THOSE already in Phuket or will be there this weekend might like to join a big cleanup of Kamala Beach on Saturday October 1, 2016 with there to be free food and drinks for participants and no signing up required.
Trash Hero is a grassroots organization which won the Green Excellence Award in 2015 and has inspired cleanups around the country and beyond.
Its goal is to create sustainable, community-based projects that will remove existing waste and reduce future waste by inspiring long-term behavior change. This is done through the following:
- Action and Awareness: Picking up trash be it a cigarette butt on the road or 20,000 kilos from island beaches because as is well known action speaks louder than words.
- Education: Backing up hands-on experience with educational information about the impact that trash has on the global environment.
- Sustainable projects: Creating long-term projects that bring communities together to remove and better manage waste and work out strategies to reduce the amount of waste produced in future.
- Inspiration: Motivating people to become Trash heroes in their everyday lives.
Meanwhile Kamala Green Club coordinates a private sector supported initiative for waste management and community education for a greener Kamala Beach.
CAPTIONS:
TOP: Trash heroes cheer after spending hours cleaning a Phuket beach.
INSET: A Trash Hero artwork on a Phuket beach.
By Thai Residents reporters
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