webfact Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Pattaya: Action called for stinking dump with potential to damage tourism Picture: Sophon Cable TV Sophon Cable TV reported complaints from residents in South Pattaya about an area of private land on the way to Thepprasit Soi 7. Filthy for ages the area was a fly infested tip filled with all manner of trash spilling over into the road. Sophon said it was disgraceful and could damage tourism as well as public health. Picture: Sophon Cable TV However, there appears to have been a response to the calls for action. Poster "Louise Berner" put a picture on the Sophon site showing that some effort had been made to clear up and thanked another person and City Hall. Source: Sophon Cable TV -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-10-09 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacuum Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 5 minutes ago, webfact said: Sophon said it was disgraceful and could damage tourism Not really a tourist area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 16 minutes ago, webfact said: Action called for stinking dump with potential to damage tourism So that's why no one is visiting Thailand any more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giddyup Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Clean it up and there will be more rubbish dumped within a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerryd Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 There was a soi like that a few hundred meters from where I'm living. I'd walk/jog past there in the early morning and see people (on scooters and in cars) drive by, stop, throw a bag of trash onto the pile and then drive away. Why ? Because it's "free". No monthly fee to have your garbage collected. Save that 100 baht (or whatever) for more important things, like makeup or beer. "Mai phen rai" There are dozens of sois around the area just like it. And then some developer comes in, scoops up the garbage (and probably dumps it in some other similar location) and builds over top the site. I mean **** - we pay 175 baht a month in our "village", which pays for the street lights, the security guys at the front and the twice weekly garbage pick-up. It's not that expensive. Used to shake my head when I rode past one such "dump site" where people (and contractors) would dump normal garbage as well as construction waste. Right beside a "fishing pond" restaurant ! I can only imagine what the results would be if they ever tested the water those fish are living in (before being caught and ingested). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katipo Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Well that's not going to bring the Indian tourists in, they can see that kind of thing in their own country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colabamumbai Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Like most villages in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mok199 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Deflection from the real problem ..Pattaya beach and beach rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Tourism was damaged years ago. The locals must getting worried about their businesses these days and think they can save Pattaya by pointing out the obvious. BIg piles of garbage everywhere is normal in Thailand and there are no quick solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 As I have said previously, to Thai's everything outside the pick-up window is a trash bin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 hours ago, webfact said: Action called for stinking dump with potential to damage tourism For a minute I thought they were referring to Pattaya as a whole.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomfiddler Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 4 hours ago, Katipo said: Well that's not going to bring the Indian tourists in, they can see that kind of thing in their own country. It,s not going to deter them either ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomfiddler Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 While sitting in a bar in one of the Pattayaland sois last night I was almost knocked off my bar stool by the foul stench steaming out of a nearby "storm drainage" manhole inlet ???? At some time in the future the people who install these systems will have to realize the benefits of a progressive fall in the drainage lines, such that standing waste will not occur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyboy2018 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Alas their are many such pop up dumps around Pattaya. In the UK its called fly tipping. Here around Pratumnak cozy beach there is a foul dump at one end of the beach. When the army visited the beach to stamp out small businesses. They ignored the dump on two occasions. On cozy beach rd there is another tip opposite the Dolphin hotel though this informal dump does get cleared intermittently. The whole of cozy beach rd is dirty and littered. Last year a german hippy and some locals tried to clear it up. On Pratumnak soi 4 there is a similar dump that stinks about 200 yards down. On the main drag, Thapraya there is another dump kinda opposite the old Brunos. Some of the waste is normal domestic waste and some semi industrial. Its a civic problem and as ever a financial problem. One advantage the Thais have with this problem is that they dont have to deal with professional dumpers such as the Roma and Travellers who cause terrible problems with illegal dumping and fly tipping in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Town Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I know exactly where this place is. NO tourist knows where this place is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odysseus123 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 9 minutes ago, J Town said: I know exactly where this place is. NO tourist knows where this place is. They will if the photo is ever posted on facebook-under the rubric "Come to Thailand-if you've seen one garbage dump you've seen 'em all.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30la Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Probably all this is part of the promotion campaign for the 1st class family resort Pattaya! In the whole of Thailand the same situation, the tourism minister could promote a garbage campaign, he could see himself daily in the media nationwide! This in any case is one of the many reasons for the decrease in tourists! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 15 hours ago, hotchilli said: For a minute I thought they were referring to Pattaya as a whole.. I thought it was soi 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 World class Dump, I have one every morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 hours ago, ChipButty said: World class Dump, I have one every morning Lucky man..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 22 hours ago, hotchilli said: For a minute I thought they were referring to Pattaya as a whole.. Take the 'w' off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer90210 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 They better in this case make a national check all over the country as there is no shortage all over of such unacceptable and disgraceful dumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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