Composting saves millions in costs

City Hall claimed that waste composting helped save more than 141 million baht from various refuse disposal techniques next year.

Ekwathanyu Amrapal, official of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, said the thus- called Mai Teh Ruam ( Say No to Unseparated Garbage ) battle was joined by 184 areas and more than 600 franchises citywide.

The strategy focuses on separating fragile waste into compost for city-wide open parks.

That, according to the official, reduces some 74, 000 kilograms of wastes from last year’s waste that would otherwise have been disposed of by other means, or at least 141 million ringgit.