Recycling in Hua Hin

[Uktom]

I searched the thread search dealio but came up with little according to my interest. Anyway, we use to have this couple who came on a bike and collected our bottles and cans etc. That has stopped for some reason for a few months. I was wondering where can I go to sell all of these cans and bottles we have collected for money. This couple use to buy them from us and then obviously sell them for more somewhere, does anybody know where this somewhere is?

[Terry]

My staff take all our recycle stuff to Soi 68 and sometimes come back with some decent pocket money

[hhfarang]

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.

[kendo]

My staff take all our recycle stuff to Soi 68 and sometimes come back with some decent pocket money

They do after i have been at the lodge doing 6 hours of hard core fishing and drinking.

Kendo.

[Terry]

......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

[Takiap]

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.

[Uktom]

To reply to your post hhfarang, I use to GIVE my recycled objects away to a couple who would come around our soi once in a while, an elderly Thai couple. But they have not come around in a few months and we have all of these objects mounting up, so I thought why not take it where the couple would have taken it themselves and sell it? Is there something wrong in having a little more money for giving away a lot of rubbish to be recycled rather than chucking it into a bin?

[Nereus]

To reply to your post hhfarang, I use to GIVE my recycled objects away to a couple who would come around our soi once in a while, an elderly Thai couple. But they have not come around in a few months and we have all of these objects mounting up, so I thought why not take it where the couple would have taken it themselves and sell it? Is there something wrong in having a little more money for giving away a lot of rubbish to be recycled rather than chucking it into a bin?

If you were to "chuck it" in the bin it would very soon get recycled anyway. So why not give it to someone trying to make enough money just to eat?

[hhfarang]

There's nothing wrong with selling it yourself.

As Nereus points out above though, people here make a meager living for their family by digging through rubbish bins. That's how we met our recyclers. Shortly after we moved into the house we noticed this couple coming by regularly digging through the bin, and rather than put them through that, my missus went out and talked to them and told them we would keep recyclables separate for them. Now she has their phone number and calls them for a pickup about every couple of weeks and we fill up their sidecar each time.

[dozer]

Food for thought Tom ?
Recycling, don’t knock it, there is a farang who has been here since the mid 80’s and he survives by being a recycling, all done with only a bicycle for transportation.

[Nereus]

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.

Watch it, I am from south of the equator!

Go and have a look at the new extension to the Klong Rd towards Palm Hills. There is a big section of new filling there that is at least 50% plastic bags. It probably started off with more, but some of it has blown away. And then after the new road is built and it starts to break up as soon as the rains come, it will be another mia pen rai.

[Uktom]

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.

[Hobiecat]

Soi 102 also has a recycling center. It's about 2.5 km's up. You can't miss it just look for the disaster on your left hand side.

[Uktom]

I will make a trip down to soi 68 and see what's going on down there if the couple does not come before May comes. The fact is that we have so much we cannot keep it lying around. It looks bad in huge black backs, and some of it is starting to smell, guessing that would be drops of beer left in bottles or something like that.

[Roel]

I don't want to know...........