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Clean Streets for New Year’s
We love New Year resolutions, particularly when it’s the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration promising to clean up our streets by the end of 2011. The BMA normally collects 8,500 tons of garbage a day, but the floods have caused the amount of garbage produced to surge, and made collection more difficult. Kriengpol Padhanararth, a deputy director of the Department of Environment told the Bangkok Post that there was now two to three times more garbage in the streets due to damaged items getting thrown out, wood floating in and increased consumption of packaged food and water. Even as we go to print, the BMA says it’s only operating at 90% of its capacity because of areas that remain flooded. Despite that, they are collecting 11,300 tons of rubbish a day and plan to wrap up the cleanup by year-end.