Can old traditions and tech help Singapore reach zero waste?

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Christopher Tan, director of NEA's sustainability division says he sees karang guni men and women playing an important role as part of the Singapore's recycling network.

Madam Ng has been working as a karang guni for over three decadesIn the quiet of the early morning, the low rumble of her heavily laden trolley reverberates through the streets of the historic Tiong Bahru area of Singapore.

Madam Ng became a karang guni more than three decades ago, as she wanted to make extra money to help pay for one of her daughters to study abroad. The sudden halt saw the country's overall recycling rate, for homes and businesses combined, fall to 52% in 2020 compared to 59% the previous year.The National Environment Agency , which is charge of Singapore's recycling efforts, thinks that this was just a blip and is now focussed on plans to become a zero-waste economy.

"We have forged partnerships with a network of karang gunis... with more than 100 of them as part of the ezi network," says Goh Siok Ling, SembWaste's commercial director. Mr Ang sees the use of apps as a big step forward, "with young blood in the company we can run the business in a better way, especially with technology". He says this is what helped convince him to enter the trade - and to improve it.

 

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