The Straits Times reports that, City workers of Thailand's capital Bangkok are fighting 'a constant battle' to remove up to 2000 tons of plastic waste from the sewers each day. According to government figures, Bangkok generates around 11500 tonnes of waste daily, of which at least one tonne is plastic - a figure that is said to be increasing by 10% every year. Meanwhile, the average Thai uses no less than eight plastic bags a day, which is far higher than, for example, the 80 plastic bags used annually by consumers in France. In Bangkok, only 16% of plastic scrap is recycled annually, and the reason for the low recycling rate is that resource efficiency and recyclability are not a priority for most of the city’s inhabitants and recycling in Thailand is handled mainly by the informal sector and the national recycling rate is around 30%.