Editor;
Re: Please use environmentally friendly krathongs (PM Mailbag Friday, 17 October 2014) – Koto – Your letter urging everyone to avoid the use of Styrofoam krathongs is to be commended.
However, having worked on several ‘eco’ type ad campaigns in Sydney, I nearly always found the standards the green campaigners seek to impose on everyone else, rarely seem to apply to themselves.
Your “anti litter” campaign on Jomtien Beach involves stapling several hundred plastic, laminate posters on the trees. This is completely useless as no one appears to read them, and are you sure your “target audience” can, in fact, well, read?
Then what happens to the discarded posters? Twenty square metres of laminate, every year, end up in a land fill or even worse – the same storm drains you are trying to keep clear.
Is it not the case that far from being, KOTO, Keeper of the Ocean you are in fact helping to kill it?
Margaret Bushnall
