Ideas from public workgroup aim to help Singaporeans 'recycle right'

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A mobile application that provides incentives and discounts to motivate customers to take their own containers to 'dabao' (take-away) their food, instead of using single-use plastic containers. And transparent recycling bins that let people see what they are throwing into...

The app would involve merchants keying in a pin code to register users who bring their own containers instead of using single-use containers.

Meanwhile, Mr Lim Chwen Liang, 55, said his team proposed the idea of transparent bins to replace Singapore's current blue recycling ones. "We found that blue recycling bins were full of contamination, which makes whatever is in the bin unable to be recycled," he said. Other proposals included a suggestion to use community influencers to motivate people to recycle only clean and dried items, and a deposit-and-recycle system for beverage containers.Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Environment and Water Resources, commended the workgroup on its efforts to address the challenge of convincing more Singaporeans to recycle right."This is a real challenge, and we are hoping some of the ideas raised can improve the recycling rate.

 

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