Thailand's Trash, How do we solve it?by Rock Lee | 02-12-2017 23:34 |
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    Thailand is renowned for their tourists world-wide. Thailand?s streets sell variety of foods such as drinks, rice, noodle, snacks, all you can imagine. Also, they have all kinds of shop, exotic cultures. Everyone who has been to Thailand will have been impressed by their culture and food. But, these culture lead to problems. Street foods, coffees, meals, juice etc are all given to customers by plastic bags, plates along with spoons, forks that are disposable. After eating it, people just throw it away on the streets or put it on benches. If you go to a local Thai street food markets, you might imagine delicious food and drinks but there are loads of trash bins full of food waste, trash with flies and birds around it. Also, you can see trash on grass, roads, sewers, anywhere you could think. People in Bangkok generate 1.2 kg of trash everyday and everyday people in Bangkok use 8.1 million plastic bags. How could this not affect the environment? Plastic bags poison the environment with their toxic chemicals and break into soil. Birds and animals that eat plastic with curiosity mostly get poisoned, when they digest the plastic particles,those particles block the gut and harm or even kill the organism. As this problem affects Thailand badly, people are realizing they should do something to solve out this problem. Seven-Eleven, a main convenience store in Thailand have been encouraging Thai people since 2013 to realize the importance of reducing global warming. They are working out with a project called ?7 Go Green?. Also, they are progressing a campaign to donate plastic bags to offices and 405,000 donations were made in 2013. Also, Starbucks, a huge coffee company has been working out for global warming. Their tables in the shop are not any tables. 21% of these tables are coffee grounds. Also, to encourage people to use reusable cups such as tumblers, they offer a 10-baht discount. They are installing low-flow faucets, toilets and spray heads. If you go to their website, you can see what they have done for the environment and what their future goals are. Thailand has been polluting the environments all around them by trash especially plastic bags, spoons, forks, bottles, and food waste. I think it?s time we all realize and change Thailand into a eco-country. |
