Donors are being advised to switch from styrofoam food containers to biodegradable bagasse ones when supplying free food to mourners at Sanam Luang as thousands of boxes have been left abandoned at the grounds after visitors leave posing a headache for city cleaners
Around 100,000 styrofoam food boxes are used each day Many are being left as rubbish that we cannot dispose of easily said Prinya Thaewanarumitkul vice rector of Thammasat University in his capacity as the director of the university's Volunteers for Dad coordination centre at Sanam Luang
For the sake of the environment let's switch to biodegradable bagasse containers he said
Plastic water bottles are compounding the problem as mourners are drinking several bottles a day while at Sanam Luang where the weather and crowds have been creating hot conditions he said