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Published on October 13, 2007

During a meeting with the Rayong tourist agents, Khao Laem Ya National Park chief Sithichai Serisongsaeng proposed that no more foam cups, containers or plastic bags should be permitted for use by tourists, vendors or others on the island.

Ko Samet's five-rai garbage dump site could no longer cope with the ever-increasing amount of indestructible waste, said Sithichai. He called for more rigorous waste management and disposal, beginning with reducing the oversupply of the "ubiquitous and virtually indestructible contemporary packaging materials".

The chief ranger for the national park on the island said there simply wasn't room enough for a continued flow of non-biodegradable trash.

The Nation