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Reader question: What do you do with chemical waste in Thailand?

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November 10 2015

Dear readers,

How do you deal with chemical waste in Thailand? I am thinking of paint and glue residues and used motor oil from the lawnmower.

I live near Ubon Ratchathani, but as far as my wife knows, there is no collection point here. Inquiries with the municipality were also of little value because they did not know.

I don't intend to just throw chemical waste into the household waste because I don't think I can make that.

How do you solve that?

Regards,

Wim

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19 responses to “Reader question: What do you do with chemical waste in Thailand?”

  1. Eric says up
    10 November 2015 at 10: 23

    If it yields 'something' such as paper and plastic, you will find a buyer. I take empty batteries back to Belgium. Fry with oil until black. But there is a fear that they will do with chemical waste and oils as we did fifty years ago. Yes……

  2. nico says up
    10 November 2015 at 10: 29

    I think they always dump it at the neighbors or on an “empty” field.
    A Thai never looks beyond his nose and certainly not in the future.

  3. He says up
    10 November 2015 at 10: 34

    Thais don't care about the pollution of their own country and I adapt to the customs of my host country. So just throw it in the trash.

  4. harm says up
    10 November 2015 at 10: 46

    The (Thai) neighbor uses that oil again and he calls it recycling
    I call it cheating because without that oil what he wants to get rid of doesn't work as well as with that oil (over it)

  5. rob says up
    10 November 2015 at 11: 23

    in principle, everything can end up in the rubbish dump. However, for plastic, paper and metals, traders and/or collectors also sort the garbage. There are addresses for oils and fats, ask at small restaurants or fried food sellers. However, what about fluorescent lamps etc, broken in the garbage cans. The government wants to get rid of plastic, so large supermarkets have plastic bagless days on the 15th and 30th of the month (and the other days?)

  6. nico says up
    10 November 2015 at 11: 30

    I know from someone who transports GP batteries (usually rechargeable batteries) for GP that GP collects them. GP has the batteries poured into special concrete twice a year. I don't know what's good about it either.
    It is true that on the grounds of the Tesabaan (town hall) in Nong Plalai there is a special wheelie bin for chemical waste. I bring my batteries here and hope they handle it well. It is therefore best to ask the tesa job (municipality) whether they collect batteries and other chemical waste.
    I have sometimes thought about encouraging the children at the school around the corner from me to collect batteries. If someone can give me assurance that they are processed properly somewhere, I will certainly do so.

  7. Chose says up
    10 November 2015 at 11: 32

    The only way is to save and ship to the Netherlands.
    There are no other solutions available here.
    I live further away in the isaan don't even have a garbage collection service.
    So everyone's fire goes into the garbage in the morning.
    Advice is so accept the rule as they are.

  8. nico says up
    10 November 2015 at 11: 41

    When we shop at Tesco Lotus I take my Ikea bag with me. My girlfriend has a Tesco card. Then you say at the checkout that you don't want plastic bags and she gets double points on her Tesco card. We always tell the cashier that we want green points, because many forget it. My girlfriend regularly receives coupons from Tesco for her accumulated points and we receive a 100 baht checkout discount or another discount. Tesco lotus is also trying to do something about it. The most important thing is that we save the environment.

  9. Peter's Jan says up
    10 November 2015 at 12: 07

    Now here in the municipality of Kabin buri they have found something else, dirty, run-down, smelly oil, mixed with another filth, is simply sprayed out on the dirt road streets (kind of bear cart), because this preserves the roads better, they say and also the rainwater does not penetrate so easily!
    And we in Europe just recycle and certainly don't spill a drop or you will get problems with the environment!!!

  10. Roy says up
    10 November 2015 at 12: 46

    I just asked my girlfriend. Her brother has a small auto shop serving a large barrel
    stands. All the old oil is poured into it and when the barrel is full it is sold to a recycling company.
    He gets 200 baht for a barrel of 2000 liters. Almost everyone in the village brings the old oil there.
    Batteries go with the old iron and that is also sold. Once a year, the village gets a free party from the proceeds. Everyone happy because another party added.
    I had also noticed that in almost every village there is someone who searches the rubbish bins
    to then take out cans, plastic bottles, and metals to sell, Thai recycling.

    So the best solution I think is take your oil and batteries to a garage nearby.

  11. frank brad says up
    10 November 2015 at 13: 41

    I went snorkeling at krabi and we swam through caves with flashlights on our heads.
    That was a nice day trip.
    After this day we sailed back and meanwhile all old batteries were replaced by new ones by our guide.
    It was about 100 batteries.
    And where were these old batteries dumped?
    Thrown overboard on the coral! ! !
    Thailand still has a lot to do in this area!
    If there had been a 1Baht deposit on it, he certainly wouldn't have thrown it overboard.

    • Tarud says up
      10 November 2015 at 14: 34

      Yes terrible right! But how can you positively influence it? I find Roy's story above very inspiring. Great if you can develop an initiative, positive and friendly, where there are only winners. I also notice in my own environment what positive energy can bring about. We regularly clean the street in front of our house and have placed flowers along the wall on the street. Now the entire street has flowers over a length of 400 meters and there is no waste anywhere.

  12. JanBeute says up
    10 November 2015 at 14: 58

    The answer for me is very simple to this question, at least in the area where I live.
    And that is Pasang , in Lamphun province .
    I collect all my used glass and plastic material, as well as scrap metal, and put them in large bags.
    If there is a decent amount then we sell it to someone who also earns bathjes with this.
    So recycling in Thai style .
    I see a few collection points in my area, where the whole is further transported in trucks.
    Since I change the oil of my motor bikes and pickup truck myself.
    I collect this and put the old waste oil back in the plastic 5 liter or 1 liter packaging.
    I take this to a motorcycle shop in my village , and he sells it again .
    Also for recycling.
    So there is definitely recycling in Thailand.
    Even for empty batteries and fluorescent lamps.
    The normal household waste is collected once a week and I cannot pass judgment on what happens to it afterwards.

    Jan Beute.

  13. Nico B says up
    10 November 2015 at 15: 17

    There is a waste collection point near us and there are several, where you can deliver plastic bottles, glass bottles, iron, old equipment, cardboard and they will pay you a small amount for that. The old equipment is expertly demolished.
    We put all those things separately and individually packed in our rubbish bin and the garbage collectors are happy with it, because they collect and sell it.
    Our family has a company that buys waste, e.g. waste oil, and resells it to a recycling company, companies with chemical waste are also disposed of their waste by them and that is transported with a pack of permits to a recycling company and there under precise rules processed responsibly, which also applies to fluorescent lamps. For example, plastic waste from making airplane seats and iron grindings and the oil used for that grinding work, etc. In short, you just call and it is all collected and processed by recycling companies, all under the watchful eye of the government. Sometimes up to 20 trucks drive back and forth per day just for this family business.
    Dumping the waste elsewhere leads to very high fines.
    So to now claim that nothing is being done about it in Thailand are cries from people who have no understanding of it at all. just don't know what really happened.
    That there are still places at a local level where things are less regulated, that there are people who simply dump the oil on an empty field, it all happens, but make no mistake, a lot of industrial and consumer waste is disposed of expertly and under great care. strict rules recycled.
    You can certainly influence it positively, collect your bottles, iron, cardboard, old equipment, etc. and deliver it to the right place, sometimes it takes some searching, but that helps a lot.
    Nico B

    • He says up
      11 November 2015 at 01: 18

      The Thai are generally not interested in keeping their country clean. You don't have to be an Einstein to say that, just keep your eyes peeled when you're on strast. The Thais do have income in bahtjes, so they collect everything that can be earned.
      I throw everything that can be earned over my fence to the neighbor. Empty cans, plastic bottles, boxes, old iron, etc. It collects fat and at a given moment it is sold.
      Not to keep Thailand clean but for the bahtjes.

  14. Fransamsterdam says up
    10 November 2015 at 18: 17

    When I see a garbage collection truck passing by in Pattaya, it is filled with plastic bags, in which the garbage collectors collect everything that can raise a few Baht separately. I admit, they don't have an oil barrel hanging, but there is still some separation of waste.

  15. Rob says up
    10 November 2015 at 18: 53

    The name 'Ground paint' says it all… Can't we do something about this? All technologies are available, now for the politics…
    Is this something I could dive into for business?
    Who knows how the hares run?

  16. William van Beveren says up
    11 November 2015 at 06: 15

    In my previous house (thank God I've been gone for a week now) I found more than 200 batteries on my neighbor's land, my other neighbor flicked all her kitchen waste from her kitchen upstairs just down, half on my land, we then had always rats. our land also bordered on the river, it was also very easy for them, everything was thrown into it. Now live among some more civilized people.

  17. Hans Pronk says up
    11 November 2015 at 07: 48

    The first gas station on the 23 seen from the Ubon Ratchathani ring road has a hazardous waste bin.


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