Editor;
(People are) escaping Bangkok floods only to find some of the beaches too dangerous to let young children play on.
This lovely mother Noo with her 8 month old beautiful daughter were staying in Jomtien to escape flooding waters in Bangkok where they live.
She saw the Pollution Solution Group removing dangers from the beach and told us how sad it is to see all of the littered toxic cigarette butts and bottle caps everywhere and could never allow her priceless baby to sit or play on the beach for fear that she could ingest one of these things the moment she took her eyes off of her, as many are buried in the sand out of sight.
Being a young mother, lovely Noo realizes that babies up to 2 years old will put whatever will fit into their little mouths. Cigarette butts are full of toxins and will not only choke and make ill, but also can kill a baby. Bottle caps also will choke a baby to death, not to mention what these 2 things do to our wildlife and waterways.
Noo asked us why! In Bangkok if you flick a toxic cigarette butt, you are fined 2,000 baht and here where it is even more dangerous, being close to the ocean, children and our sea food, the authorities just look on.
Many, not all, Thai and farangs need to understand that they are taking a chance on making ill, killing and contaminating, the voiceless by littering these things anywhere.
Thank You,
The Pollution Solution Group
Gerry Rasmus aka KOTO
