Recycling and next, Reduction!

Tanjong Pagar Town Council changed the recycling service available to their Buona Vista Division from July 2013 – Veolia has placed recycling bins at each block and are clearing them three times a week.

The previous arranged was a bi-monthly doorstep collection. Both methods took in a variety of unsorted recyclables.

With this method, you can see what people are disposing at recycling bins – and it seems this new method has been embraced enthusiastically. The prominent location of the bins certainly reminds everyone about putting in some effort to recycle.

Hopefully this will mean a greater proportion of our recyclable waste makes it to these bins.

According to NEA’s Singapore Waste Statistics and Recycling Rate 2012, plastic recycling is at the bottom of the class – only 10% was recycled last year.

While we work on plastic recycling, ultimately we have to also keep an eye on reduction – in 2012 we generated 1,370 kg of waste, up from 1,330 kg in 2011 .

See Zero Waste SG for more.

Learn more, DO something!

Ria Tan of Wild Shores Singapore, exhorts her readers to DO something – this time she’s talking about attending my public lecture (Sat 03 Aug 2013) about marine life, marine trash and solutions for a better planet.

And you can get your hands dirty soon after by joining me for the post-National Day mangrove cleanup on Sat 10 Aug 2013.

(Click to read her post!)

After this baptism of action, spread the word – you CAN make a difference, and it begins with a single step.

(Click to read!)

Singapore has dozens of opportunities to explore and learn about nature from a variety of activities and people! And you are lucky, all you have to do is check the Wild Singapore Happenings webpage, managed by Ria Tan.