Garbage Trash

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has imposed a 10,000 baht (S$437) fine on a hotel

for improperly disposing used condoms and toiletry items.

The items were found at the weekend floating in a canal,

leading to images circulated by Thai netizens expressing their disgust.

City workers completed removing the trash from the canal –

He led officials to inspect the 130-room hotel in question,
identified by name on the disused toiletry packets.
Having found no hotel executives on the premises, and only maids,
the officials learnt that the hotel occasionally hired a Nakhon Pathom-based company
to send workers to collect used condoms and garbage from the hotel's five septic tanks,
none of which were connected to the canal.


They were told that the company's workers had last cleared the tanks on Saturday.

However, since the trash had somehow found its way into the canal, Mr Karuna said

the district office imposed the fine for disposing waste into a canal,
which is a violation of the 1992 Maintenance of Cleanliness and Public Order Act.
, upon returning from the district office after paying the fine
The hotel manager found that officials and journalists were still at the property.
He apologised for what happened

the Nakhon Pathom-based company was hired
to fish out condoms and plastic trash from the septic tanks every six months at 16,000 baht to 18,000 baht per visit,

while the wastewater inside the septic tanks was treated by BMA workers.
The hotel never had this problem before,
he insisted, adding that
his efforts to get an explanation from the waste-collection company have yet to bear fruit.