{"id":542,"date":"2013-03-19T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/?p=542"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T15:11:00","slug":"why-does-no-one-in-thailand-recycle-bangkok-is-a-polluted-mess-yet-everyone-uses-cfls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/2013\/03\/19\/why-does-no-one-in-thailand-recycle-bangkok-is-a-polluted-mess-yet-everyone-uses-cfls\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does no one in Thailand recycle, Bangkok is a polluted mess, yet everyone uses CFLs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/thailand-where-environmentalism-sort-rules\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-544 alignright\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/32\/files\/2013\/03\/thai-traffic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/32\/files\/2013\/03\/thai-traffic.jpg 387w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/32\/files\/2013\/03\/thai-traffic-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a>Few Thais recycle, no one bikes, plastic bags are everywhere and Bangkok is afflicted by gridlock and pollution. So you might say that, in general, Thais behave more like citizens of a rapidly emerging economy than the typical Brooklyn environmentalist.<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, does virtually every home use efficient compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). Americans and Europeans needed a ban on incandescent bulbs to make the switch. Not so the Thais, where you can still buy cheaper, more inefficient incandescent bulbs at the corner store.<\/p>\n<p>Was it the influence of a higher authority? Thais famously revere their 85-year-old King, the world\u2019s longest-reigning head of state, who happens to be an environmentalist.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is, mostly, no.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/thailand-where-environmentalism-sort-rules\">Continue reading at EDF Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few Thais recycle, no one bikes, plastic bags are everywhere and Bangkok is afflicted by gridlock and pollution. So you might say that, in general, Thais behave more like citizens of a rapidly emerging economy than the typical Brooklyn environmentalist. Why, then, does virtually every home use efficient compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). Americans and Europeans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16683],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-agreement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why does no one in Thailand recycle, Bangkok is a polluted mess, yet everyone uses CFLs? - Market Forces<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/2013\/03\/19\/why-does-no-one-in-thailand-recycle-bangkok-is-a-polluted-mess-yet-everyone-uses-cfls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why does no one in Thailand recycle, Bangkok is a polluted mess, yet everyone uses CFLs? - Market Forces\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Few Thais recycle, no one bikes, plastic bags are everywhere and Bangkok is afflicted by gridlock and pollution. 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