Encourage Singaporeans to follow in the footsteps of the Germans and separated their trash into biodegradable and non-biodegradable, for each household in Singapore. We are unlike what our age-old slogan claims, not as green as we can afford to be. Therefore individual efforts counts.
I fully agree with what Tiffany has proposed. It may be painful and very difficult in the beginning but results will come if everybody work together.
Most of our immigrants' countries are already practising that so they will have no problem in adapting to it. It is our own Singaporeans! Can start from Primary Schools and Secondary Schools.
Best still, start with converting all the bins in Singapore to recyclable items bins! Must be daring sometimes!
Yes, the last time I went to Taiwan, I noticed their bins being separated into paper, plastic, metal categories for easier separation during recycling. I think it is a great idea and effort to conserve the environment with the government at the helm through these differentiated rubbish bins. Instead of having recycling bins just at the specific locations where people may not want to walk that few steps more to dispose of the rubbish in the correct categories, having them placed at the usual rubbish bins areas will encourage more Singaporeans to be environmental conscious.
Yes agreed with VL & Chcp18, need to be a little drastic to make changes. I went to Taipei,Taiwan, about 6 yrs back, they just started recycling trash and had bins for paper trash, plastic trash, metal trash, and other trash. My Singaporean group had a nutty time trying to split the rubbish, i.e throw the plastic straws into the plastic trash and aluminium drink cans into the metal trash. And coz if you didn't do it and dump everything into "other" trash, you'll get a penalty of some sort. Since VL said it's still the same in Taiwan that means, it really worked. Maybe Singapore can do the same, instead of placing those huge and unslightly recycing bins in estates, smaller bins with different compartments to replace the current rubbish bins could work better.
Good idea - The question is " Who would bring about these changes ? "
1. Who would be doing it?
2. At what cost?
3. Do you need to educate the public on this?
4. Do you want to experiment on a estate first?
5. What will be the outcome of this project?
Think thru' and submit the full proposal to "Town Council", "HDB" or "Who"?
I think that this is an amazing idea.. I am part British/German/Russian with a Japanese wife who spent the last few years living in Sydney. I was shocked when I arrived here to find that all the garbage gets placed in one of the gazillion plastic bags you receive at the supermarket (recycle/eco friendly shoppers too please!!!) and then just thrown into the hole in the wall..
The environemnt is at the forefront of everyones thoughts these days and the fact that SG does not recycle is a travesty!!! as for educating.. hmm.. it's not hard.. plastic into plastic, metal/tim/aluminium into another, paper in another and glass into another. SG wants to copy Japan in so many things... check out their recycling... (oooh and manners too !!!)
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