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> Thailand I disagree. Granted Thailand is big, and Bangkok itself is huge, so I've only seen small parts of a few cities in the country. But while I definit

by z9znz 4y ago

> Thailand I disagree. Granted Thailand is big, and Bangkok itself is huge, so I've only seen small parts of a few cities in the country. But while I definitely saw poverty and ramshackle structures, litter was relatively minor. In fact, I've seen worse litter in places in some regions of western Europe. I've definitely seen some bad litter in places in large US cities. I've never seen anything like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7O0jbTRD7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7O0jbTRD7Y edit - I challenged myself to try to find some really dirty parts of bangkok in street view. I didn't find a good example yet, but I had to laugh when while searching for an example of litter, I instead found a woman cleaning trash - https://www.google.com/maps/@13.7627877,100.4965608,3a,64.2y,4.15h,78.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sghva5h3jmx4OaaUEuvgeEA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@13.7627877,100.4965608,3a,64.2y...

bergenty 4y ago
Litter was a much, much bigger problem than it currently is in Indian cities. It’s on the right trajectory. I went to Thailand 8 years ago and there was tons of litter, maybe it was a quick turnaround. This is from a few years ago— https://youtu.be/hufC33MvmSw https://youtu.be/hufC33MvmSw
- z9znz 4y ago
  That video is of a rubbish dump, and it's talking about the amount of trash produced by Bangkok. And as Bangkok has about 10 million people, large amounts of trash are expected. With some quick searching, I found estimates that the US per capita generates between 2 and 7 kg of waste per day per person. Thailand's number is less than 2kg. I think the special challenge of a city like Bangkok is how rapidly it grew. But as evidenced by improvements in public transport over the last decade, I wouldn't be surprised if waste management had also improved. So perhaps it was much dirtier in the past. And let's not forget tourism. 22 million people visit Bangkok per year, compared to 14 million for NYC. That's a lot of extra garbage that probably is not counted in the per capita figured.
agileAlligator 4y ago
>walk only on the footpath They have footpaths?

by z9znz 4y ago

bergenty 4y ago

Litter was a much, much bigger problem than it currently is in Indian cities. It’s on the right trajectory. I went to Thailand 8 years ago and there was tons of litter, maybe it was a quick turnaround. This is from a few years ago— https://youtu.be/hufC33MvmSw https://youtu.be/hufC33MvmSw

z9znz 4y ago
That video is of a rubbish dump, and it's talking about the amount of trash produced by Bangkok. And as Bangkok has about 10 million people, large amounts of trash are expected. With some quick searching, I found estimates that the US per capita generates between 2 and 7 kg of waste per day per person. Thailand's number is less than 2kg. I think the special challenge of a city like Bangkok is how rapidly it grew. But as evidenced by improvements in public transport over the last decade, I wouldn't be surprised if waste management had also improved. So perhaps it was much dirtier in the past. And let's not forget tourism. 22 million people visit Bangkok per year, compared to 14 million for NYC. That's a lot of extra garbage that probably is not counted in the per capita figured.

agileAlligator 4y ago

>walk only on the footpath They have footpaths?