Thailand Stumbles Towards Waste Crisis

As a vast rubbish dump home to six million tonnes of putrefying trash and toxic effluent was set ablaze, it has kindled fears that poor planning and lax law enforcement are tipping Thailand towards a waste crisis. Locals had long pressed for the closure of the foul-smelling Praeksa landfill site, which is wedged between a cluster of industrial estates on the fringes of Bangkok. But a ferocious eight-day fire that cloaked the eastern suburbs of the capital ...