Phuket Clean Campaign

Keep Phuket lean, the grass roots community clean-up project, created by the Summer in Phuket campaign, is gaining momentum after the successful Clean Phuket Day on 28 May, which resulted in the island’s top resorts and businesses leading over 3,000 local people in the cleanup of 20 locations around the island.

Organisers of the island-wide follow-up on 2 July had over 7,000 local participants with an even broader involvement from Phuket’s schools, charitable organisations, construction industry and local government.

The clean-up added locations on the east coast, including beaches at Chalong, Phuket Town and the marinas stretching up to Sarasin Bridge. This included a major clean-up around the beach area at Ao Po, led by the staff and managers of TGR Group Asia, the developer behind Jumeirah Private Island.

British International School students, eager to be involved in the island-wide clean-up, created their own in-school campaign before the end of term, collecting nearly two tones of recyclable paper from around the school, 63 kilos of plastic, a kilo of PET water bottles, and nearly fifty kilos of newspaper and cardboard.

The students also initiated two ongoing awareness campaigns to reduce plastic usage, and cut the school’s output of food waste from the refectory.

News by phuket-post.com