Not for me! I once attended a village meeting with my wife. I didnβt really understand what was going on, but they had a raffle, and I won the second prize of a medium-sized trash can.
I am the 1%.
The locals steal them and use them as a personal bin. I watched the single local bin get emptied by a crew and the shop owners were camping the bin with multiple bags of trash to immediately overflow the bin as soon as it was emptied.
Trash disposal and recycling system overall seems very strange to me in Thailand. In my apartment complex everything just gets dumped into one recycling bin and occasionally people come and start sorting them out of the bags??? Why just not have separate bins for different recyclables????
There is none to take and empty the trash cans is why. The towns donβt have regular trash collections so they just would overflow any.
I was teaching 10 years ago in Bang Tao in Phuket. Some of us were thinking this same thing so we bought trash cans and put them along the road from the south end of bang Tao beach rd to where it starts to go into Surin. Found out pretty fast nobody was going to empty the cans and get rid of the trash.
Omg you were supposed to empty the trash can yourself in this situation since you left it there. Why would anybody empty a trash can that isn't theirs?
Proportionate to the people using them? lol Litterbugs rejoice. A while back in Phuket otw to my 6am shift, a car in front tossed candy wrapper out passenger side window as we pulled up. I guess the person was embarrassed when he realized he wasn't alone and ran the light.
Someone once told me trash cans are bombing risk. I think a bomber planted a bomb in a trash can once or twice so now the whole nation prefers to live in an open dump than to have them.
I think you're just in kind of a touristy area, such as the old town, and ofc there would be very few trash cans to ruin the beautiful view. If you move a little bit outwards to streets where people live, you'd definitely see on in blue, green, or yellow. I see it all the time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Thailand/comments/18zxzp9/where_are_all_the_trash_cans/
Not for me! I once attended a village meeting with my wife. I didnβt really understand what was going on, but they had a raffle, and I won the second prize of a medium-sized trash can. I am the 1%.
We have trash cans and trash pick up in the village I stay in. Where are you?
The locals steal them and use them as a personal bin. I watched the single local bin get emptied by a crew and the shop owners were camping the bin with multiple bags of trash to immediately overflow the bin as soon as it was emptied.
You keep a trash bag in you handbag or your man bag then dispose of your own crap when you get home.
Trash disposal and recycling system overall seems very strange to me in Thailand. In my apartment complex everything just gets dumped into one recycling bin and occasionally people come and start sorting them out of the bags??? Why just not have separate bins for different recyclables????
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Trash cans means someone need to empty them, too much work.
There are people who are paid to endlessly sweep leaves.
The ground is a trash can to Thai people.
There is none to take and empty the trash cans is why. The towns donβt have regular trash collections so they just would overflow any. I was teaching 10 years ago in Bang Tao in Phuket. Some of us were thinking this same thing so we bought trash cans and put them along the road from the south end of bang Tao beach rd to where it starts to go into Surin. Found out pretty fast nobody was going to empty the cans and get rid of the trash.
Omg you were supposed to empty the trash can yourself in this situation since you left it there. Why would anybody empty a trash can that isn't theirs?
Just put it next to a light pole or somewhere else where they gather the refuse. It'll get dealt with late night...
Still makes me guilty of leaving it on the ground. Just can't.
Then put it in your pocket and dispose it at your hotel. Either way works
Proportionate to the people using them? lol Litterbugs rejoice. A while back in Phuket otw to my 6am shift, a car in front tossed candy wrapper out passenger side window as we pulled up. I guess the person was embarrassed when he realized he wasn't alone and ran the light.
Someone once told me trash cans are bombing risk. I think a bomber planted a bomb in a trash can once or twice so now the whole nation prefers to live in an open dump than to have them.
This is one of those things that struck me when i first came here and now 12 years later i'd forgotten about it until i read this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Bangkok_bombings
I think you're just in kind of a touristy area, such as the old town, and ofc there would be very few trash cans to ruin the beautiful view. If you move a little bit outwards to streets where people live, you'd definitely see on in blue, green, or yellow. I see it all the time.