When it comes to getting people to recycle more, it is not enough to just provide infrastructure. On Wed, Senior Minister of State for the Environment and Water Resources Amy Khor revealed in Parliament that a national recycling effort, which involves public waste collectors picking up recyclables from the ubiquitous blue bin, collected what worked out to be 2 per cent of the total waste generated by the domestic sector in 2016. Recycling bins and chutes have been rolled out in places such as public and private housing estates under the National Recycling Programme. Despite all this infrastructure, the programme’s success rate has been dismal. The startling figure highlights the urgent need to do more to boost recycling in Singapore. For one thing, the city-state’s only landfill on Semakau Island is filling up at an alarming rate. Its deadline is 2035 – a decade sooner than the original 2045 projection.... Continue Reading