Bangkok authorities estimate the city normally produces 8,000 tons of waste daily, and trucks the garbage to one of three landfills, two of those sites are now underwater
In Flooded Bangkok, Trash Collectors Struggle to Keep Up
A garbage collection truck ploughs through waist-deep water in Phet Kasem, Bangkok, where waste has been piling up for six days without collection. The truck was full after just two stops, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)
Buddha images are wrapped in plastic and tethered to trees so they don't float away in the waist-deep water in Phet Kasem, Bangkok, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)
A Buddhist monk recovers a robe from debris after flood waters receded in Ayutthaya, November 9, 2011. (Reuters)
A Buddha's statue sits amidst trash at a half-flooded street corner in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand November 8, 2011. (AP)
A man stays dry, napping in a large fish bowl on a flooded sidewalk in Phet Kasem, Bangkok, where flood waters have been waist deep for one week, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)
A shop normally specializing in wall-papers and laminates started producing its own home made boats using fiber-board and adhesive oil cloth since its neighborhood, Phet Kasem, Bangkok, flooded one week ago, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)
An outdoor restaurant in Phet Kasem, Bangkok, remains open for business despite flooding, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)
A couple at the market buying groceries in Phet Kasem, Bangkok, where water has been waist-deep for a week, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)
A family evacuates a flooded area in northern Bangkok with their TV on a homemade raft, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)
A resident of Phet Kasem, Bangkok, where water has been waist-deep for one week got lucky while fishing in the street, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)
A protester in Bangkok's Klong Sam Wa demonstrates that the water in which his neighborhood has been flooded for three months has become rancid, November 9, 2011. (VOA - G. Paluch)