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The room is littered with garbage, as is the area outside the small house in Huai Thalaeng district of Nakhon Ratchasima province.

Bangkok will deploy another 1,000 biohazard garbage bins across the city after used masks and other medical waste generated by the third Covid-19 wave increased to 20 tonnes per day.

Heavy flooding has brought a new problem for Nakhon Si Thammarat residents to deal with – tonnes and tonnes of garbage.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has launched a campaign to reduce garbage after the capital produced 4,194 tonnes of waste between October 2019 and August this year.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) resolved on Thursday (August 6) to put off increasing the monthly garbage collection rate from Bt20 to Bt80. 

Former Democrat MP Watchara Petthong wrote to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday (August 4) demanding that action be taken to remove the 90 tonnes of garbage that sank along with the Raja 4 ferry boat on Saturday. 

The amount of garbage in Bangkok’s canals is increasing and is starting to block the sewer system causing floods in many areas, the city chief said.

Police in Lampang province have cracked down on trucks trying to smuggle in garbage and dump them illegally.

Bangkok is cracking down on illegal dumping of garbage transported from outside the city.

A garbage collector lost one leg and could lose the other after a speeding car crushed him against the back of his garbage truck on a Pattaya road early Thursday.

Local officials and volunteers joined forces on Wednesday to collect garbage from Na Tai Beach in Phang Nga province as well as from the sea.

Citi Thailand, citing His Majesty the King’s interest in the concept of sustainable development championed by his father King Rama IX, has noted that Thailand ranks fifth in the world among countries contributing to garbage in the seas.