Interior Ministry commands all provinces to adopt zero-waste measure

 

 

BANGKOK, 28 November 2016 (NNT) – The Ministry of Interior has directed all provinces to push forward the Zero Waste Thailand campaign, in keeping with the administration's one-year, civil-state guideline to reduce waste by 5 percent next year. 

Ministry Spokesperson Chayapol Thitisak revealed that the Cabinet meeting has tasked the Ministry of Interior with directing all provinces and local administrations on waste management according to the Zero Waste Thailand initiative.

 

He said all provinces have been instructed to adopt the 2017 waste management plan from October 2016 - September 2017 and uphold the Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle principle.

 

Central authorities have established the Zero Waste Thailand Operation Center to regularly report the campaign’s progress to the Cabinet. 

Each province will establish its own waste management committees at the provincial, district, and local administrative levels to direct waste management in their jurisdictions and determine area-specific practices. 

The one-year campaign aims to reduce the waste by 5 percent from 2016, and to achieve 40 percent penetration in waste management practices across the country.

 

-- nnt 2016-11-29

Zero waste? You've got to be kidding me.

 

Sure, Thailand and her populace produce way too much garbage, especially the one of the non-decomposing kind. But zero waste... not even First World countries have managed to achieve that.

It will be as successful as the Zero accident campaign, and the Zero corruption campaign etc.

 

The only thing Thailand is really successful in is the Zero law enforcement

maybe samui and koh tao would be a really good options to get this of the ground  ,

8 minutes ago, Anthony5 said:

It will be as successful as the Zero accident campaign, and the Zero corruption campaign etc.

 

The only thing Thailand is really successful in is the Zero law enforcement

I bring those canvas bags when I go shopping at Tops supermarket. You get extra points on your member card for not using their plastic bags. Great idea, but they might wanna promote it more. I never knew until the cashier told me. 

7 hours ago, rkidlad said:

I bring those canvas bags when I go shopping at Tops supermarket. You get extra points on your member card for not using their plastic bags. Great idea, but they might wanna promote it more. I never knew until the cashier told me. 

Plastic bags are not the problem as they would be easy to recycle.

Throwing them around everywhere is the problem !

 

As long as you can't control garbage management you can't control garbage production !

You don't saddle a horse from the tail. [like the Thai Government leadership likes to do all the time] 

My Mrs recycles a lot of the waste that we produce, my empty beer bottles, milk bottles, cardboard, newspapers, drinking water bottles etc etc, and she gets a few hundred Baht in the process, I have suggested that I buy her a 3 wheeler motorcy so she can roam the locality and rummage through bins but that fell on deaf ears  Can't think why ?

 

On a more serious note, I have always refused a bag at 7/11 or Tesco express etc when I buy just one item, they just seem to hand them out willy nilly without any thought on the environment. And whatever happened to plastic bags that are biodegradable ? 

If they only could get rid of all the corrupt people that's just waste of space 

Probably not recyclable, but that I can live with  

Commands!  Oh my.  Is this a crackdown?  Or what?  What what, what ya gonna do?

good. i will try to do my part too.

6 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

 

 

On a more serious note, I have always refused a bag at 7/11 or Tesco express etc when I buy just one item, they just seem to hand them out willy nilly without any thought on the environment. And whatever happened to plastic bags that are biodegradable ? 

 

i do the same too.

Now the staff of the 7-11s that I am a regular at knows me well and dont issue me plastic bags if there just a few hand carry items.

16 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

My Mrs recycles a lot of the waste that we produce, my empty beer bottles, milk bottles, cardboard, newspapers, drinking water bottles etc etc, and she gets a few hundred Baht in the process, I have suggested that I buy her a 3 wheeler motorcy so she can roam the locality and rummage through bins but that fell on deaf ears  Can't think why ?

 

On a more serious note, I have always refused a bag at 7/11 or Tesco express etc when I buy just one item, they just seem to hand them out willy nilly without any thought on the environment. And whatever happened to plastic bags that are biodegradable ? 

If only.

See my little rant on this subject with 7 Eleven here:

 

^^^^ Just read it 

Immigration could make a good start by cutting out millions of useless pieces of paper that are completely pointless.

 

The Banks are also guilty of using far too much paper for almost all transactions and they should move customers on to using cards more than books.   In my own country if i want to put money in or take money out at the counter i just give them one piece of plastic which they flash through the machine and job done unless you ask for paper receipts.

 

Went to Bangkok Bank yesterday at Mae Hia Big C branch, which is way too small and always overcrowded but we were in the complex, so the Mrs decided to change a load of Singapore Dollars back into Baht.   Oh dear; 45 minutes waiting time and then no less than five sheets of paper before she got her dosh.  They take so long to process one customer because of all the paperwork involved in almost everything they do.   Incredibly inefficient like most Thai organisations.

 

As for Supermarkets; the amount of bags they dish out is nothing short of scandalous; if you buy a couple of tins or bottles they use double bags for just two items and so on.   I refuse all bags and we use cloth everywhere. Now the Market traders know we don't want all those silly little bags they dish out like confetti !

Another directive, with no infrastructure, assigned resources or plan of execution.