Bangkok style ecological awareness.

[STEVE G]

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry; the Thais save the ecology by throwing all their old garbage trucks in the sea:

BANGKOK, July 9 (TNA) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is moving ahead with a project using decommissioned city garbage trucks as artificial reefs which will become new coral habitats to revive the ecological system along the seashores of the southern provinces of Pattani and Narathiwat.

In 2006, the Bangkok's city hall government gave 189 garage trucks to the project to make a network of artificial coral-friendly bases under the royal initiative of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, Bangkok governor Apirak Kosayodhin said Monday.

While the project is successful, additional garbage trucks are needed as future habitats of aquatic animals, he said.

In the second phase of the project, the BMA will give 200 retired garbage trucks as artificial coral reefs and habitats of marine animals in order to reconstruct natural marine resources and the ecological system along the shorelines.

Parts of the trucks which can damage the marine environment will be removed before they are deposited in the seabed later this week. (TNA)-E004

[PeteC]

As a side note, I pass by a railroad depot near Sattahip when going to Rayong. For ages it was empty. It is now filled with the old style Thai boxcars, about 1960-70 era, perhaps 100+ of them. My guess they will get cleaned up and then dumped at sea to make more artificial reefs. The Thai Navy sinks an old ship about once a year in the same area for the same purpose. Pete

[STEVE G]

Pete, recently somewhere off the US they sank a whole aircraft carrier for reef making, which struck me as showing off a bit!

[Nereus]

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry; the Thais save the ecology by throwing all their old garbage trucks in the sea:

I did see some of the earlier lot that had been prepared for dumping, and all the mechanicals had been removed--just the body shell remained. Not sure about the tyres: they have become a major disaster in other parts of the world where they have been used for the same purpose.

[buksida]

I reckon they should do something like this off the coast of Hua Hin however with water visibility at less than a meter on a good day and hardly any marine life left out there I don't suppose there would be much to see.

Even artificial reefs need some catalysts to get them going.

[STEVE G]

Yes, I think you would struggle to get people to come on diving holidays if all you could offer was a murky view of a Bangkok garbage truck.

[komfortablynumb]

wow this is wonderful ecology.
Should i dump my old fish tank in the sea. Or a river?
It was a freshwater tank.

[STEVE G]

wow this is wonderful ecology.
Should i dump my old fish tank in the sea. Or a river?
It was a freshwater tank.

Maybe you should sling it in a forest where endangered species of squirrel could live in it.