Clean up Thailand day .

Monday the 26th June has been designated by His Majesty the King a special day for all to do their bit to make Thailand a better place to live for everyone. As part of that project we in Non Wau Sor have been working as a community with schools , police and government to highlight what we perceive to be some of the major ills. I have reported more fully on a local topic but as it is a National Day, announced it here .

Nai Amphur Non Wau Sor declaring the opening today .

merchant seaman wrote:Thought maybe this was to get rid of all the crooked polititions

Some of the children I worked with did come up with that idea as well , but couldn't decide where to start .

Yeah, we have a clean up Australia day and it works well. Wouldn't do any harm here.

trubrit wrote:Monday the 26th June

Next Monday is the 27th of June. As the banner pictured does not mention which day, only the date... it must mean Sunday 26th June.

Stevo wrote:

trubrit wrote:Monday the 26th June

Next Monday is the 27th of June. As the banner pictured does not mention which day, only the date... it must mean Sunday 26th June.

I stand corrected Sunday 26th June it is .

from what i can read from the poster this is to be an annual event started by the king to try and stop the use of drugs.

stargate wrote:from what i can read from the poster this is to be an annual event started by the king to try and stop the use of drugs.

Perfectly correct. The King has designated this day to be held every year. I don't know if locally we can do the same thing though . No doubt we will come up with something .

TB

an excellent project, that actually works, good picts at the end of the day , do make some people change their littering habits.

To save reinventing the wheel, and as an OP has stated, the Australian Campaign has been a huge success.

http://www.cleanup.org.au/au/ -

The biggest challenge for Thailand, is the use of plastic bags and getting people to use their own shopping bags.

I use them at Tesco, Big C etc, they even tried to scan my bag , thinking I was buying it !

The recycling of PET Bottles, cans, cardboard etc, is done by persons regularly, unfortunately this service means that a stupid mentality or littering to occur, knowing someone else will pick it up later.

If every small village , town and city got together , it can make a change !

Unfortunately, one day of merit doesn't form a habit. The following day the population will be back to sweeping all the garbage from their own yard into the street in front of their house. For some strange reason Thais don't see cleanup of streets and other public areas as their responsibility. If every family would just police the area in front of their own homes to the center of the street and the BIB would get off their lazy butts and patrol the highways and villages and ticket litterbugs and those that dump in vacant lots, the country could be cleaned up overnight. As long as there's no enforcement of littering laws, and the BIB stay focused on setting up their traps around town to extort money from motorbike riders with no helmet, Thailand is going to remain a filthy place. And whose that idiot that invented those round rubber 8 gallon trash containers built from old tires? Talk about monopolizing the market! Can't somebody come up with a better idea and a larger container that will actually "contain" the garbage until the next time the garbage truck comes around? The "garbage runneth over" is all I see when I drive through any village or walk down any sidewalk in a commercial area. Enough said!

semperfiguy wrote: As long as there's no enforcement of littering laws, and the BIB stay focused on setting up their traps around town to extort money from motorbike riders with no helmet, Thailand is going to remain a filthy place.

If I have a problem that I will admit to its cleanliness... I am always cleaning up... and believe it or not I actually enjoy it..! I was looking forward to “clean-up Thailand day immensely”... in fact I set my alarm clock for 4am yesterday to get a really good start.... sad isn’t it...?

semperfiguy... The boys in Brown do enforce a litter law... especially in Bangkok... They are consistently on the lookout for litter louts... there have been many a story about people being fined for discarding cigarette buts or confectionary wrappers in the capital... some guilty some not…! But that’s another story...


Mr. Saboo

jackspratt wrote:Some see the tyre rubbish bins as an idiotic invention - I see them as an ingenious way of re-cycling used tyres, and thereby keeping them from littering the sidewalks.

The main problem is the bl00dy soi dogs who get into them and scatter the rubbish - far better to do away with the dogs than the bins.

We were issued with the new style plastic wheelie bins more than two years ago, completely free . All you had to do was go to Tessa Bahn and sign for it. They now charge a waste disposal fee of 20bht a month for yellow ones , domestic use, and 50 bht for green ones, commercial . They are emptied twice a week and actually washed by the dustmen about every 3 months .

Outside my house . As you can see , clean and tidy .