Thread: Dong Tarn Beach, Sattahip Facing Severe Garbage Problems

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Originally Posted by klong toey

Same as Bangsean,the beach is a bloody mess

My son went to Bangsaen for the weekend a couple of weeks ago, I asked him how he enjoyed Bangsaen, he just said the place is covered in rubbish and the sea was filthy.

I don't understand it,last year the sea was clean as was the beach i know they had a bad incident with litter a few years back.
But we don't go swimming in the sea anymore,we use the pool at our condo,when we walked the beach last time,full of litter and dead fish not good.
They had a JCB followed by a tractor a trailer to clean the mess up.
I can't work out where it is all coming from.

Doesn't the City of Pattaya still dump their trash in the Gulf? When I lived there, whenever I would ride past the pier, I would see and smell the trash trucks offloading their garbage onto boats.

Gad, Dongtarn Beach is a Gay beach.

Its a lovely evening stroll down there after dark

Fvcking filthy grubs, the lot of em.

There are a few passable beaches in Thailand, depending on the wind and tide. Certainly not a reason to visit though.

Here is what the poster I mentioned wrote :

I used to live on Koh Chang and wondered where all the garbage went. A LOT of garbage on an island where there is NO place to put it.
No pick up in the daytime. Always after midnight. And who wants to follow a garbage truck on a motorbike anyway?

Naturally, when I inquired of Thai-- resort owners and even a government official who was a friend-- they looked perplexed. And why did I want to know, anyway? Uhm, just curious.

Skip ahead to two years later and a few weeks ago. Doing a bit of fishing off the coast of Trad. See something VERY big in the water passing--with almost imperceptable speed-- by Little Koh Chang, coming from the east or north side of Koh Chang. As it drew closer I could see it was a barge. Not just any barge, but 4 barges trained together grudgingly fighting their way to sea. I got close enough to see mountains of fluttering garbage on each barge. I could smell it a couple of miles away.

Skip ahead to a few days later. Walked down to the tiny beach where I'm building a house. Usually one or two days a week the beach will be littered with garbage (to be washed out by the next high tide) mostly from fishing boats--or fishing boats. There is always bottles and disposable lighters. Sometimes some hospital trash.

This day was unbeliveable.

Plastics, lighters, shoes, cups, bottles, oil filters, hospital waste such as syringes and vials, a TV--yes, a TV--huge amounts of styrofoam and more. It was impassable. It was in the water, too.

It took three high tides to take it all away.

I remember as a kid, I read where New York barged its garbage out to sea. I believe it was something like 70 or 80 miles into very deep Atlantic water--probably where the currents would take it to Cuba, or maybe England (still not right and I don't know if they still do this?--anybody?) but I'm guessing that with sophisticated fuel cost accounting by its crew ( ) the Koh Chang Express didn't go more than a few miles before it dumped in the relatively shallow waters of the Gulf of Thailand. In a diving spot highly touted by Thai tourist agencies.

What were two posters saying yesterday about how Thailand carefully watches anything that would affect tourism? Uh-huh.

DIVE KOH CHANGS NATURAL SYRINGE REEFS IN CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER! (PLEASE DON'T TOUCH THE NEEDLE FISH).

Wonder why their reefs are turning white?

Think I'll give up eating fish. Can't eat Kobe beef anymore, either.

*sigh*

^ Surely there must be some international maritime law that prevents this? Hell I'm not saying the Thai's will ever follow said law, but there must be something in place that's designed to prevent this?

Any maritime law experts on TD?????

If there's no law, and the Thai's are required to just follow common sense, then we're fvcked.

Some of the beaches around Banchang are a fukcing disgrace as well, mostly Phayoon. Some of the people "picknicking" there don't feel like they've had a good day out unless they've managed to strew their own body-weight in garbage behind them before they leave. Despite the marked litter drums right next to them, the slack-jawed bovine dolts just chuck it down on the floor. "Uuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.."

Someone should put up a banner saying "Welcome To Phayoon Festival Of Litter" to embarrass them into at least trying..

Good idea ! Take a couple of snaps of them before they leave and stick the photos (which you of course have laminated) on the bottom of the poster with the caption : "Hosted by these people". If the people concerned are not locals and don't come back the next weekend, at least it will give a message to anyone else considering something as moronic.