SINGAPORE: Residents in towns managed by the People’s Action Party will be encouraged to adopt a zero waste lifestyle, through a cash-for-recycling programme and more paper recycling machines set up in their estate, the party announced on Saturday .
When the COVID-19 situation improves, outreach programmes will be conducted to raise awareness of these machines among residents, PAP added in its press release. As part of the initiative, all of the PAP’s 15 town councils has a Member of Parliament as a"sustainability champion". “We came out with a report card, and this report clearly shows what they’ve done over the years and how much impact it made,” said Dr Wan Rizal.
Chair of PAP’s Action for Green Towns Taskforce Dr Wan Rizal and Coordinating Chairman Lim Biow Chuan at the launch of new recycling machines in PAP-managed towns. More than 3,000 lifts across PAP towns will be replaced by 2025 with more reliable and “electricity-saving” models when they reach their recommended lifespan, said the party.
Currently, almost all the common area lights in PAP-managed estates have been changed to energy-saving LED lights.
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