Bangkok Street-Food Stalls Are Trying to Give Up Plastic Bags
By Randy Thanthong-Knight
January 23, 2020, 5:00 AM GMT+7
sixth-worst maritime polluter. The country generates more than 5,000 metric tons of plastic trash a day, three-quarters of which ends up in landfills. So the Thai government decided to clamp down, promising to eliminate all single-use plastic bags by 2021, ban plastic straws by 2022 and recycle all its remaining plastic packaging by 2027.
Plastic waste washed up on Bangsaen beach in Chon Buri, Thailand. Photographer: Nicolas Axelrod/Bloomberg
Big retailers like Varawut Silpa-archadied, they found pieces of plastic waste blocking her intestines. Public concern increased with the discoveryWeerachat Kittirattanapaiboon, chief executive officer of Bangkok-based Biodegradable Packaging for Environment Co.Navarat PhinyoVatistam Pruangviriyahttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...d=premium-asia
By Randy Thanthong-Knight
January 23, 2020, 5:00 AM GMT+7
sixth-worst maritime polluter. The country generates more than 5,000 metric tons of plastic trash a day, three-quarters of which ends up in landfills. So the Thai government decided to clamp down, promising to eliminate all single-use plastic bags by 2021, ban plastic straws by 2022 and recycle all its remaining plastic packaging by 2027.
Plastic waste washed up on Bangsaen beach in Chon Buri, Thailand. Photographer: Nicolas Axelrod/Bloomberg
Big retailers like Varawut Silpa-archadied, they found pieces of plastic waste blocking her intestines. Public concern increased with the discoveryWeerachat Kittirattanapaiboon, chief executive officer of Bangkok-based Biodegradable Packaging for Environment Co.Navarat PhinyoVatistam Pruangviriyahttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...d=premium-asia
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