Warunya Thongrod
About 700 Pattaya-area residents were shown how a Bangkok
district has tackled its garbage and pollution problem and were encouraged
to do the same.
Consultant Pisai Na Ayuthaya
leads the seminar about the Bangkok Noi Office study.
Consultant Pisai Na Ayuthaya led the March 22 Pattaya
City Hall seminar with bureaucrats from the Public Parks and Sanitation
Office at the Bangkok Noi District Office illustrating waste management and
control policies used there.
The Bangkok Noi officials showed how district residents
had taken the responsibility for keeping their area, which includes the Chao
Phraya Canal, cleaner, reducing expenses for the district government. Locals
there aggressively separated trash for recycling and used wet garbage to
make organic fertilizer.
Bangkok Noi employee Nujree Cho-anchan said the district
sees the importance of educating residents to become self-dependent,
resulting in a cleaner community, lower sanitation expenses for government
and extra revenue for locals who make money from recycling.
