Thailand Is Tired of Recycling Your Trash 

Agree! count Vietnam in!

Don't forget Indonesia.

recyclers provide the service, the producers should pay. Typically the product producer has the highest profit and the least amount of responsibility. Think about beverages, the one making the bottle has very small margins per unit, it s the bottler (they put the product in and market it that have the highest profit from selling the product. They also have the most control over how it is marketed and distributed. They should be paying the recyclers to collect and recycle all the materials not just the valuable materials

*posted from an iphone... no irony was spared in this lack ov understanding*

@@nunyanunya4147 So what?

who cares when they just drop all waste in rivers in Africa or Indonesia or India

We are already burying most our plastic in America. Once China banned imports of it we started burning and burying it. Something like 90% of the recycling we put in our blue bins goes in a landfill. Recycling is the biggest lie of the century. The recycle symbol means nothing. There's no profit in recycling the stuff we put out so they put it in landfills. There's documentaries that explain American recycling in detail.

@@nunyanunya4147and?

Stop accepting abroad dump is quite a far goal. Considered, we resently got a big news about polices try to cover-up a illigal trash station, own by MP's pensioner, feeding on lobby trashing from Big shopping mall. And some could say. Another point is, why won't they just "Don't do", some can argue that while it is polluted, it is not as 'Black' as others. PS. on other hand, I heard there are foriegn company comes and to it 'the right way'which is wonderful. But I think that the proportion is still vast, maybe you could get rich from this

What usually happens is bad things are located in poor areas rather than anything getting fixed

This is true but a lot of people complain about not having plastic for instance plastic shopping bags, straws and many others, it is the most convenient option and not to mention the cheapest, if most companies shift away from plastic costs will rise and guess what people will complain about that too.

@@JonathanAlmgren Then let the people complain. I believe the environmemt is more important than people's convenience. Don't like paper straws? Then get used to it (why do adults even need a straw?). We're all bitching about the environment but we're not even prepared to give up a little comfort. And I'm not just talking about the people but also the government and mega corporations -- they all care more about money than the environmen.

I agree we need to change the way things are packed .

@@JonathanAlmgren and we call other mammals dumb animals

The problem isn’t the plastic itself but it’s the different types of plastics that have to be very well separated for ray recycling, that’s the issue.

Profits. Money. Capitalism.

As the popular saying goes, "Reduce, reuse, recycle" in that order.

The consumers aren't to blame here. How am I supposed to buy clean water without the plastic? It's nearly impossible to find in Thailand.

One single use water bottle...toys that don't last a week.... liquid soap in plastic bottle (as if solid bars were not lighter and cheaper). So much useless plastic items!!!

@@Rev8 get a water filter. Either one that fits onto the sink faucet or a Brita style filter pitcher that is a small water canister with a filter. In my area, the pitcher system costs 40$ to buy and 6$ for the filter (which you replace every 3 months). That's pretty cheap, much cheaper than bottled water everyday.

who cares when they just drop all waste in rivers in Africa or Indonesia or India

@RainmaN i think one country is pushing towards no plastic. But your right

Hey we used to get our pickles from barrels and our grains also scooped out of communal stores. Nobody died from that

@@RainmaN215 I thought the same about tobacco advertising etc but enough people just saying no changed that a lot

@@Ai-kichona Until recently they banned you from bringing your own plastic cup or bottle due to unfounded fear of Covid. Thais are among the most brainwashed in the world when it comes to Covid. In Cambodia, mask wearing is down to 5%, but in neighboring Thailand it's as high as 99% even outdoors in some areas. A totally indoctrinated society that has been absolutely destroyed by its dictatorial military regime. Even the prime minister is so afraid of Covid, he is rarely seen without a mask.

Yeah well its one of the hottest places in the world here

companies can lobby in private capitalist countries. in state capitalist countries like china, these businesses operate only under the guidelines of the CCP, and its not possible for rich people or powerful corporations to demand things from the government. theres a reason why oil producing countries have ultra rich areas and ultra poor areas.

Thailand has plenty of NGOs that are for importing waste because they are all backed by USA, NED National endowment for democracy and George Soros Open Society Foundation, these 2 US sponsors will use every penny they get to make Thailand and poor countries keep importing waste because the more polluted and poor they are kept, the better they can exploit them.

Because it's Thailand, a country who's main goal is "face" to make sure they please others and for whom money is the most important thing in the world. China can ban imports of waste, Thailand can't. It's a different mentality. Just like how Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese are able to remove their masks on their own accord, while Thais keep wearing them despite being allowed to take them off.

The irony is at 6:06 you see the plant name written in Chinese.

This doesn't even deal with .001 % of the problem, to fix recycling infrastructure, we need large scale profitable and effective solutions.

You actually believed that the company will have better infrastracture? at 10:00 what was written was a lie to make the complany reputation better

@@caseyschryber1255 Fake how?

South Asia should stop receiving trash… rich people in South Asia are allowing this to happen. It’s not a problem caused by USA UK Japan.

@@powerstroke6.7 those rich people who own companies also help with south asian economies tho so its kinda bad unless they turn trash to something valuable

@@samuraiboi2735 I hear ya, I’m just pointing out these”journalists” have an agenda. They blame everything on the “rich” countries but take no issue with the people buying that plastic trash.

@@powerstroke6.7 They're fraudulently labeling and exporting their trash as plastic scraps.

@@theotheleo6830 fool me once it’s on you, fool me twice it’s on me…. I’m not saying the sellers are angels by any means, but the story focuses on “rich” countries only and put zero responsibility on the buyers. You can’t tell me that all that waste was mislabeled..

Many pigeon families lose their lives because of the overpopulated human pest.

he is not that poor he can wear gold necklace and able to move to a new house in bankok which is the real estate not cheap

Japan is the biggest plastic exporter. It's just the media barely reported it.

Facts. At least in USA, I start to see many aluminum and cardboard water bottles. Japan puts everything into thick plastic bottles. Its wild. I just got back from Tokyo, couldn't believe it. They even put warm drinks in plastic!

We honestly only would ever succeed if we made people do things as they are told

what NO. GET IT OUT OF MY COUNTRY

depend how far back up the chain you are planning to go, you plan to go back all the way to oil producer that the plastic are made of?

@@Sanyu-Tumusiime Then stop using it lol.

YES! The only way this gets solved is if we force the producers to take responsibility for the problems they cause.

Why is it the producers rather than the consumers who should deal with the waste problem?

Costs.

You can thank currency differences making it cheaper to ship abroad than to do it at home.

@@arnowisp6244 You can blame the Thai businessmen who import this waste for profit.

My thought is these companies 'won' contracts for recycling plastic waste in rich countries. They supposed to recycle these waste in other countries where operating costs are cheaper but these recycling facilities do not exist in reality. Instead, they simply dump these wasted and earn the money.

It's a complex problem. Developed nations have high labour costs and stronger restrictions on how waste is managed. Lesser developed nations have lower standards and labour costs. At the end of the dayeach of us are responsible. It doesn't matter what we think or say, it's what we do that matters. Everytime we go shopping we vote with our dollars. When we buy single use products, we are we are sending a message to companies that this is okay. Maybe we put it in a recycling bin, and think it ends there. It doesn't, many countries that claim high sustainability rates are just sending it to less developed countries and there is little or no tracking once it leaves. It's not only plastics, its our clothes, our food, etc. For example, we can buy blueberries for a few dollars in the winter because of low wages in Mexico. Who is paying the real cost of growing and shipping all these various products around the world? Unfortunately it's often the poor and the environment

​@@nobodyspecial4702 it's actually the government. As for the business people profiting from the plants, well, look 6:06 you see the plant name written in Chinese. Basically the government is selling our country to Chinese business people and this is a repeated pattern in many industries here, not just recycling--farming, real estate, you name it.

Re. Marathon runners: The times I have run in organized marathons water has always been provided in paper cups, not plastic bottles.

Stop bailing out the boat and plug the leak. Lowered production less plastic made

How AI can help in this matter?

yes AI solves everything.. smart

@@Coop____ To track how much single-use plastic is used per person and regulate how much a person is able to waste in the future. AI can help us process collected data about how much we waste and give us options to reduce our waste.

@@tejasmane7672 It depends on what's feasible at the time. Right now there's already computer vision AI technologies that helps classify and sort recyclable waste from none recyclable ones. This allows for recyclable materials that are mixed in with non-recyclable ones to still be recyclable. Future AI applications could potentially include but not limited to AI that generates new methods of recycling, AI that helps find new materials that can more easily be recyclable, AI that could find the most ideal location for recycling that minimizes human contact, shipping distances, etc.

But you're not tired of walking into a 7-11 store every day to buy stuff wrapped in plastic, aren't you?

Your right, and the only way to do that is reduce population

@vsstdtbs3705 Consumption rate of US is astronomically high, even a nation with billion cannot meet their consumption

It is curious that such a move has not taken place.

It is easier to blame the evil west than their own government

They should change their zoning laws for one. Having residential homes next to factories is totally 3rd world. Factories should be located in industrial zones and homes in residential only areas.

As opposed to blaming the Thais for buying this plastic from the West. Now, that's some serious hypocrisy there.

Most common plastic is today is (C10H8O4)n and it's also the easiest to recycle and reuse. Kerosene is comprised of 10-16 carbon chains while gasoline is 8 carbon chain molecules. The second and third most common plastics are comprised of 2 and 3 carbon chain molecules, so to convert them into usable fuel would require more energy than you get back.

Money

And for idiots that like to believe they are saving the planet....this planet could get rid of us anytime it wants to.

Yes, for me it's obvious just by looking at the bin.

Yeah but I wouldn't trust the fluoridated and chlorinated tap water supply they provide in many parts of Australia, the United States and Canada. Even in those countries, I buy only bottled water and preferably water bottled in glass, since plastic bottles release tiny microplastics and endocrine inhibitors.