Late start for me this morning(17th)
. Well 7.10am instead of 6.45. I was woken from a very deep sleep by one of the children knocking on my door.
I wouldn’t have thought much of it, if I had had a particularly hard day yesterday, but that wasn’t the case.
Being an everyday early riser my first morning thoughts were ,’why didnt I wake normally’ and ‘why does my head feel so thick’. A little sniff of the morning air gave me my answer. The air was thick with the acrid smell of something nasty being burned, plastic or maybe rubber, old tyres. I must remember to close my windows tonight.
It is a real issue and regular problem in some of the rural areas, such as the one we are in, where rubbish collection has not been established and the cost of getting rid of the nastier rubbish often leads people to resorting to burning.
On the flip side a benefit of a lack of refuse collection means that many people save their bottles and cans for the recyclers, who do collect, and pay a little for what they take.
If and when rubbish collection is established we can only hope that this does not lead to everything going into one bag and off to landfill.
Hopefully with the recycling culture well established this would not be the case.
At present we have 3 ‘bins’, one for plastic , one for metal and one for glass. The recyclers don’t pay much but 2 months worth got us 65 baht which went straight into the holiday fund…every baht counts:)
