Popular Post webfact Posted November 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2020 High waves bring deluge of foreign waste to Nakhon Si Thammarat beach By The Nation Two-metre waves in the Gulf of Thailand have forced fishermen in Nakhon Si Thammarat province to evacuate the area while foreign waste is being swept ashore. Locals have found lots of waste washed up on the beach in Hua Sai district. The labels on the waste showed that they were not products from Thailand, but from neighbouring countries. They said the storm usually brought the waste matter to the beach every year, resulting in degeneration of the environment in a place which was a tourist attraction. They said that there was no appropriate management by the local officials despite repeatedly facing the waste issue. Oil spill is another problem that the locals are concerned about, as it has damaged the ecosystem of the beach in the past, but there was no organisation taking responsibility. Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30398683 -- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-11-27 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sammieuk1 Posted November 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2020 Dirty foreigners again though a novel approach picking it up could work ???? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Some troll posts and replies have been removed. High waves bring deluge of foreign waste to Nakhon Si Thammarat beach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thechook Posted November 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2020 Foreigners cop the blame for all the woes in Thailand, you will never see a Thai litter. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Estrada Posted November 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2020 Meanwhile, those countries in question are suffering from Thai waste washing up on their shores. Pattaya and Bangkok are great examples where heavy rains cause floods and wash the rubbish from the bins into the sea. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChakaKhan Posted November 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 28, 2020 17 hours ago, sammieuk1 said: Dirty foreigners again though a novel approach picking it up could work ???? This happened when I volunteered in a fishing village in vietnam...next to a 5 star resort and untouched beach The problem? FISHERMEN...they would pitch trash right off the boat at night....just like the trash burners.. So in the morning, each day another mass of trash from currents...... So we tried to clean the trash, i recall the locals sitting on the beach laughing at us...we even bought big blue trash cans to try to get them to use them as the locals were just as bad...someone stole our new trash cans.. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 18 hours ago, webfact said: They said that there was no appropriate management by the local officials despite repeatedly facing the waste issue. I am lost for words... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 19 hours ago, webfact said: They said that there was no appropriate management by the local officials despite repeatedly facing the waste issue. Normal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sydebolle Posted November 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 28, 2020 Well, I stand corrected and I have to apologize to Anutin, the sweet heart of the public health ministry, who coined the "dirty farang" sentence. It is now proven, as the waste landing at the shores in Nakorn Sri Thammarat is from Malaysia and Vietnam (by the packaging). No Thai waste, or a very carefully selected photo, if not a set-up picture? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hanuman2547 Posted November 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 28, 2020 I'm sure that if you look at all the trash washing up on the beach you will find a fair amount of domestic generated trash as well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinneil Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Just now, Hanuman2547 said: I'm sure that if you look at all the trash washing up on the beach you will find a fair amount of domestic generated trash as well. Fair amount of domestic waste, what you saying? Good heavens Thais would never dream of casting away any waste, they always use litter bins, always take their litter home.???????? Can only be from dirty foreigners.???????? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 5 hours ago, ChakaKhan said: This happened when I volunteered in a fishing village in vietnam...next to a 5 star resort and untouched beach The problem? FISHERMEN...they would pitch trash right off the boat at night....just like the trash burners.. So in the morning, each day another mass of trash from currents...... So we tried to clean the trash, i recall the locals sitting on the beach laughing at us...we even bought big blue trash cans to try to get them to use them as the locals were just as bad...someone stole our new trash cans.. Time to re-read the novel 'The Ugly American'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Pie 47 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Sydebolle said: Well, I stand corrected and I have to apologize to Anutin, the sweet heart of the public health ministry, who coined the "dirty farang" sentence. It is now proven, as the waste landing at the shores in Nakorn Sri Thammarat is from Malaysia and Vietnam (by the packaging). No Thai waste, or a very carefully selected photo, if not a set-up picture? Don't they you can buy that stuff in Thailand as well? So if a bottle of coke gets washed up it has to come from the US. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 The headline and the article is so outrageously xenophobic... its atrocious. How much of the waste washing up on the Thai shores is actually Thai waste. How much Thai waste washes up on foreign shores? The issue itself is ‘waste’ and its an international issue, the insinuation by this article that Thailand is clean, pure, beyond reproach, while neighbouring countries are littering and polluting the environment is extremely distasteful and perhaps highlights the mindset of 'Thailand’ to side-step responsibility. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChakaKhan Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 18 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said: Time to re-read the novel 'The Ugly American'? I can just go on Parler, or visit the man child squatting in the peoples house, or switch on fox news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChakaKhan Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 18 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said: coke gets washed up it has to come from the US. or South America....(sniiiiiifffff) ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydebolle Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/28/2020 at 2:36 PM, Meat Pie 47 said: Don't they you can buy that stuff in Thailand as well? So if a bottle of coke gets washed up it has to come from the US. No Sir, but I can read Malayu/Bahasa and Vietnamese ....... The products, if sold in Thailand, would have to have some form of Thai on it - for obvious reasons. And if the Cola, quoted by you, would show up with the following lettering, it would not be US but Vietnamese .... ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 It may be that while the picture that illustrates the problem has possibly been selective in an attempt to apportion blame to elsewhere in Asia the truth is that the people of the entire region do not generally and collectively recognize the problem. Not personally nor officially in meaningful terms. Yet while the visual impact of the evidence of the accumulation of material waste in the oceans is significant it provides no comprehension of the invisible chemical wastes that pour in from almost all corners of the modern world. The sad fact is that while plastic waste has an impact on the oceanic environment it is the poisoning of the dwindling marine resources humans extract that few are made properly aware of that need be! The heavy metal content of fish is already to a point where responsible health advisories suggest limiting consumption of what should be a source of good protein. Those wonderful considerate nations that so responsibly remove consumer waste products and secrete them in some obscure location do not admit nor prevent the leachates of many metallic and poisonous compounds into water tables and eventually the oceans. There seems to be some ironical humor in the fat we can get so indignant about visual evidences of pollution but are less encouraged or willing to consider the pollution aspect created or disposed of in the manufacturing of that evidence. Or the cynical deliberate practice of using developing countries to manufacture on behalf of other in avoidance of regulatory requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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