News Forum - Phuket mayor asks public to stop throwing rubbish in canals

[Thaiger]

Phuket’s city mayor has asked residents in 3 target areas of the island province’s main city district to stop throwing rubbish in canals. The mayor, Saroj Angkanapilas, said that city officials have been working to solve flooding problems in the areas. He said… “We ask all residents to use the bins that the municipality has available to reduce the amount of waste found in the canals.” Saroj said that Phuket’s governor has regularly visited the areas to address the flooding problem. He also thanked the provincial office of the Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning. Saroj noted […]

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[Prosaap]

Tell them stop eat rice will have the same result why think about a clean canal tomorrow if you can trow your garbage in the canal today save you walk 2 meter for put it in the bin

[Guest1]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

Phuket’s city mayor has asked residents in 3 target areas of the island province’s main city district to stop throwing rubbish in canals.

While he is mention rubbish, how about telling EVERYONE on the island, the dirt from the driveway and from the sidewalk in front of the house, even the road in front of it, not to sweep  that dirt into the sewer.  It might not be much, every day, but over time and with some dry weeks/month, they "may fill up a bit. And that can be part of the next flood, then

[palooka]

28 minutes ago, Guest1 said:

While he is mention rubbish, how about telling EVERYONE on the island, the dirt from the driveway and from the sidewalk in front of the house, even the road in front of it, not to sweep  that dirt into the sewer.  It might not be much, every day, but over time and with some dry weeks/month, they "may fill up a bit. And that can be part of the next flood, then

Heck, took hundreds of years to put those drains in and now you want them to clean them?

[Guest1]

58 minutes ago, palooka said:

Heck, took hundreds of years to put those drains in and now you want them to clean them?

That is the next thing, cleaning them, AFTER half of the hill got flushed into it, would be a good thing, too.

Or every year minimum once, just before the rainy season?

But for the topic, I only would like  to see them not to be used as disposal for everything, the locals don't wanna put in garbage bags.

[Malc-Thai]

The 6 bins we use are 100 metres from our house and serve over 150 houses..they are full by 9am and emptied in the late evening... bags are then piled up on the floor around the bins.. its right next to the river! .. guys come along and split the bags looking for something of value and leave the rubbish on the floor , as soon as the wind picks up a lot gets blown into the river!  I personally don't see people throwing rubbish into the river just the wind doing it

[Highlandman]

17 hours ago, Prosaap said:

Tell them stop eat rice will have the same result why think about a clean canal tomorrow if you can trow your garbage in the canal today save you walk 2 meter for put it in the bin

Apples and oranges. They can eat all the rice they want, it doesn't cause anyone any harm. Throwing trash in the canal is illegal, selfish and stupid behavior. They could easily enforce it by fining or even jailing people. That would send a message.

[Highlandman]

1 hour ago, Malc-Thai said:

The 6 bins we use are 100 metres from our house and serve over 150 houses..they are full by 9am and emptied in the late evening... bags are then piled up on the floor around the bins.. its right next to the river! .. guys come along and split the bags looking for something of value and leave the rubbish on the floor , as soon as the wind picks up a lot gets blown into the river!  I personally don't see people throwing rubbish into the river just the wind doing it

Where do you live? Doesn't sound like the kind of community I'd like to live in. You do describe a real world situation though - quite often it's wind, or animals such as street dogs that create the mess, not necessarily deliberate discarding of garbage into the river.

On the other hand, years ago now, I observed how restaurants in Mae Sai, located right along the border with Tachilek, Myanmar, would discard trash into the Sai river, which forms the border with Myanmar. Some of this waste would end up flowing into the nearby Mekong at the Golden Triangle, especially during the rainy season when river levels swell and currents are strong.

[Malc-Thai]

53 minutes ago, Highlandman said:

Where do you live? Doesn't sound like the kind of community I'd like to live in. You do describe a real world situation though - quite often it's wind, or animals such as street dogs that create the mess, not necessarily deliberate discarding of garbage into the river.

On the other hand, years ago now, I observed how restaurants in Mae Sai, located right along the border with Tachilek, Myanmar, would discard trash into the Sai river, which forms the border with Myanmar. Some of this waste would end up flowing into the nearby Mekong at the Golden Triangle, especially during the rainy season when river levels swell and currents are strong.

In Patong past the fire station.. the dogs here are well looked after and never see them near the bags, just people picking through the bags.. and allowing the wind to do the rest, but in fairness many people do just put loose rubbish all around,  like bags and discarded drink cartons, because again the bins don't get emptied enough or not enough of them here in this location

[Morpheus]

Talk to the hand Mr Mayor because the face aint listening.