Public health and environment staff collect
stones and pick up garbage off the beaches. Department officials said
they will crack down on litterbugs polluting area beaches and will step
up shoreline cleaning.
Vittaya Yoondorn
The Pattaya Public Health and Environment Department said it will crack
down on litterbugs polluting area beaches and will step up shoreline
cleaning.
Sanitation worker Sunya Thupthimsri said city municipal officers have
been told to more strictly enforce a 1992 law forbidding littering,
spitting, extinguishing cigarettes, dropping chewed gum and other
litterbug offenses. Offenders can be fined up to 2,000 baht.
In addition, city workers will undertake comprehensive beach cleanings
monthly and routine scrubbings of Beach Road and Pattaya Beach from 5-7
a.m.
Sunya said the cleanliness directive was handed down due to complaints
about the dirty condition of area beaches and public events which leave
the shoreline in shambles.
