Thailand saying "NO!" to plastic bags: End in sight as January 1st "D-Day" looms

[jvs 5,659]

1 minute ago, ZAKY said:

How will these thousand and thousand working people going to manage carrying their lunch at work? Tom yam in paper bags?

How did they carry their food 60 years ago?

[sawadee1947 3,738]

5 hours ago, marcusb said:

This is what gets me.  I am always on my motorbike, so I always have my backpack on. I haven't used store bags for a couple years. When I empty my backpack out at home I am dismayed by all the plastic on the table. 

 Plastic bags are a start but we need to get the manufacturers cutting out the packaging or using plastic alternatives. 

 In Europe they started already. The big 2 (Aldi, Lidl)  are promoting veggies and fruits without plastic covers.

[bluejets 98]

 

So, will it "work" like in Aus where one can have as many as one likes so long as one pays 15c each......some <deleted> attempt , never works when all boils down.

Anyone seen the "recycle storage" delima currently faced in Aus?

[dcnx 8,406]

Sure. Mom and pops and all the venders on the street will still be in full plastic mode. Bags for your bags.

[jvs 5,659]

15 minutes ago, ukrules said:

I don't see what the problem is with plastic, it wasn't a problem for the last 40 or so years. What's changed recently?

 

 

 

Edited November 13, 2019 by jvs
decided it is better to delete my answer,worldpeace and all that.

[HHTel 2,337]

I think something's been lost in translation here.  The 3 types of plastic banned by the end of this year and announced some time ago are:

 

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By the end of 2019 Thailand will be free from three types of plastic – microbeads, cap seals and oxo-degradable plastics.

Single use plastic bags will become illegal by 2021 with a campaign starting in January 2020.

 

However, most major retailers including CP All (7/11's) have signed an agreement to stop issuing plastic bags from January next year (2020)

[korkenzieher 448]

Most people forget that most of the 'double-wrapped, and in plastic not paper' was all government mandated in the first place - so a lot of shops are effectively under regulatory obligation to use plastic wrapping. The bags issue is in essence, a sop to the environmentalists and is being successful because it allows supermarkets to turn a cost (free check-out bags which we then use for garbage) into a profit centre, because we now all need to buy bags for garbage. Just wait until the councils have to start emptying bins with un-bagged trash, to see where the 'money shot' truly is.

[natway09 5,098]

I am confused now.

The green bags we use for our wet rubbish for CORRECT disposal.  (recycled) as I am sure that thousands do,,,,, so now I go & buy bags for my wet rubbish or just throw it in the big black bucket at the end of the corridor.

This is not being thought through at all.

It is about correct disposal of plastics NOT the plastic itself

 

[Liverpudlian 1,286]

6 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

How about those kids in Isarn that like to use 7-Eleven bags instead of condoms?

The correct term for this neck of the woods is Isaan & most kids here bareback 

[Swede65 116]

Here in Sweden we're going to get tax on plastic grocery bags, like 80cents US$. All to reduce plastic waste. What we didn't know was that our plastics end up in the Oceans! We thought it was taken care of by either landfills or recycling!

[PEE TEE 645]

Good idea. also no more Plastic boobs as they could come under plastic bags   The unmentioned  other bag ban

[Gandtee 2,359]

7 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

How about those kids in Isarn that like to use 7-Eleven bags instead of condoms?

That would liven things up if it had been used for a spicy sausage.

[IssanMichael 411]

8 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

How about those kids in Isarn that like to use 7-Eleven bags instead of condoms?

pity your parents didn't

[Jimbo2014 2,587]

Like they said no to diesel emissions in Bangkok and crop burning rurally 

[sambum 3,841]

7 hours ago, marcusb said:

This is what gets me.  I am always on my motorbike, so I always have my backpack on. I haven't used store bags for a couple years. When I empty my backpack out at home I am dismayed by all the plastic on the table. 

 Plastic bags are a start but we need to get the manufacturers cutting out the packaging or using plastic alternatives. 

Correct! I got "slagged off" a while ago for buying cheese slices where all the slices are separated by thin sheets of plastic. There are types of cheese slices available without, but almost impossible to separate, and I don't like the brand anyway. Could they not use some kind of greaseproof paper instead?