Why Is Thailand The World’s Dumping Ground For Plastic And Waste? | Insight | Full Episode
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Thailand receives over half a million tonnes of imported waste each year, even as its own waterways are clogged with garbage.
The foreign waste is meant to feed Thailand’s plastic recycling industry, but loopholes, false declarations and incorrect handling mean that some of this waste gets illegally dumped instead.
Meanwhile, Thailand itself generates enough plastic waste to keep the recycling plants going, but contamination and improper disposal mean that the material does not make it to the recyclers.
On top of this, the pandemic has added to Thailand’s trash troubles, in the form of disposable food containers and medical waste.
The government has unveiled a roadmap to rid itself of plastic waste by 2030, including a complete ban on imported plastics by 2025. So, how did Thailand become the world’s dumping ground and what can be done?
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I live in Thailand. Very little education or care of plastic use. I buy a ice milk tea every day. I bring my own bottle for refill. I see very few doing the same. Each ice milk tea comes with plastic cup / plastic lid / plastic straw and a small plastic carry bag. 7-11 and other stores banned plastic bags - that lasted about 6 weeks. Needs a huge mindset shift here (but then Philippines / Indonesia / Laos / Cambodia /from my travel experiences are worse than here).
Former president Duterte berated Canada for exporting its waste (including used diapers) to the Philippines. Canada had no choice but to take them back. Leaders of SE Asia should do the same.
Yes I agree they don’t care one bit , I buy a coconut 🥥 and I tell him I don’t want a straw I’ll just drink it from coconut and he’s like😮 huh?
@@SpencerjonesBoxingthey don’t think much about it. It’s terrible.
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The best way to take care of plastic waste is to let manufacturer to be responsible of its waste and have a way to enforce them.
That makes 0 sense. How can the manufacturer be responsible for what the customer does with the waste from their product ????????????
@@lukeheych8708 It's called responsible manufacturing, it only seems insane because we have been indoctrinated for decades that waste is customer's responsibility. And let's not kid ourselves, the costs of managing their waste will still be passed down to customers, but this will encourage them to produce goods with waste in mind, which would penalised irresponsible manufacturing such as single-use products, and/or planned obsolecense.
tax them , make plastic expensive.
That’s a great comment @SmileZero they produce it they own the responsibility of how it affects the earth. After all they profit off it then hold no other responsibility. Their ads back in the day saying plastics are the future and now that future is literally destroying this earth. Go after the businesses that profit off this and implement an order to correct it and require them to see and care for their product throughout it’s life. Profits off destruction of the earth is sickening. Earth gives us life and one day Mother Earth will cease that life too.
@@noeminoemi1350 yes! 👏
Hats off to this Buddhist temple. We need more such temples throughout the world to take such initiatives to solve plastic problem.
If more groups did this the whole world 🌎 would be much nicer
It seems that CNA has a particular interest in Thailand
CNA Has Interest In All Country In This Region And Always Publish Bad News About Other Country In This Region
SG is the best example of "RULE FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME".. Destroy others but me..
Because Thailand is a third world country. This is CNA's social responsibility.
It's the proper disposal that matters for plastic..while reducing waste is still an issue.. make less.. buy less.
Rather: buy less, make less. It’s the other way around. If everyone stopped buying cold drinks over night, these companies would close down almost immediately
Proper disposal? You do realise most landfills are just massive holes that they bury all the waste in? Plastic doesn't decompose for millions of years
@@trumpthelegend6357 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽 For your dumbass moniker
This was eye opening. New Subscriber.
Packaging creates the most waste.
Online retailing requires more packaging.
Exactly! You order online and get a tree’s worth of boxes delivered. Inside is those air plastic bags to prevent damage during transit. Then you actually get to the product. Yay? No. Because now you’ve gotta grab scissors to get into the object itself.
Thank you for this overview!
Since the introduction of a deposit system on plastic bottles they are disappeared from the streets.
Why is Thailand the world's dumping ground?
Answer: the world is smart, instead of dumping their waste in their own home, dump it in Thailand. They have good govts, they hv strict environmental control, they take care of their own people, they ensure their own citizens live in a clean environment, they don't dirty their own homes.
earth is their home too so by sending their trash to other countries, it's just like sweeping dirt under the carpet , in the long run everyone will be affected.
Pushing the plastic waste problem on the consumer might not be the solution , The problem should be re directed back to the producer of plastic to solve the waste problem , to facilitate ways to recycle or even other materials for packages which are more environmentally friendly, if they are not able to do so then governments are to ban plastic.
I am currently in Thailand the garbage problem here is mainly due to laziness and selfishness also I don't know of ANY recycling centres near me!
The video shows that in rural areas, there's poor waste management and no sewage system. That adds to the problem.
Moreover the food packaging can be done by using natural plant materials 100 percent say banana leaves, sugarcane peels, jute peels....completely replacing plastics. Added advantage being not only eco friendly but also the food remains healthy and organic. This brings sustainability to our planet.
Then banana tree is damage,another problen
One big part of it is all the bottled water... Even the merit for the temple (that no one drinks) is plastic bottles. Even if they had the big water cooler reusable 18l that would be better they have them there but it isn't high quality water most people don't drink it and the water companies make more money off of individual bottles.
It’s sad that we Americans past our problems onto another Country. Also there’s so much corruption going on it’s hard to solve the problem. When money is involved greed takes over.
SAD SAD SAD!!!
CNA Why Not Make A Video About Singaporean Behaviour Outside Singapore When Visiting Neighbouring Country Thief Malaysia Subsidize Petrol, Food
Don't accept waste and see how countries react.
China stopped taking trash for recycling. They sent to Malaysia. Malaysia followed China's example pretty quick. Just say no.
Waiting till 2025 is pretty silly.
Fascinated that Thailand has a Zero plastic waste roadmap while Singapore aren't doing anything, so as not to offend the O&G industry.
So for a country that depends on plastic bags to serve street food, what would they replace it with?
Cardboard cups
In my country "green" bags are made from
potato starch. Unfortunately, we do not yet have a substitute for all types of plastics, companies using plastics are not motivated to abandon cheap packaging for more expensive solutions. Without political constraint, companies keep the cheapest: traditional plastic.
We also have "green plastics" made from algae, these products are still not widely marketed... surely a cost problem.
@@rossco5409 cardboard cups? What kind of advice is that? So, decimate trees for cardboard cups instead of manufacturing plastic? 👏
I bought socks made from bamboo in Bangkok recently, if they can make socks why can’t compostable disposable containers be produced the same?
we all know where and how this has to end. We have to ban plastic.
This video is very educational totally amazing
I was just in Bangkok. The Chao Phraya River in Bangkok is an estuary, subject to tides. I was on a river taxi during a strong incoming tide and the amount of debris in the tidal flow was ridiculous. I have never seen it that bad.
Just visit the country and see how the locals treat the countryside as a dumping ground what cant be burnt gets dumped their is no recycling infrastructure, just visit koh samui and see the mountain of waste that was paid to be removed 10 years ago yet still sits their today this is a Bhuddisht country also waht are they the teachings of Bhudda, Thais should feel huge shame in how they are destroying their country.
Each Thai 8 plastic bags per day ..... this is 240 BILLION every year .... oh my Buddha !!!
Very sad as a resident 😢
Even in my country the Philippines plastic trash is the problem... I government needs to come up with solution..this is a environmental catastrophe
lack of resources or political will to invest in needed infrustructures to process plastics. The convenience now ( single use plastic products) can become the inconveniences to everyone of us in the very near future
Well one thing they've got to fix is how the recycling places operate! They are too picky as to what type of plastics to accept and there lays the problem! All plastics should be recyclable!
Daily consumed milk can be distributed by exclusive milk shops in refrigerators and consumers must be asked to bring steel cans from their houses. Each street can have two small milk shops on its both ends of the road so that residents can walk their way to milk shop or the milk shop person himself gives home delivery to that concerned street only. The services such as selling vegetables, fruits and also provisions can be done by street vendors organisation or a street vendors corporates so that carrying provisions in plastic bags is almost completely avoided at the same time saving purchasing, shopping time for the residents and also saving money on petrol plus reduced inflation due to reduced petrol demand for comsumption to travel by say some 100 residents × one litre per resident in one street.
So one street= 100 ltr petrol saved.
One ward say 100 streets means 10,000 ltrs petrol saved PER DAY PER ward.
If city has say 100 wards in one division, then 10,00,000 ie 10 lakh ltrs petrol per day is saved in one division.
If city has 10 divisions such as North bangalore, south bangalore..... then petrol saved per day in one city = 100 LAKH liters PER DAY..
If India has say 10 major cities like this, then PETROL SAVED PER DAY IN INDIA alone will be 1000 lakh litres.
The world has say 100 such countries like India, then petrol saved by the world in one day alone will be 1,00,000 × 1,00,000 ie 1× 10to the power of 10 ONE LAKH, LAKH litres!!!!!!
This is apart from reducing many, many, many tonnes of plastic waste per day say almost 20 to 30 percent by doing this simple life style correction adoption by everyone.!!!!!!
Your statement is an old idea that has been tried before and does not work. You have health concerns with dirty containers, you will have a population with a higher sickness rates. Plastic bad because it does not decompose, so switch back to glass or cardboard. Its that simple. Bringing your own jug is a ridiculous idea and there was a reason why it was phased out of the West when supermarkets came into being. Its called hygiene !
I think there is not too much milk consumption in Thailand...
Wow 550 tones each year to Thailand
Bangkok produce 100 tonnes per day! The scale is hard to grasp.
@@aksbeixhev Do you have a source for your stated number of 100t / week?
@@aksbeixhev Typical lying wstrnr
For one you can’t drink the tap water in Thailand so everyone uses plastic all day long, ever single little thing is served in little plastic bags and I say people just throwing the bags on the ground when they are done. 1. fix the drinking water problem, and then build a trash burning plant to create electricity. Landfills don‘t work.
The only way to control is to impose tariffs
I lived Thailand 6 months and I’ve had to buy water in a bottle every day so hundreds in total and when put in the bin people collect them out and seems like they sell them to recycle idk 🤷♀️ thy have poor recycling also buying street food annoys me so much because they put the smalles thing in like 3 plastic bags which I don’t even want , I just say plz nooo 🙈 I’ll eat it now I do t want a bag ffs 🤦♀️
Any plastic waste must be segregated as well as recycled at the place of its origin ONLY.
Why should America send this to third world countries when it is having vast stretches of its desert lands to set up plastic recycling industry in USA itself. The same goes with UK .but UK is small in size, hence it can look to it's immediate neighbour france or spain that are bigger in size than UK. This will not only reduce unnecessary petrol consumption of transportation but also is a source to reclaiming used resources.. This is as good as saying that I shall keep my house(country) clean and throw the dirt(plastic waste) outside ( other countries in other continents).
There is a way to make plastic back into petroleum fuel. There are businesses that do this and vehicles can operate on this fuel.
Thank you I know what I must do
Thailand should follow Australia and European countries bottle refund scheme to tackle plastic waste problem .
This can only be certain plastic, other "soft" plastics need different recycling
Deposit schemes are good for high value plastics, bottles, and some packaging, but there are thousands of products that don't get recycled by these programs.
We've had it in my country since I was born in the early 80s. It's costly to transition, lots of equipment needs to be replaced, but it's worth it. I believe we recycle close to 96% of all bottles. It's a no brainer.
they already have refund scheme on water bottles
@Frank Wu -- To follow Australia, European countries, and I assume also Japan? Do you mean for Thailand to export plastic wastes to more poor countries?
'Thailand has a plastic problem' you can say that for every country on earth
Living here in Thailand for more than 3 years now and counting... and plastic consumption here is absolutely insane! Sooo hard to be believe but it's everywhere.
@@LigawingPinoy at this rate we all are set to doom.
for Sweden is not an issue, we burn all waste for heating, not just tip it into the ocean, but, we need a lot of heat, cold country.. -16deg now.. brrr
There's this thing called PYROLYSIS and every city in the world needs a tire/plastic pyrolysis facility... Recycling is a big fat lie!!!
calling ALL thai celebrities! This is where we need you guys, lalalisa, yaya, nadech, mario?!? we love and look up to you guys! #4da💚of🇹🇭
Celebrities only endorse the big brands that is where the money is, the only people I have seen promoting recycling and packaging waste were school children about 4 years ago in Issan.
One man's junk is another man's treasure
You wanna check my junk for treasures?
Litter bugs don't learn until punished. Singapore puts out public whipping on litterbugs.
Did You Think Singaporean So Innocent ?
They Only Behave When They Inside Singapore Outside Singapore Different Story
Thai people use a lot of plastic in their food packaging.
Where and when the greedy and the poor meet, there are always troubles.
Solution ingredients:
1. Introduce law for plastic packaging to be priced at £/$/€ 1 per GRAMM
Yes, just the one ingredient.
Expected results:
- Consumers will keep plastics to reuse. We never thow away valuables
- Companies and corporations will introduce food/drinks dispensers to maximise profits as always
- The wealthy few to afford £/$/€10 per GRAMM, will pay for cleaning up
Example:
2 litres of coca-cola = £/$/€ 3
1 platic bottle (bottle+cap+labels) weighing 38 gramms = £/$/€ 38
3+38= £/$/€ 41
I can afford to buy a bottle of coca-cola for £/$/€ 41. And i will keep that bottle safe for years. You can bank on it
the ppl of Thialand need to take care of there country ...they need to hit there leader to get funds....then get huge nets & as many ppl that have boats....net up all the floating plastic....keep it up till that 90 tons of plastic weight is reduced to one ton.....& take em to the local dump sites...be proud & do right by yalls country & ppl....respect the planet...cuz we all have to live n it...& we all need to do the same...pladtic is problomatic...we need to find better ways of dealing w/it so as not to pollute our planet & hurt the dolphins...
Send those plastic to Cambodia or Laos.
and thaen ? That is no solution you racist. Shame on you
Aja yes hence tax not found
The problem being that they do not have the technological IQ and thus not the technology to process the PET plastic back into high consumer turnover products such as plastic bottles and food containers. They can only make useless trinkets out of some of it, and they have nowhere near the high-tech capability to re-process PET bottles back into new PET bottles, which is what real recycling involves...
Plastic use in Thailand is ridiculous. They will give you a plastic bag to put a package of chewinggum in
Increased a little meaning lol
This is a problem in most parts of the World. New York City, Paris most large cities have this trash problem.
No it's not, they're sending the garbage here. France doesn't import other people's trash, no sane government does that. Even the Chinese stopped this industry
We’re all trashy AF!
The bar dose not have to or sell alcohol. And hitels are un otger districts safer for young famikies.
think Bangkok is bad,go to the provinces!
Because, of, Pattaya
Capitalism at its best. And if English is not the first language of those speaking then captions are needed. Can't understand RUclips captions
After Boyan Slat squares up their situation all Thai leaders should be forced to eat it. Sloppy.
Normal they pit everything in plastic even Mcronald cup are plastic they serve street food in plastic bags even mcdonalds cup hooder is a plastic bag 😂 i mean the list go on and on
Yes its out of control , they don't think about it one bit
good
Producers using less plastic only means less product the consumer gets per purchase therefore ultimately using more plastic its all smoking mirrors
The best solution to this problem is WASTE TO ENERGY PLANT, not landfills or composting. The Filtration rate in these plants is more than 99 percent.
Melt it down make bricks build homes
Remember when Greta would focus on this issue? I don’t !!! Should email her
Tell the King, I'm sure he will fix this problem. Ya, right
They should be buried in the deserts in safe geological zones.
Still no real credible solution.
should first look at problems in your country...don't criticize other countries.
Article like this is like a mirror showing the reflection. Instead of being pissed off, at least try to accept the truth and help solving the problems.
@@Milo-cf9vz Agreed, every country has waste problems. Some countries just hide it better than others. This is a global problem, and we are all connected in so many ways through import/export, global brands, tourism, manufacturing, etc.
@@terracyclefoundation2769 I'd believe you if SG/CNA produces a documentary detrimental to its own country.. Why the focus only in Thailand??
Wake up Phil's! Filipinos !
This isnt philippines.
@@jbsolife4858 I think his point is that the Philippines is next. The only reason why we were somehow able to escape this mess is because we became a business outsourcing hub rather than an industrial hub (thanks to our English literacy), so foreign investors are here to look for office spaces for their outsourcing operations rather than factories for manufacturing. Unfortunately our neighboring countries aren't fluent in English (except Singapore of course) so they don't have much to offer to foreign investors other than labor workforce to do manufacturing jobs, so these countries suffer from manufacturing waste. But as this documentary suggests, it is only a matter of time before the 1st world countries look for their next prey to dump their trashes to, and any developing country isn't safe so unless the Philippines, by some miracle, finds a way to get out of the 3rd world country status then we could very well be next.
@@bar_coin Philippines literally imports garbage, never heard of the issue between Trudeau and Duterte over the Canadian trash in the Philippines few years ago?
@@bar_coin Philippines is doing a horrible job of dealing with it's massive plastic problem. No proper garbage disposal system in place. 80% of plastics and water end up in rivers and ocean in the Philippines. Quite disgraceful. See the recent video on this channel about this huge problem.
@@bar_coinEnglish your face .my Philippines doing worse than Thailand .they are much cleaner than phil.you are bossfull your English can do nothing for English English .shame on you
where is that chick making banana crepes wearing short shirts😄
Is air con very more or less if the room been cooled have insulation..also fire doirs . See to the frint libe by capital. . Thrash is say now stopped? Is the woeker ppe aware. Change workers . The need to. Work by thoes in waiting for tourisrs needs to service alk these workers. Includubg bike taxs . Then the overrile imof sense is stopped.
If we could all eat over the sink like I do we wouldn't have this problem but I bet North Korea would take it.
พลาสติกใส่อาหาร บงบอกถึงธุรกิจอาหารของไทย มีการขับเคลื่อน เป็นอย่างดีเยี่ยม ต่างประเทศต่างชาติประเทศไม่ได้ขับเคลื่อนด้วยธุรกิจอาหารเหมือนไทยจึงไม่มีปัญหาขยะพาสติก อาหารไทยราคาถูก ต้นทุนถูก คนไทยในชาติ ไม่ต้องจ่ายแพงขึ้นเพราะราคาบรรจุพรรณ ทีมีราคาแพงกว่าอาหาร หรือประเทศไทยยังไม่รวยพอ หรือกระบวนการ ต้นทุน
ท่าทางจะไม่เข้าใจ ปัญหาในไทย ที่คนไทยสร้างเองตอนนี้คือการไม่แยกขยะ และทิ้งขยะมั่วไปหมด มันไม่ได้เกี่ยวอะไรกับธุรกิจอาหารเลย
They could burn it and make power from it ,it is possible
This is simple. Go back to the old ways of living. Reject the modern poisons
perhaps it is a cultural thingy , one can see especially in rural areas plastics dumped everywhere even with a large bin near LOL
the hypocrisy of recycling
Normal make the plastic ( money) same ass your bottles +carton +steel etc. etc. Why not on plastic bottles same money ask from the people that bey if they it not on the good plase bring there are always "plastic pikkers" EVERYTHING same wood +steel+glass 😉
ลูกบันหารกัวคนไม่รู้หรอคะว่าจบนอก สำเนียงจีบปากจีบคอ พูดธรรมดาก็ได้ป่ะ
I AM NOT A GARBAGE BIN.
#cocacolacompany shoulp pay the clearing
If you survive in Thailand, you will live in Africa or other planets in the universe well
If you buy a can of cola cola in Thailand they put it in a plastic bag.You go out of the shop take the cola and get rit of the plastic bag.STUPID!!!!
japan will etkaeh tukeils kshalidn so otu kroa will take north korea.
Pakistan miltry or isi mijhy lagta kafir hain angrezon k tukro pr palny waly yh tu dr abdul qadir khan k ni bany. Mr Raheel Shareef and Mr Rajab Tayab urdogan and Orthodox
It's made even worse by the Thai obsession with wearing a slave muzzle.
In sum corruption
The western Countries boycott south east Asia products due to their environmental pollution issue.
Didn't you pay attention what was said? The plastic garbage comes mostly from western countries.
First pollute Asia and then boycott? Crazy comment.
Thailand should follow Singapore as a "Fine Country". Problem is on the spot Corruption and enforcement.
Singapore just burns everything recyclable or not, this isn't circular. They are also running out of places to put the ash. More enforcement is good but you also need recycling infrastructure and collection networks, which are under developed in Thailand.
@@terracyclefoundation2769 Burning everything aint a solution
incinerate waste in coal fired plants with coal
CNA AGAIN? ??
i see my sandals there hehe lmao
Come and get them, we have thousands of pairs! :)
The real name for Thailand should be Sthailand.
Who cares it's another country
eheheh good luck...
Corruption in thai govt is the worst in the world!
western countries moment
It tgese pepple have to rest ckean regroup thoughts i hate ruvbush and dont let me adk ne to wirk there again . My turn the masdyers turn the wIters shop jeepers turn . That stops wSte .ccar sakes teams
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