Now, I understand the source of the acrid plastic smoke that sometimes comes from the south of the city when the wind blows north... They are burning a lot of highly flammable plastics -- very toxic material to fire the kilns -- like old clothing made of poly, etc...

How sad for these poor folk...

Cambodia: Fast fashion helps fuel blazing kilns where workers faint from heat

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68102771

The article below pretends the government is doing something about the environment.

The air in south Phnom Penh is much less good than this article purports...

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501433989/ ... ic-health/

"The Minister of Environment reported that Cambodia regularly monitors air quality through automated equipment and stations in Phnom Penh and other provinces. The air quality index is displayed at an optimal level with minor variations, with PM2.5 inertia averaging between 9.21 µg/m3 and 32.68 µg/m3. The past air quality index levels did not pose health risks to the Cambodian people."

Just utter rubbish and lies. The air is so bad, when I climb the stairs day or night, I can feel the congestion in my chest and throat... I have to occasionally take bronco-dilator pills, "Salbutamol"...

When I climbed up the stairs of my friend's place in Siem Reap last weekend, no pressure, no congestion...

Shit hell, when will these fucking grunts stop lying all the time!?

Nobody else notices this phenomenon?

I am in Sihanoukville this weekend.

...on the beach north of town: OMG, just fresh breeze, clean air and it makes me want to move back to a cheap room and who cares if there are no women here not controlled by Chinese shysters...

Blah!

Then all the expats should leave the city completely... I am sure the dust and smog up by the Riverside area is the equivalent of the plastic burning down here...

The pollution is very bad, especially the burning of plastic in the kilns, which you can smell easily all across the south part of Phnom Penh from Boeung Tumpun to Toul Tum Pun late into the night... The brainless cretins in the Ministry of Environment are just lazy bums who pretend everything is okay. Cretins and imbeciles. If they were so serious about preventing disease from second-hand smoke, they would outlaw charcoal completely. But they don't have to smell it in their luxury SUVs and hermetically sealed restaurants and offices...

Siem Reap isn't much better, though. I lived there in Svay Dankum, which is the old town beside the river on the east side north of #6, and it is full of grand old trees... and this time of year, people are constantly burning dry leaves. That is a dry acrid smoke, quite irritating. So Siem Reap is not ideal.

For a fact, I think the only place with fresh air more or less is the seaside. Everywhere else they are burning either trash in kilns or rubbish and grass and fallow fields...

Of course, it isn't really the government's fault if you take into consideration the fact that nobody listens to their advice about not burning trash...

The people of Cambodia are just too damn poor and feckless. They don't care about what they do.

That is the real issue here... Ignorant peasants... And careless rulers. Same in Thailand, Indo, Vietnam...

The only populous fresh air place in SE Asia is Singapore ...

orichá wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:20 am Of course, it isn't really the government's fault if you take into consideration the fact that nobody listens to their advice about not burning trash...

The people of Cambodia are just too damn poor and feckless. They don't care about what they do.

That is the real issue here... Ignorant peasants... And careless rulers. Same in Thailand, Indo, Vietnam...

The only populous fresh air place in SE Asia is Singapore ...

In their defense, most areas in this country have no garbage collection, so what do you do?

No problems in Kampot like that. Little bit dusty but that's because of no bloody rain, but not like Sihanoukville back in the day. That was awful and I had eye infections all the time.

Still, could be worse. We could be in Northern Thailand...

Wow. I wonder if the people living in the U.S. on 20+ acres of land in $750,000+ homes who burn their trash are ignorant peasants.