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Home » Reader question » Reader question: “Thai national park sends tourists its own mess”
Reader question: “Thai national park sends tourists its own mess”
Dear readers,
Visitors to Khao National Park last weekend could have a package of abandoned rubbish delivered to their homes and a fine for violating the National Park Act.
Names and addresses of visitors are registered with the park administration so that the polluters can be easily traced.
That information can be read at the app of the Dutch NOS news and they have the weather from The Thaiger.
What do we think of this?
In itself a nice and playful response from the Minister of the Environment, I can laugh about it. But how do you distinguish the polluters from the "clean" visitors based on a registration list, I wonder?
You must have been there, have taken your garbage neatly in your pocket and you will be fined because others have thrown away their empty snack bags in nature.
Regards,
Maryse
Two comments: first of all, I think this is a great initiative. More countries should do. Whether everyone who visited the intended Park will be sent home a bag of rubbish with a fine, I don't think. That will be if an address tape has been found in all the rubbish, or if people have been approached by a park ranger. But how the action is organized is not really that interesting either. What is the principle and the idea behind it: it is high time that we all keep nature free of rubbish. As reported earlier, my husband and I sometimes went to Seoul and Tokyo from Bangkok in pre-corona times. What we noticed was that after a picnic in a park, for example, people carried an old plastic bag with them, deposited all the rubbish they had made in it, and took it home in their empty picnic basket. It's just what you're used to.
Secondly, Thai people are known for being careless with their environment. It is absolutely not wrong that they are confronted with the facts, and learn more responsibility for the environment and living environment. After all, there will be generations after them.
I can assume that people don't take any chances and collect evidence. The services in NL do the same. But yes, you must have tipped too little (in their opinion) or a big waffle and they hate you! Then you have a problem…
But is the headline of the article appropriate here? Surely not only tourists will come to those parks? Also Thai, I assume? I think 'visitors' is a better word.
A tourist does not have to come from abroad. Domestic tourism also exists.
Shouldn't they only do this in national parks, but everywhere in Thailand, because there Thai people can really make a big step in properly cleaning up their waste.
A few years ago I was enjoying myself in a park.
A little further in front of me, 2 girls (16 – 20 yrs.) were talking and drinking.
Moments later, an empty Coke can and plastic bottle flew back over their shoulders.
I picked it up and returned it with the words: “I saw you lost something and
come and bring it back!”
Beautiful faces and reaction!
When they left the park was left clean!
The biggest rubbish that is thrown everywhere comes from the Thai.
Garbage bags are simply dumped on the side of the road.
It is likely that Thai tourists have also been busy here. There are virtually no foreign tourists.
Waste is a problem that most Thai people don't care about anyway.
Take a look at any market afterwards to see what's available.
But on the other hand, I am also amazed at what is thrown on the ground in an airplane.
As a flight attendant I have wondered about that for thirty years. Even took pictures of an extreme case….
What I understood from my (Thai) wife, the people involved had spent the night in the park and the rubbish had been found around and in their (rented) tent. The reservation was, of course, in name. That is why they could send the waste.
Hey rob h,
Thank you for your response, now we can better understand how they went about cleaning up the rubbish.
I would also have preferred that the word “tourists” be replaced by “domestic tourists” as I cannot imagine that there were dozens of “foreign tourists” in that park.
In general it is known that the Thai do not take mother nature very seriously.
Thailand is in the top 5 for the most consumption of plastic bags, etc
Regards,
This is not only a problem in Thailand.
Years ago I was with my, then still small, children in the Weerribben.
At the end of a wonderful day full of sailing, swimming and picnicking, I asked when returning the boat where I could leave my waste.
The ranger looked at me with his mouth open and said: Madam how wonderful every day we remove 3-4 boats full of waste from the water and from the fields. I think some education.
I learned it from my parents and my children are now teaching it to their children.