News Forum - Bangkok levies heavy fines for those who litter in waterways

[Thaiger]

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is levying heavy fines for those who are caught throwing rubbish into the city’s waterways. The administration says it collects 9,000 tonnes of trash a day from the city’s canals. Some of those items include old mattresses and waste. Governor Chadchart Sittipunt says most of the waste is collected around Phra Khanong pumping station as workers collect five to six tonnes of rubbish from there every day. According to the Bangkok Post, Chadchart says City Hall is increasing its inspections as waste sometimes gets stuck in water pipes. The waste damages the water pipes which have […]

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[Pinetree]

There are thousands of families living and selling/buying,  in stilted accommodation on the river and in the Klongs. No real sanitation and no trash collection that is obvious.  Until that situation is changed and I don't see how that can happen, as it has been like this for literally hundreds of years, heavy fines are meaningless. Solve the poverty and maybe you solve the trash problem. 

[Ramanathan.P]

Good initiative....kindly enlighten us how are you going to identify when every commercial outlets including small vendors are using plastic in basically everything. Get rid of plastics totally from BKK. Then easy to control or charge 10 THB for every plastic bag that is used at outlets and channel that money to green lung development in the city

[Giltee]

To succeed Thailand needs abundant rubbish bins, decent rubbish collection and recycle bins. Before that’ll help children need to be educated by their parents who also need to educate their parents to put rubbish in a bin. I pick up rubbish everyday outside my house. Children and older folks are the worst offenders. 

[Cabra]

Littering and illegal dumping is two sides of the same coin, and a widespread problem to be sure. And while they can't solve all the rubbish problems at once, I like the idea of going after the large scale problem of illegal dumping (of sofas and mattress, etc.).