Hi @blackkim thank you for your post. I am living in north Thailand for a long time now and living in the country side too. I always been surprised to see farmers burning everything from plastic to things they can use to make fertilizer. I believe the lack of education about the environment was the problem. Today things here get much better. The King in the past few years had made some program to educate people both in town and country side. Now in almost every part of the country we have some recycles companies who pay for buying your plastic, metal, and papers and the program had taught people on how to do fertilizer from organic garbage. So today I see most of the people are collecting their garbage and sell it to the recycling company. This is a good thing. Thailand is a nice country and they really handle their problem the right way with enough investment to make it work fast.