered across Sanam Luang and roads around the Grand Palace and stationed at ten points where garbage bins were placed.

 

There are three different kinds of garbage bins in three colours – green for leftover food, blue for general garbage and yellow for recycle garbage.

 

While the workers busily collected trash littered on the ground, officials asked mourners to discard food containers and empty drinking water bottles in different garbage bins.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/cleanup-campaign-launched-to-get-rid-of-garbage-in-sanam-luang-and-around-the-grand-palace/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-10-25

 

Mourners asked to bring their own plastic boxes to contain food in order to reduce the amount of garbage

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang has appealed to mourners to bring with them plastic boxes to contain food and canteens in order to reduce the huge amount of garbage generated each day at Sanam Luang and around the Grand Palace, which has become a big problem.

 

Pointing out that between 9,000-10,000 kgs of garbage are generated each day, he said that he would prefer food donors to switch from foam boxes for containing food to other materials paper boxes which are more easily dissolvable and will not pose an environmental problem like foam boxes.

 

Plastic boxes, said the governor, can be washed and reused and do not generate garbage just as canteens.

 

He said that student volunteers have been deployed at garbage bins to advise mourners of where they should discard their foam boxes and drinking water bottles among the three types of garbage bins.

 

The governor is, however, optimistic that about 2-3 months from now, the amount of garbage in Sanam Luang and around the Grand Palace will steadily drop as less people will arrive to pay tribute to the late King inside the Grand Palace.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/mourners-asked-to-bring-their-own-plastic-boxes-to-contain-food-in-order-to-reduce-the-amount-of-garbage/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-10-26

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What about bananaleaves to keep food in? Or boxes made of sugarcanefibre? Yes it costs more to produce but costs less to recycle.

Must have been a big surprise that mourners left rubbish behind!

16 hours ago, webfact said:

 

The governor is, however, optimistic that about 2-3 months from now, the amount of garbage in Sanam Luang and around the Grand Palace will steadily drop as less people will arrive to pay tribute to the late King inside the Grand Palace.

The new govenor is cleatly one of the sharpest knives in the junta box, less people=less garbage.

With a chap like this at the helm all bodes well for Bangkok.

Oh well. There's the rain and flood drainage systems blocked again.

How very lazy and thoughtless to just discard their rubbish like that.

 

What about taking rubbish home with you! Surely that is what is taught in schools! It was what I was taught and have stuck by for over 60 years. My wife complains that my pockets are always full of rubbish :-)