Food Deliveries During COVID-19 Lockdown Fuel Thailand Plastic Usage
A motorcycle taxi driver waits for customers at Khao San Road, empty of tourists due to the restrictions on entry by foreigners into Thailand due to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, in Bangkok on June 16, 2020. Single-use plastic waste in Thailand ballooned during the coronavirus lockdown as demand for home food deliveries soared, activists say, setting back efforts to reduce the country’s dependency on the environmental scourge.
Urban waste almost doubled between January and March from a year ago mainly due to increased food deliveries, says Wijarn Simachaya, president of the Thailand Environment Institute.“The situation is really worrying,” he says. Over the last year all of those countries have pledged, or introduced, new rules to ban single-use plastic bags and other throwaway items.Before then Thais on average used eight bags a day, 12 times more than a resident of the European Union.
But some cities in Japan have reported an increase in plastic waste, even though its citizens are better at recycling.
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