Donors asked not to use foams to contain food

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is now seeking cooperation from donors of food to thousands of mourners at Sanam Luang not to use Styrofoam to contain food as now it has become a headache for authorities to dispose of this kind of containers.

 

It said that in almost two weeks when hundreds of thousands of mourners flocking to Sanam Luang to pay their last respect to His Majesty late King, a major problem which followed the huge crowd was garbage, particularly the  Styrofoam food containers.

 

BMA officials said 50 tonnes of Styrofoam food containers had been dumped a day, thus making the disposal a headache although several agencies concerned were seeking the solution to address the problem.

 

Most food container is made from polystyrene foam which was widely known as Styrofoam.

 

The Styrofoam food containers are the biggest volume of rubbish, some 50 tonnes per day, followed by the recycled rubbish with 45 tonnes per day and wet waste from food  for 32 tonnes per day.

 

BMA’s Department of Environment director Suwanna Jungrungrueng said Styrofoam was the rubbish which would take more than 100 years to decompose so that it would cause major environment problem and waste budget to dispose of.

 

Now many agencies including Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, BMA, and PTT plc have realized the problem and have jointly launched the campaign to use biodegradable containers made from, tapioca, corn starch and bagasse, instead   which would eventually ease the environment problem.

 

These kinds of containers could be decomposed into carbon dioxide, water and bio waste which will pose no danger to the environment.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/donors-asked-not-to-use-foams-to-contain-food/

 

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Isn't it the food vendors that sell their products in foam containers?  I think they should provide the vendors with an alternative packaging material.

".. not to use Styrofoam to contain food as now it has become a headache for authorities to dispose of this kind of containers. "

As good an argument for outlawing those containers everywhere in the kingdom, as they have been in my home town.

why don't they just ban it? they ban it during loy krathong. Its not as if there is no easy substitute, many developed Asian countries use paper containers / plastic container which are more easily recycled.

Wow, Thailand finally getting environmentally conscious!

"These kinds of containers could be decomposed into carbon dioxide, water and bio waste which will pose no danger to the environment" In fact the plants they are made from adsorb CO2 from the atmosphere but on degradation release the same amount of CO2 back into the atmosphere. Therefore they are not environmentally friendly as we need to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and lock it away.