BMA defends purchase of 35,000 bins
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) yesterday insisted that the 35,000 rubbish bins it has purchased for Bt70 million were "good value for money" because each Bangkok resident disposed of approximately 1.2 kilograms of refuse per day.
BMA Environment Office chief Banjong Sukdee said that each day as much as 9,700 tonnes of household rubbish, 1.4 tonnes of hazardous waste and 24 tonnes of medical waste from hospitals accumulated in the capital.
He said the public needed to be made aware that only small items of garbage were to be disposed in the new 85-litre, white plastic bins, which have been placed along footpaths on primary and secondary roads.
These receptacles are different from the 240-litre rubbish bins in
three colours (green for household garbage, yellow for recyclable garbage and orange for hazardous waste), which are too big to be placed on footpaths, he said.
According to Banjong, the issue of excess garbage in communities had arisen because garbage trucks could only collect it every other day. The BMA had urged communities to establish garbage-disposal points, where the 240-litre bins would be placed, for better garbage management.
As for the 36,363 large 240-litre bins the BMA bought for Bt59 million in 2011, Banjong said many disappeared or were broken in the 2011 flood disaster.
