This National Park In Thailand Had Enough Of Tourists Littering, So They Started Mailing The Trash Tourists Left Behind Back To Their Homes
Even though thousands of people, for some reason, still can’t wrap their heads around it, littering has a huge negative impact on our environment. For instance, all kinds of toxic materials and chemicals found in the trash can be blown or washed into rivers, forests, lakes, and oceans, and can eventually pollute waterways or soil. Moreover, litter reduces air quality, can encourage the spread of diseases, and can kill animals. The list goes on.
People and authorities all over the world are looking for ways to encourage people to behave responsibly and not to litter. For instance, common practices include littering penalties, community clean-up events, anti-littering campaigns, and so on. Though recently, Khao Yai National Park came up with an idea to discourage people from littering that is quite unique, to say the least. They decided to send all the trash to visitors who left it there.
Fed up with guests leaving trash, Khao Yai National Park came up with an innovative idea to teach them a lesson
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Varawut Silpa-archa, Thailand’s minister of natural resources and environment, shared some photos of boxes full of trash collected at the National Park and announced that all the trash would be collected, packed, and sent to guests who left it there. “The garbage that tourists left in the park is now packed into boxes. It’s ready to be returned to the owners of the garbage,” he writes in the post.
“You have forgotten some of your belongings at the Khao Yai National Park. Please let us return these to you,” reads the note
Image credits: TOPVarawut
In order to inform the tourists where the trash came from, they added a note saying this: “You have forgotten some of your belongings at the Khao Yai National Park. Please let us return these to you.”
Turns out, when guests come to the park, they sign in with their contact information, including their home address
Image credits: TOPVarawut
You’re probably wondering—how does the National Park know where to send this trash? Well, the answer is simple. When guests come to the park, they sign in with their contact information, including their home address.
Here’s how people on the internet feel about this idea
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Share on FacebookHow do they match the trash to the visitor? If a visitor cleans up after themselves, would the caretakers know this? Or would the clean visitor still receive trash in the mail? I do like the idea though. I wonder if anyone would spend the $ to send it back to the beach, campsite, etc? Like tit for tat.
Before entering the National Park, visitors need to finished registration which required your personal information e.g. contact info.
Load More Replies...How do they know which visitor it belonged to, though? Are they taken from a campsite or something?
For your first question, kindly find my answer I made to V Martinez. For the second question, yes, most of the trashes'd been taken from the campsite where they stayed
Load More Replies...Yes, the park might have to pay for the mailing but those who has received their trash will also be fined too.
Load More Replies...It's not really fair too assume someone left trash, just because they were one of the guests that were there. Every time i go to the beach, not only do i throw away all of my own trash, but i collect other trash and throw that away, too. I'd be incredibly hurt and insulted if i received a box of 'my' trash in the mail after that. Unless they're using fingerprints or have the guests log all the items they brought with them, i can't possibly see how they truly know who left trash, and who didn't.
I wish I could show this story to some of the commentors on another BP post. They just didn't understand the meaning of the "karma" concept. This is the meaning! You receive the consequences of your actions. Thailand's government really tries to apply Buddhist principles to the way they run the country.
Having never been to a national park even here in the US,. is it a common thing to be required to provide contact information and address in order to enter? That just seems like a huge breach of privacy...
huh so basically the idea is mail the trash equally to force a change in attitude or maybe awareness to the problem they ignore thinking it not a big deal? it interesting since everyone shall share the blame to be more aware even the one who doesn't litter to take the burden of picking up after others and themselves or bring attention to litterbug to the staff so less trash sent there way could work! forced the trash to be everyone's unpleasant problem! then it enforce hate for litterbugs enforcing a new habit to pick up trash in the park to be a good guest
Only human trash leaves behind trash; they shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. My mother told us kids to put a candy wrapper in the pocket and throw it in the garbage when we got home; to put an empty soda can in the book-bag and put it into the recycling bin, etc. So simple, no extra effort needed, why are majority of people irresponsible, appalling, destructive and cruel sub- to any creature occupying this planet?
How they know which visitors left the litter, who pays for the mail? I think will be easier to post a photo and address them by Twitter.
I don't care how they match it. As long as they give it back. If I rec'd a box & didn't leave any, I might be aggravated but I'd just throw it away.
How do they match the trash to the visitor? If a visitor cleans up after themselves, would the caretakers know this? Or would the clean visitor still receive trash in the mail? I do like the idea though. I wonder if anyone would spend the $ to send it back to the beach, campsite, etc? Like tit for tat.
Before entering the National Park, visitors need to finished registration which required your personal information e.g. contact info.
Load More Replies...How do they know which visitor it belonged to, though? Are they taken from a campsite or something?
For your first question, kindly find my answer I made to V Martinez. For the second question, yes, most of the trashes'd been taken from the campsite where they stayed
Load More Replies...Yes, the park might have to pay for the mailing but those who has received their trash will also be fined too.
Load More Replies...It's not really fair too assume someone left trash, just because they were one of the guests that were there. Every time i go to the beach, not only do i throw away all of my own trash, but i collect other trash and throw that away, too. I'd be incredibly hurt and insulted if i received a box of 'my' trash in the mail after that. Unless they're using fingerprints or have the guests log all the items they brought with them, i can't possibly see how they truly know who left trash, and who didn't.
I wish I could show this story to some of the commentors on another BP post. They just didn't understand the meaning of the "karma" concept. This is the meaning! You receive the consequences of your actions. Thailand's government really tries to apply Buddhist principles to the way they run the country.
Having never been to a national park even here in the US,. is it a common thing to be required to provide contact information and address in order to enter? That just seems like a huge breach of privacy...
huh so basically the idea is mail the trash equally to force a change in attitude or maybe awareness to the problem they ignore thinking it not a big deal? it interesting since everyone shall share the blame to be more aware even the one who doesn't litter to take the burden of picking up after others and themselves or bring attention to litterbug to the staff so less trash sent there way could work! forced the trash to be everyone's unpleasant problem! then it enforce hate for litterbugs enforcing a new habit to pick up trash in the park to be a good guest
Only human trash leaves behind trash; they shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. My mother told us kids to put a candy wrapper in the pocket and throw it in the garbage when we got home; to put an empty soda can in the book-bag and put it into the recycling bin, etc. So simple, no extra effort needed, why are majority of people irresponsible, appalling, destructive and cruel sub- to any creature occupying this planet?
How they know which visitors left the litter, who pays for the mail? I think will be easier to post a photo and address them by Twitter.
I don't care how they match it. As long as they give it back. If I rec'd a box & didn't leave any, I might be aggravated but I'd just throw it away.
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