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	He said 885,995 of them were made of environmentally friendly degradable materials.</div>
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	Sukhumbhand said BMA officials started retrieving the floats at 8pm Thursday and finished the job at 4 am Friday.</div>
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BMA retrieves more than 982,000 krathong floats

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration on Friday retrieved 982,064 krathong floats from 29 Bangkok parks, the Chao Phraya River and canals in the capital, BMA Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra announced.

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