Dept says pollution, rubbish woes worsen

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Dept says pollution, rubbish woes worsen

Published: 12 Jan 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The quality of water is deteriorating, the amount of accumulated garbage increasing and air pollution worsening, the Department of Pollution Control says.

Wichien: Few bright spots on horizon

Revealing its findings on pollution last year in its 2012 annual report, Wichien Jungrungruang, the department chief, said the number of places where the quality of seawater was excellent fell by almost half, from 36% in 2011 to 15% last year.

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phaethon
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Discussion 3 : 13 Jan 2013 at 10.473
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Also the Bangkok Post should do an article (entire series) on flytipping. The soi beneath my window used to be green and pleasant until the dirt road was replaced with concrete and the flytippers started to arrive. Now it is an almost continuous strip of garbage and dying trees. With the trash has come an increase in mosquitoes. But there is nowhere else for people to get rid of their waste, there is no-one to whom offenders can be reported, no enforcement and therefore no consequences for the flytippers. the only people who benefit are the collectors who rake through the trash for anything of value, but leave behind more than they take away.
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Discussion 2 : 13 Jan 2013 at 10.422
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As a photographer the first thing I do every morning is look out my window to asses the quality of the day's light and I have been thinking this dry season the visibility is far worse than in previous years. I have been putting it down to all those new cars, not just their engine emissions, but the dust they throw up from all the concrete roads.
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Discussion 1 : 12 Jan 2013 at 16.381
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Thailand simply needs better environmental education. People litter everywhere, adults and children a like. I've even seen people just drop trash on BTS platforms. Amazing how they find it so inconvenient to put trash in their pockets, or hold on to it. They simply have no shame. Better education please.
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