SINGAPORE: More people were caught littering in Singapore last year, with more than 20,000 tickets issued, the National Environment Agency said in an annual report released on Monday .
From 2020 to 2022, NEA investigated an average of 31,200 high-rise littering reports annually. Over the same period, it deployed an average of 2,600 cameras each year.. Since Jul 1, when an act of littering from a flat is proven, registered owners or tenants of the unit are presumed to have committed the acts.
To further drive home the impact of littering, NEA introduced CWO sessions at city areas in Chinatown and Tanjong Pagar in November 2022, and in the vicinity of Farrer Park from July 2023.As of Aug 28, NEA has issued close to 900 warnings and a fine for table littering, which includes not returning used trays and crockery or leaving litter on the table at hawker centres, coffee shops and food courts.
To attain a Class 1 licence, cleaning businesses will have to ensure that cleaners are trained in additional competencies and the business must have a good track record. They must also be equipped with more resources to"provide greater assurance of their ability to undertake larger cleaning contracts".
They spoke about the challenges faced by the cleaning industry, digitalisation, the use of automation to attract and retain talent, and how the public can play a part in maintaining a clean environment. With the increase in the proportion of DENV-1, which was prevalent almost a decade ago, coupled with the high Aedes aegypti mosquito population, Singapore may see"sustained high level of dengue transmission" towards the end of the year, said NEA.
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