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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Are the beaches in Thailand cleaner now?
Dear readers,
I wonder if the beaches in Thailand are a bit cleaner now that the country has had to deal with far fewer tourists. Have the Thai used the time to take care of their beaches (and other places of interest)?
I don't read anything about this anywhere and I can't find anything about it on YouTube either.
All the times I was in Thailand, and there will be many more, I noticed that there is a lot of garbage everywhere. They do not go beyond their own front door, even in the better hotels.
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Fred
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so, good job…
I was on the beach in Zoutelande on Wednesday and was annoyed by various waste, a lot of plastic but also broken pieces of fishing net.
where in the world is humanity doing better?
It has brought many benefits to Koh Samet, beautiful snow-white beaches, clean sea, also thanks to the Trash Hero's of Samet under the inspiring leadership of Lizzy Cameron-Johnston who are cleaning things up every day, so a lot of plastic litter has already disappeared.
https://www.facebook.com/trashherokohsamed/
If you come by, don't forget to get a nice drink in the Old-Amsterdam bar.
I am currently traveling around Thailand and now had a conversation with my wife on Koh Chang yesterday that, given that there are few or no tourists now, the population could clean up the mess if only for their own house or plot. They just don't see it and therefore won't start it.
Here where I live and go to the beach regularly, the beach is usually very tidy. Here, Thung Wualean Beach, where mostly Thai people come, the beach is cleaned every day. Every restaurateur cleans the beach behind his business. This beach is very busy during the weekends by Thai people who come to picnic and yes, they do leave a lot of rubbish behind. But isn't that also the case in Belgium and the Netherlands? Have you ever seen a festival meadow after a festival? There, after the festival, tons of rubbish is cleared away. So I don't see that big of a difference.
The beaches around Krabi are clean and empty is my experience this week.
Make no mistake. I myself have been involved in many cleanups. And I estimate that at least 90 percent of all garbage on the beach has washed up there. A very small part has been left behind by tourists.
So without tourists there is still the relentless stream of litter that continues to wash ashore.
99 percent of waste comes from the sea, we know the reason all too well, this is not good, we know this all too well
How so? Do the Thais now have more time to clean up the mess on the beaches?
They are not slaves!!!
I live in Jomtien Patthaya and visit the beach very regularly. And indeed the beach is cleaner, but not because Thais now have more time to keep the beach clean: they always did: every morning and every evening all pavilion owners clean their area. Clean up all left behind junk, level, rake, etc.
It is now only cleaner because there are no tourists who leave their filthy rubbish behind or throw it into the sea from their speedboat or even from the ferry. And all the garbage that was dumped into the sea from Koh Larn Island is not there now.
So yes it is cleaner but only because there are few or no tourists!
See the other comment about Zoutelande, or after a bad day walk on the beach of Zantvoort, Noorfwijk or Scheveningen: then you will find the same mess that tourists leave behind!
This is not a Thai problem but a worldwide problem of antisocial types!
Thanks for all the responses to my question. What surprises me is that many people feel attacked by my question. I also know that things aren't much better elsewhere.
But it is to the credit of the responders that they show their love for Thailand.