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All 16 Thai League 1 football clubs have joined the battle to reduce Thailand’s daily mountain of electronic waste from broken computers, phones and other gadgets.

The Department of Health is joining up with other relevant agencies to find a way of tackling the growing mountains of infectious waste.

Thailand created 1 per cent less solid trash last year compared to 2020, while 87 per cent of its infectious waste was related to Covid-19.

The police caught a 40-year-old contractor called Weerachai (last name withheld) on Thursday in Bangkoks Phasi Charoen district for allegedly allowing trucks to illegally dump waste and building material in an upmarket housing project for a price.

Butwal Sub-metropolitan City, which is responsible for collecting and managing garbage from in and around the city, has been dumping its waste on the banks of Tinau River for years. This has caused massive pollution in the river area, adversely affecting the residents of nearby settlements.

Thamonwan Virodchaiyan, who ran a textile factory that produced PPE suits.

Thailand’s Covid-19 battle generated a whopping 178 tonnes of infectious waste per day in April, the government revealed on Thursday.

With most people working from home, plastic waste in Bangkok has risen by 60 per cent, while the food-delivery business has increased by 200 per cent nationwide, the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) reported recently.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has collected a total of 547.93 tonnes of infectious wastes from April 1 to May 5.

The Pollution Control Department has outlined steps for proper disposal of non-reusable sanitary face masks. The guidelines come in the wake of soaring domestic usage due to the new wave of Covid-19 in Thailand since December.

The Phu Kradueng National Park is inviting tourists to join locals in its garbage recovery programme.

Two-metre waves in the Gulf of Thailand have forced fishermen in Nakhon Si Thammarat province to evacuate the area while foreign waste is being swept ashore.