How are you getting by without handfuls of plastic bags? Getting by with two hands or something more creative?
Dozens of malls and stores stopped providing single-use plastic bags since New Year’s Day, and some Thais have been quick to adapt with a heavy dose of cheeky ingenuity.
Makeup artist Atcharin “Top” Prahoosri on Thursday went viral after he was seen using a layered meat dryer to shop at a 7-Eleven store in Sa Kaeo province.
“With this, you can separate types of groceries as well. It’s so chic!” Top wrote on Facebook.
His creativity even impressed 7-Eleven store itself, the official Facebook page said they will reward the man a tote bag signed by rock star and charity hero Artiwara “Toon” Khongmalai of Bodyslam.
Other than Top, others showed their innovative spirit by shopping with water buckets, braided baskets and rice sacks. One shopper pushed his wheeled mini-shelf unit into a 7-Eleven to get a six-pack of beer.
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— เจ้าก้อนขี้เกียจ (@papipipp) January 2, 2020
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— พี่เกทครับ (@get_grace_gat) January 2, 2020
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— รีทวิตไปรีทวิตมา (@3xyZNKEO9sfe0eb) January 2, 2020
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— บัมเบิลบี (@BtingBBB) January 3, 2020
FORCED OUT: A VR Experience Inside Bangkok’s Biggest Slum
Not far from Bangkok’s Michelin-starred restaurants and go-go bars stretches a sprawling, riverside slum home to roughly 100,000 people. Invited to live and work there seven decades ago before the Thai capital’s busy port went into decline, they now face mass eviction to make way for a riverside shopping mall.One of them is Ratchani Cheausuwan, a 56-year-old resident who pushes past fear, despair and partial paralysis as the sole means of support for a family of four, including two grandchildren, one of whom has a mental disability.Go beyond the headlines to meet Rachani and step inside Bangkok’s Khlong Toei community in this mixed 3D/180 and VR/360 news feature. Best experienced via a VR headset.
