Tag: Vivian Balakrishnan

S’pore’s increasing waste poses potential crisis [News]

S’pore’s increasing waste poses potential crisis [News] By Kok Xing Hui, TODAY, 3 Jul 2013. The dense haze episode two weeks ago was a “special, extreme case of waste disposal gone wrong”, said Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan yesterday. It was agricultural waste incinerated out in the open, leading to smog in the air that people…

Excerpts fron the Speech by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Committee of Supply Debate 2013 [Speeches]

Excerpts fron the Speech by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Committee of Supply Debate 2013 [Speeches] Read the full speech of the COS debate by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan – Part 1 and Part 2. On Waste: We have made some changes. We have reduced the number of Public Waste Collection sectors from nine to six…

Compulsory for large hotels, malls to report waste data [News]

Compulsory for large hotels, malls to report waste data [News] By Grace Chua, The Straits Times, 7 Mar 2012. In a bid to cut waste and boost recycling, the Government is making it compulsory for large hotels and shopping malls to report how much waste they generate and their targets for reducing and recycling it. Only hotels with more than…