Garbage problem

[sambum]

I see the garbage problem at Koh Samui is still far from being resolved - 8 years since it started! From today's news:-

 

"Garbage situation in Koh Samui completely out of control. Mr. Anond Wathayanont, a member of the development committee of Koh Samui has said the garbage pie has now reached approximately 250,000 tons and the pile is now the same height as a three story building."

 

(I presume a garbage "pie" is the same as a garbage "pile"!)

Edited July 14, 2017 by sambum

[observer90210]

Not to mention the virus, various pests and disease it will attract on that island!

Edited July 14, 2017 by observer90210

[swissie]

I have spyes all over Thailand. Agent "Boulderdash XXI" reports:

 

- The garbage pile will soon be officially declared as a Tourist-Attraction. A wildlive preserve, where Rats can live in their natural environment, not having to live in Hotel-and Restaurant Kitchens anymore.

 

Entrance fees will be 40 Bht for Thai's / 400 Bht for Tourists.
Cheers.

[williamgeorgeallen]

well if samui can call koh tao death island then koh tao can call koh sami trash island. nothing like a bit of trash talk about your neighbor.

[Tchooptip]

Usually I appreciate Samui forum because there is very few trash talking 

[renevanb7]

Samui is more and more changing in a big garbage belt. Why, besides one of the over more than 9 years not working incinerator the lack of collection of the garbage. Hotels and resorts pay, and their garbage is collected.  If you have a household the only thing you can do is put your bags with garbage besides the roads. With some luck it will be collected. Smaller bags thrown on the shoulders of the road and bags opened by dogs remain where they are. For I don't want to live in a street (Maenam, Soi 4) which looks like a garbage belt, I clean the shoulders of the road myself. Here some pictures of what I collected in a couple of hours. This is without the bags full of plastic bottles I collect to recycle. This I have to do every week. It's of no use to contact the Samui government about this, for you don't get an answer. 

[HTC]

Thought you'd collected a snake for a second!

 

Rubbish gets dumped, a sign goes up not to dump it here, more rubbish gets dumped that covers the sign.

 

Can anyone post a Google Maps pin link to where the rubbish pile is located. I want to go and see it.

[digger70]

Isn't it a problem in the Whole country? From what I have seen no matter where you go. It's all the same, Rubbish all over the place.

[Deli]

Why not taking all the garbage of Samui to Ko Tao ?

They have plenty of rats to feed on it

[cracker1]

The garbage pile is behind the prison on the same road.

[tryasimight]

What do you propose to do about it?

[martin.s]

Dz

[ajarnmarc]

I'm surprised that no one has posted any photos of the dump site situation.

One might have to consider, after 8 years of the trash just piling up, 

how long would it take to burn and recycle what is there now?

Then there's the issue of all the rodents which have been feeding happily on this waste over all these years, 

and multiplying in the process,  

most likely at alarming rates,

since there's such an abundance of food for the little guys (rodents).

 

A single female rat normally has 15 rats per litter,

and normally can develop up to 17 litters in a single year.

So the rats ability to multiple in a range of 170+ rates per year,

with just a single happy rat, 

it's easy to see what kind of issues could develop,

just from the Rats side.

With a single Rat and it's descendants,

they could multiply out to be 15,000 rats per year.

It only gets worse after that, 

a pair of rats can produce 482,508,800 descendants in just three  years.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4429886/Rats-produce-half-BILLION-descendants-three-years.html

Now this is just considering the Rats,

the list could go on & on about what could be the result of all this waste just being stock piled,

for Snakes and other rodents to feed off;

in the process multiplying exponentially.

I certainly feel for all the residents in the nearby area...

The whole issue is a very serious matter,

and if they could just get their equipment in order, 

there's a gold mine of money to be made from recycling this waste...

 

 

[livingmakmak]

Engineer a landfill, fund it, use quality leachate german grade, educate on recycling like in japan korea or singapore, enforce it, oh and also throw in a couple of cats. Oh nvm I just remembered we're talking about thailand


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[khunPer]

14 hours ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

well if samui can call koh tao death island then koh tao can call koh sami trash island. nothing like a bit of trash talk about your neighbor.

What about the Koh Tao trash mountain..?

[williamgeorgeallen]

4 hours ago, khunPer said:

What about the Koh Tao trash mountain..?

too late, they are already infamous for something else.

[cracker1]

Many country's like Germany,Norway, Sweden, are importing garbage from other countries so perhaps there is an opportunity there ?

[sambum]

20 hours ago, ajarnmarc said:

I'm surprised that no one has posted any photos of the dump site situation.

One might have to consider, after 8 years of the trash just piling up, 

how long would it take to burn and recycle what is there now?

Then there's the issue of all the rodents which have been feeding happily on this waste over all these years, 

and multiplying in the process,  

most likely at alarming rates,

since there's such an abundance of food for the little guys (rodents).

 

A single female rat normally has 15 rats per litter,

and normally can develop up to 17 litters in a single year.

So the rats ability to multiple in a range of 170+ rates per year,

with just a single happy rat, 

it's easy to see what kind of issues could develop,

just from the Rats side.

With a single Rat and it's descendants,

they could multiply out to be 15,000 rats per year.

It only gets worse after that, 

a pair of rats can produce 482,508,800 descendants in just three  years.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4429886/Rats-produce-half-BILLION-descendants-three-years.html

Now this is just considering the Rats,

the list could go on & on about what could be the result of all this waste just being stock piled,

for Snakes and other rodents to feed off;

in the process multiplying exponentially.

I certainly feel for all the residents in the nearby area...

The whole issue is a very serious matter,

and if they could just get their equipment in order, 

there's a gold mine of money to be made from recycling this waste...

 

 

And this is an old photo!

 

http://www.samuitimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/samui-garbage-crisis-1.jpg

Edited July 16, 2017 by sambum

[ajarnmarc]

On 7/16/2017 at 5:23 PM, sambum said:

And this is an old photo!

 

http://www.samuitimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/samui-garbage-crisis-1.jpg

Thank you for the photo.

What a surprise to see such neglect and oversight.

Appreciate you time in posting this.

Cheers

[PoorSucker]

Fly dumping on road sides is done by two categories, people that can not afford 20 baht per month. 

 

Then you have the people that build houses on mountain slopes where the garbage truck can not reach, mostly foreigner, please drive your garbage to the dump yourself, don't fly tip. 

[sambum]

7 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

Fly dumping on road sides is done by two categories, people that can not afford 20 baht per month. 

 

Then you have the people that build houses on mountain slopes where the garbage truck can not reach, mostly foreigner, please drive your garbage to the dump yourself, don't fly tip. 

Question - what is happening to all the green "wheelie bins" in Samui? They seem to be disappearing at a fantastic rate, and it won't be long before the WWF put them on the Endangered Species list along with the Rhinoceros and the Giant Panda!

Edited July 31, 2017 by sambum