Fly Tipping (Illegal Dumping of Waste Materiels)

[Big Boy]

We are continually hearing about the beaches of Thailand being cleaned up to improve the country's tourism image. What about the roads the same tourists have to travel along to reach the pristine beaches?

I regularly travel the new (barely 1 year old) link road from Soi 94 to Soi 102. It is quite disturbing to see the amount of fly tipping at the side of this road. OK, there isn't a beach at either end of the road, but the problem is nationwide.

I've prepared a short video from my Dash Cam footage to demonstrate, but this will be nothing new to those of you living in Thailand.

I'm not sure what the answer is though. As far as I know, there aren't any municipal rubbish tips.

[zeitgeist]

There is a municipal rubbish tip on soi 112

[PeteC]

My experience in my neck of the woods is that nothing will be done until it gets so bad some official becomes offended by it. You'll then see BIG formal wooden signs, red barrier tape and a massive cleanup.

Laziness and disregard will simply continue somewhere else though unfortunately.

PS: "Fly Tipping" is a challenging concept for non-British. Pete

[Big Boy]

There is a municipal rubbish tip on soi 112

Is there? Where is it close to please? I've been the whole length of the Soi many times, but have never noticed it. Must be keeping my eyes on the road

[Nereus]

PS: "Fly Tipping" is a challenging concept for non-British. Pete

I mis-read it and thought it was "fly ripping".

[Dannie Boy]

Dumping rubbish, whether it be a whole pickup/lorry load or simply throwing rubbish from the car window is endemic throughout Thailand. Whilst it's true that there aren't a great number of official municipality rubbish tips there are some, but I doubt very much that if they doubled/trebled the number, people would still fly tip.

[zeitgeist]

There is a municipal rubbish tip on soi 112

Is there? Where is it close to please? I've been the whole length of the Soi many times, but have never noticed it. Must be keeping my eyes on the road

Not really on 112 but as most of the soi's don't have names or numbers I just call it 112.
As you drive up 112, turn right when you see the sign for Emerald housing project and follow the until it forks and bear right.

[Big Boy]

Thank you - I'll make a point of trying to find it. I'm assuming anybody can use it.

[PeteC]

Ok, got this from Wiki which explains the roots: "The term fly tipping is derived from the verb tip, meaning "to throw out of a vehicle" and on the fly, meaning "on the wing" – to throw away carelessly or casually...."

[Khundon1975]

When the wife was in Thailand a few weeks ago, she had several large trees cut down at the house.

This was done bye a local contractor with a lorry, to take away the 3 loads of waste.

He was away for about 3 hours each load, dumping the waste, but would not tell the wife exactly where it was being tipped, only telling her that he had some land where it would be tipped.

I suspect but I'm not sure, that it was just dumped on "waste land" as most waste is disposed of in Thailand.

At least, being organic waste, it would eventually rot down, unlike the rubbish in BigBoys video.

[Big Boy]

Yes, the mess in the video is mainly builders rubble (used to be sold as hardcore in the UK?), with the occasional sofa and mattress intermingled.

[migrant]

Ok, got this from Wiki which explains the roots: "The term fly tipping is derived from the verb tip, meaning "to throw out of a vehicle" and on the fly, meaning "on the wing" – to throw away carelessly or casually...."

Reading the title I was thinking of cow tipping and wondered how it applied to flies

[Big Boy]

OMG, you guys have got to learn to speak proper English like what we does

[Bristolian]

^^ agreed. But then we wouldn't need to talk about trash. Rubbish would suffice unless I'm talking rubbish/trash

[bsdk1960]

each time I'm up and fishing in Khorat with my BIL I always insist that we take our rubbish/trash with us,and every bloddy time
he looks at me like I'm comming from the moon.
Found a way to make him do it : told him there will be no food or Beer since that never a problem