Planet Plastic: Thai citizens suffer from plastic addiction and poor waste management (VIDEO)
The “great” 19,200-square-meter Koh Lan landfill, located near the center of one of Thailand’s most beautiful tourist islands, is home to over 50,000 tons of reeking, rotting trash that’s slowly accumulated over the past six years. Most garbage dumps don’t have a listing on Google Maps. This one does.
Its very existence, activists and locals say, is a testament to the lack of waste management solutions being offered by the Thai government. And as the sixth-largest contributor of ocean plastic pollution in the world, Thailand is desperately in need of solutions.
