Fly Tipping (Illegal Dumping of Waste Materiels)

[HHTel]

There is a municipal rubbish tip on soi 112

I know the site you're talking about. I used to live 2 mins away. When the wind's in the wrong direction the smell is awful. It was supposed to have been moved more than 2 years ago...TIT. However, it's not a municipal tip and classes itself as a recycling centre. There is no facility for private individuals to dump their rubbish there.

Having said that, there really needs to be a facility where you can dump rubbish. 'Fly tipping' is endemic all over Thailand. The Thais don't seem to have any pride in their own countryside. How many times do you see trucks and m/cycles throwing the remains of their plastic bag to the side of the road without thought. A good move (which is practiced all over Europe) would be to restrict the issue of plastic bags!!

Occasionally, where a site is popular for dumping rubbish, a policeman is placed to take (or fine) companies who illegally dump rubbish. Unfortunately, this is just another money grabbing scam by the police and nothing further is done.

Thais need to have some respect for their own environment. Will this happen? I doubt it.

[margaretcarnes]

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

Sadly it isn't a strange concept in England either Pete. A pathway between my place and a railway line - about 200 metres long - is constantly littered with unwanted goods ranging from old mattresses to TVs - plus the obligatory supermarket trolleys of course. Much of it ends up on the track side as well.
To add to the problem Railtrack have removed the vegetation down there which means that the few thoughtful folk who once stuck their empty cans onto branches now have to leave them on the ground. We do of course have regular bin collections. Also an annual allowance of free Council collection of large items, as well as passes for the Municipal tips. But some people will just never care.

[migrant]

Unfortunately it is common in other countries too. I remember in Honduras my old GF's son tossed wrappers on the ground even though a trash can was close. I commented and both he, and my GF, were surprised why I bothered. It was not unusual to see a family picnic on the beach, then leave with all the trash left where they were

[buksida]

This is not endemic to just Hua Hin or Thailand - the plastic generation extends right across Southeast Asia and dumping trash on any random empty chunk of land is common in all neighbouring countries.

Education is the key, maybe when their countries are just a soulless slab of polluted concrete like ours with most of the land and natural resources used up they might just think "shit, maybe we shouldn't have destroyed our environment". But then again maybe not - they'll just dump it all in the ocean instead ...

[Big Boy]

I accept that it happens everywhere, but my point is that the message to the world is Thailand has cleaned up it's beaches, and they are in pristine condition. The message doesn't include the fact that the rest of the country is likely to be a rubbish tip.

I would have much greater respect for what is going if rather than just whitewashing the bits that might appear in travel brochures, they developed longer term policies that will provide for proper waste management/educate people.

It's now been stated that the Soi 112 tip is not a public facility. So does anybody know what happens to the municipal waste collections? They must take the waste somewhere.

[buksida]

I accept that it happens everywhere, but my point is that the message to the world is Thailand has cleaned up it's beaches, and they are in pristine condition.

Dream on ...

[Big Boy]

Point taken.

I've seen Khao Takiab looking less than pristine as well.

Khao Takiab looking less than pristine

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But surely, the Army have cleansed the beaches now

[ste860]

big boy that is the place where the bin wagons are emptied its just not open for public use

they place skips around for that

you would not want to go there anyway the smell is stumach curning

[Big Boy]

OK, I can't say I've noticed the skips - are they anywhere in particular?

My reason for asking is that I recently had a bed settee, 2 armchairs and a mattress to dispose of. Fortunately, we found new (less fortunate) homes for all of it, but at one stage I was looking for the local tip - without success. Would the skips have been large enough for those items?

[dtaai-maai]

My reason for asking is that I recently had a bed settee, 2 armchairs and a mattress to dispose of. Fortunately, we found new (less fortunate) homes for all of it, but at one stage I was looking for the local tip -

It would never occur to me to 'dump' anything like that here. There's always a grateful home for such items not far away. If you don't know of anyone who wants them, I'm sure your neighbours will, or the local shop, or next door's gardener, etc. Glad you found someone.

[zeitgeist]

Sorry BB, looks like I mislead you.

[JamesWest]

Thailand is filthy everywhere you go. Every open space has trash piled up. Beer bottles. Homes with trash in the front yard. Roadsides. Beaches. Streets. Everything. Everywhere. Don't foget about black clouds of diesel in your face. It is just one big pile of garbage and filth.

[zeitgeist]

Thailand is filthy everywhere you go. Every open space has trash piled up. Homes with trash in the front yard. Roadsides. Everywhere. It will take decades to educate and change behavior. It will takes decades to undo the damage.

So you educate people to not dump and take the trash where?

[dtaai-maai]

Thailand is filthy everywhere you go. Every open space has trash piled up. Beer bottles. Homes with trash in the front yard. Roadsides. Beaches. Streets. Everything. Everywhere. Don't foget about black clouds of diesel in your face. It is just one big pile of garbage and filth.



I wish everyone would stop complaining and trying to change Thailand. If you don't like it please don't come here. It will be a sad day when all the unique culture, fun and freedom is gone. If you don't like the wild west, stay out of Dodge.

Irony. I love it.

[hhfarang]

stay out of Dodge.

Good advice because once you move half way around the world and decide you don't really like Dodge, it's kind of like Hotel California... "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"...