Cap - Recycling and Waste Banks in Thailand
Cap headed over to Thailand for a filming project in 2017. She ended up on Koh Phangan filming Muay Thai, met her boyfriend then decided to move permanently to Thailand. Cap landed herself a position with the Jan and Oscar Foundation.
Jan and Oscar Foundation was founded in 2005, by a Swiss mother who lost her two children in the tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004. The foundation was started to help the disadvantaged children who were affected by this devastating event. Sometime later, they learnt about the Moken People (Episode #8) in the Ranong district. On a trip out to the islands, they noticed the plastic pollution and in 2019 they started the Ranong Recycle center and social enterprise.
They are the first certified collectors of ocean bound plastic (collected 50km from the coast) and they buy the plastic from the locals at a fair market price. This project has been able to collect hundreds of tonnes of plastic from the ocean and has sold it to their partners to be recycled into other items. Not only this, the Jan and Oscar foundation has been able to support local communities, provide jobs for people and to educate the area on the effects of ocean pollution.
Tune In
What is the Jan and Oscar Foundation - 9:20
What plastic is worth the most - 13:30
What happens to the plastic after its collected - 18:00
Hear how this project has helped change the mindset of the locals 21:00
Waste Banks in Thailand - 22:15
More Info
Jan and Oscar Foundation -https://www.fondationjan-oscar.ch/en/home-en/
Episode #8 with Fiona - https://anchor.fm/chasintravels/episodes/8--Sea-Gypsies--Sterilization-Projects-and-Combating-Waste-in-Thailand-e186tnb
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