kendo wrote:......They do after i have been at the lodge doing 6 hours of hard core fishing and drinking.
Kendo.
So it's YOUR fault eh?
I must say that when you see a couple of weeks worth of glass & plastic bottles + the cans, it is quite surprising the sheer volume of the stuff
Beer and fishing go hand in hand, and your ice cold beer slips down the old throat an absolute treat after catching the first fish of the day in March i was a big contributor to your recycling pile in two trips myself and stepson the wife and her friend that never stopped eating, got through around 30 bottles of beer large and small.
I always leave feeling a little bit Oliver Twist
Kendo.
Is Bangkok a place or a nasty injury.......Eric Morcombe.
The local Municipality/government claims to recycle everything in the bins you see on the street. Before 2 months ago most of the garbage was incinerated and now it still is to a certain extent, BUT the government is improving and toughening laws on burning of plastic and pollution.
I cannot make any assumptions, maybe those of you who are desiring to sell your recyclables are possibly not greedy self absorbed parasites and maybe your using that money to help preserve the environment in Thailand through another outlet? I certainly hope COMPASSION is the number one goal of your daily deeds here in Hua Hin..
This couple use to buy them from us and then obviously sell them for more somewhere, does anybody know where this somewhere is?
We give, not sell, all our recycling to a deserving couple who come whenever we need them to and we usually fill up their motorcycle sidecar. Why would you want to sell your recycling when it's a good thing for the people picking it up plus the environment. I'm near broke but I would never resort to that level of desperation.
Whether you give it away or whether you sell it is one in the same thing as far as the environment is concerned.
Selling it yourself has nothing to do with "desperation." I know of a few expats who do this, and they are a trillion miles away from even knowing what "desperation" means, and no, they don't come from south of the equator either.
I am inclined to agree, although I would not sell recycling myself. When I lived in Australia some years ago, the children used to collect cans up and sell them to a recycling chap in the Paciific Fair carpark in Broadbeach QLD. I see no difference in what they did or to what UKTom wants to do. It is his to sell. I think the Thai's should be encouraged more to recycle as there is an awful lot of fly tipping in Thailand
I always give my Bottles back to the little shop at the end of the road, a few on our Soi just hang a plastic bag full on the gate before bed and they are collected first come first serve.
Uktom wrote:There is actually a farang in Hua Hin who goes around making a living from recycling? I use to know of an elderly woman I use to see around soi 55 on a bicycle, but she was Thai.
If it's the guy I think it is he doesn't - or didn't - make a 'living' by re-cycling. Maybe just a bit of pocket money. Unless his Thai wife no longer bakes cakes and sells to farang that is. She used to make the best apple pies in HH IMO.
As far as re-cycling goes I reckon Thailand is pretty much ahead of the game, and without the need for government intervention. With the exception of plastic bags a hell of a lot of plastics, cans, textiles and paper is collected, whether by the garbage trucks or just people who need the money to live. Just be careful how you leave things out for collection - don't crush cans or plastic bottles. Leave newspapers seperate to other stuff, and put old clothing and shoes on top of the bins.
The thai mother in law collects and washes ours
and keeps it in them big rice bags......
Shes keeps it all inside one of the empty houses around here : )
Every couple months i drive the truck (full thai style ! ) to the local recycle place...
she gets a fair bit and gives it to the kids to buy....
Sweets and DVDS !!!
: )
The only Geordie in sleepy Cha am since 2009 :cheers:
margaretcarnes wrote:Just be careful how you leave things out for collection - don't crush cans or plastic bottles.
Do NOT crush cans and plastic bottles?
No Roel - they often make things from cans which couldn't be done if they were crushed. Same with re-using plastic bottles. One of the neatest uses of bottles I've seen is for suspending above potted orchids. Thin tube runnig from the bottle neck into the pot - drip feed irrigation!
margaretcarnes wrote:they often make things from cans which couldn't be done if they were crushed
Aha, I see. But I think the percentage of what is collected and re-used in that way is very small. The garbage collector in our neighbourhood is a crush expert. In one smooth motion he removes the last drop of liquid and crushes cans and bottles into half millimeter thick flat objects. Then he sells them to a company that presses the crushed cans into blocks like these:
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We are all living in 'the good old days' of the future.
in March i was a big contributor to your recycling pile in two trips myself and stepson the wife and her friend that never stopped eating, 
