Main image via The New York Times
Nobody likes litterbugs. And if you’re one of these people, you might want to think twice about throwing your rubbish anywhere you please at this national park in Thailand.
Park officials at the Khao Yai National Park near Bangkok are using a unique and most definitely, effective way to deal with litterbugs - they mail it back to you!
That’s right! If you decide to just throw your food wrapper away at this park, that food wrapper will come back to haunt you!
Thailand’s Environment Minister took to Facebook to warn patrons who visit national parks, saying, “I will pick up every single piece of your trash, pack them well in a box and mail it to your home as a souvenir.”
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He also posted photos of a delivery box containing a transparent trash bag filled with used plastic water bottles, soda cans, torn packs of chips and sunflower seeds.
The box seen in the post even came with a note: “You have forgotten some of your belongings at the Khao Yai National Park. Please let us return these to you.”
How is this enforced?
It’s understood that visitors to the park have to register with their addresses, making it easy for rangers to track them down if they leave rubbish behind.
Also, offenders will be registered with the police.
Thailand’s tourism board even praised the unorthodox move, saying, “We applaud Khao Yai National Park and The Minister of Natural Resources and Environment for their commitment to maintaining the beauty and wellbeing of our country’s natural resources.”
Think we should start implementing this here in Malaysia?
By: Piravina Ragunathan
Info via The New York Times
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