Chute choked up till third floor at Canberra Crescent blocks due to 'refuse collection problem'

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were among foul-smelling trash spilling out of rubbish chutes that greeted some residents in Canberra Crescent at their common corridors earlier this week.

A Sembawang Town Council spokesman said its newly appointed waste collection company had faced a refuse collection problem.

"It was quite worrying because I have a newborn baby boy and our unit is near the chute," said Ms Oh, who is 34 and unemployed. "Rubbish bins were left there as a temporary solution so that residents didn't have to leave bags of trash on the ground," he said. Added the second-floor resident who declined to give her full name: "My biggest concern was seeing used face masks sticking out of the chute because that's a common area where the virus might spread."

 

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Think is OYK ward...... Too busy in covid

At least the new contractor was given a chance to redeem itself by not having its name published.

the refuse collector refuse to collect the refuse?

The ST: no article questionning what the gvt did wrong to have Singapore classified as a covid data « black hole » by the US; no article questionning the migrant workers apartheid, no article questionning Sing Airlines poching 7 wild lions. But an article on a blocked garbage bin

Wa...need deploy grassroot to clear?

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