Clean up Phuket! Mayor launches campaign to clear garbage from Patong streets 

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

 

PHUKET: Tired of huge bags of rubbish on the streets of Phuket’s busiest tourist town, Patong Mayor Chalermluck Kebsup is having a smartphone app developed that will allow the public to report with photos and GPS co-ordinates unsightly piles to be collected by a roaming garbage truck dedicated to responding to the complaints.

 

“There is too much garbage on our streets. Even with our teams out every night collecting rubbish, it’s still there. The garbage situation in Patong is worrying,” Mayor Chalermluck told The Phuket News this week.

 

“In some areas, the garbage bins are overflowing and the rubbish spills onto the ground. We try to keep these areas clean, but there is too much rubbish and the problem remains. It does not look good at all.”

 

A key contributing factor to the sheer volume of garbage dumped on the streets of Patong are residents and businesses placing their rubbish on the footpaths for collection outside the indicated collection hours, Mayor Chalermluck explained.

 

“We keep telling people to place their rubbish on the street for collection only between 6pm and 2am, but they keep dumping it beside the road at all hours.

 

“Regular garbage collection hours do not work when people only do what suits themselves,” she added.

 

The app, developed under the Smart City policy, will be operational – in English and Thai – by April, Mayor Chalermluck confirmed.

 

“The app is being developed as a part of creating Patong’s future. The Phuket committee responsible for the Smart City projects gave Patong the chance to benefit from this, so I asked for this application,” she said.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/clean-up-phuket-mayor-launches-campaign-to-clear-garbage-from-patong-streets-61348.php#6tEhkQohj0XVCtOv.97

 

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2017-03-12

 

 

By the way, the app requires a facebook account. Comments regarding this fact are deleted by Phuket News.

Wonderful....please come to Pattaya next!

How can "bins be overflowing" when there are no bins.

Just put some bins out there and then empty them. It's not rocket science.

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

“There is too much garbage on our streets.

The real problem is where to put it that is out of the eyes of the tourists.  Is this incinerator actually working or broken??

 

2 hours ago, little mary sunshine said:

Wonderful....please come to Pattaya next!

I will put him up in a different hotel every night if he agrees.

 

The problem looks minor in Phuket though compared to Pattaya.

 

Full credit to him for getting on top of the problem BEFORE it ends up like Pattaya.

You can first start with the Police, they're a load of rubbish !

2 hours ago, sikishrory said:

How can "bins be overflowing" when there are no bins.

Just put some bins out there and then empty them. It's not rocket science.

My thoughts exactly...how hard can it be???

an app, what a load of nonsense. wonder how much money is being spent/pocked on setting that up. spend the money on getting the incinerator running. better get start burning the trash to generate some power.

17 hours ago, sikishrory said:

How can "bins be overflowing" when there are no bins.

Just put some bins out there and then empty them. It's not rocket science.

You forgot one main thing.  How do you empty them?