Garbage force gets a boost
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Another 150 workers will be hired to collect the mounting garbage in Bangkok's flooded areas from November 10 to December 31, Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said yesterday.
The Corrections Department would enlist some inmates to help with this work.
Rangsan Pinthong, director of the Pollution Control Department’s Waste and Hazardous Substance Management Bureau, said the city had asked his office for cooperation in managing garbage disposal during the floods, so both would set up a joint committee with other agencies to take on this task.
The department will test the quality of water quality in flooded areas that have the most garbage, and come up with information about trash management. TPI Polene had offered to burn the waste at its incinerators in Saraburi.
People should be urged to separate hazardous content such as batteries, electronic devices and chemicals, which make up 3 per cent of the city’s refuse, he added.
