Not sure if you are aware of just quite how seriously we have have taken our efforts for conservation on Ko Tao with regards to sorting out waste & rubbish on the island.
7 ways we are helping with conservation on Ko Tao
To start with all the 7/11’s on the island and by my own reckoning pretty much every shop Ive walked into in the last month or so will not give you a plastic bag anymore. That’s a pretty good start bearing in mind quite how many plastic bags are now not being issued.
Secondly most restaurants bars & businesses, including ours, are using either stainless steel straws or ‘plastic from plants’ straws.
Thirdly, most restaurants including ours will now only serve water from glass bottles thereby reducing the gazillions of plastic bottles brought to Ko Tao every day.
Fourthly- there are now heaps of cigarette Butt bottles all over Ko Tao so that people dispose of their butts in the butt bottles and not on the streets, beaches or in the water.
Fifthly- the local government have banned anchoring here for boats so they have to tie up to mooring lines instead of dropping anchor & causing coral damage.
Sixthly- no more feeding the fishes! Tourist operators are now banned from throwing food overboard and will incur heavy fines if caught.
Seventhly- the islands of Ko Tao have all been recognized as a a no fishing zone, so to fish around Ko Tao you have to be a few kilometers off shore which means all Ko Tao’s dive sites are now unfishable! And finally all the rubbish at the Ko Tao rubbish site has been packed up and is about to be removed from the island! The best news of all.
So now, Ko Tao & people coming to Ko Tao, lets please try & keep this going and lets make next years target to make Ko Tao plastic free! Now wouldn’t that be something!
