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LIFE&FAMILY
144
July14
DOWN THE CHUTE
Where does your rubbish go?
CHUTE
RECYCLABLES
Recycling bins are collected from
landed properties, condos and HDB
blocks and transported to a sorting
facility. Waste is not separated.
At the
Material Recovery Facility
waste is sorted into streams:
Starting this year, all new
HDB developments will have
a separate recycling chute.
SOLID WASTE
Singapore’s solid waste output
1970:
1,260 tonnes a day
2012:
8,016 tonnes a day
Singapore has four waste to energy
plants, including Tuas South, which
handles 3,500 tonnes daily and cost
$890 million to build. A fifth plant,
being constructed by Sembcorp for
$250 million, will handle 1,000 tonnes
of waste daily.
Paper
Glass
Clothes
Plastic
Ferrous
Non-ferrous
By Katie Roberts
Designed by Beatrice Ng