Why is Singapore’s household recycling rate stagnant? [News] By Linette Lim, Channel NewsAsia, 27 Jun 2016 For two years, Hougang resident Padmarani Srivatsan has been collecting raw food scraps – like vegetable and fruit peel – that she throws out from her kitchen, turning it into soil nutrients for her plants. “It’s black gold,†she said, picking up a handful…
The Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) recently released the Household Recycling Study, which was conducted from Aug 2012 to Jan 2013, involving a nationwide survey of 2,500 respondents and 5 focus group discussions of 10 participants each.
The study was done to understand the state of household recycling in Singapore and the factors that hinder or motivate…
Should recycling be compulsory? [News] By Richard Hartung, Today, 5 Jun 2012. We may be a clear leader in some vital environmental practices like recycling, but all is not rosy – or verdant, as the case may be – for Singapore, which is at the same time a low-ranked laggard with a massive ecological footprint. With recycling at 59 per…