Recycle bins useless?
- Thread starter UncleFai
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Who told you that? No offence, but sounds quite ignorant.
In my estate the truck that picks up recyclables is a different garbage truck. They only do clear the big blue bins and nothing else. Also, don't need to be working in the industry to know that it all eventually gets sorted at the plant. I don't think that makes it useless, but it is unproductive. But baby steps, hopefully we'll get there someday.
If the bins are the separated types you see in malls (paper/glass/plastics), it should be bagged. So even if emptied into the same truck, doesn't matter. It should also cut down the workload to a certain extent when sorting.
What does makes it useless are the idiots who throw in food waste, once the recyclables are contaminated, then everyone's effort gets wasted.
http://www.nea.gov.sg/energy-waste/3rs/recycling-processes
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Its true. There 2 types of recycleables ways. One is via the recycle chute located near to the common rubbish chute and another is the blue collection bin located at ground floor near to rubbish collection point.
The rubbish truck collects both the recycleables item and rubbish from both chute at the same time. From the article i read, is actually cheaper and cost effective for them to send all for inceneration then to separate the recycleable items.
On the other hand, the recycleable collection truck only picks up from the blue recycle bin for recycling.
It is important that before recycling, one would need to at least rinse the bottles or recycle items off any residue from food or drinks before recycling.
What a huge fail, why bother with building two chutes then :bsmilie: Which article? Please share
Sion
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We pride ourselves in always doing the right thing instead of what is popular: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/mobile/singapore/un-body-on-tesla/2589878.html
This CNA article didn't say we did the right thing.
The guy had to pay 15k tax for emission generated from electricity. And he can only charge it at home.
Wouldn't that be a double taxation?
What "right thing" are we doing?
Why not they be upfront and just admit that the 15k tax is actually the loss of govt petrol duty tax of the oil cartel we have in SG?
Its v easy to know the real intention of the 15k tax.
Average petrol cost of SG is 80~100 bucks a week for 40 litre tank. That's about 400 a month.
Current govt petrol tax rate is 64 cents per litre. So if u pump 40 litres each week, u paying $25 (based on 98 grade petrol price @ $2.10 per litre) for petrol tax. Every month, it will be $100 for petrol tax.
Multiple 12 months, u pay $1200 a year for petrol tax
Our car only has 10 year life span. So $1200 x 10 =$12000
So that's how LTA come out with $15000 emission tax. Its the loss of petrol tax if someone drives an electric car.
Utter rubbish '"emission" tax
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To some people, doing the right thing simply means grabbing $$$ whenever an opportunity presents itself.
Sometimes it is good to go and see for yourself how they handle recycle waste. Theory and truth are just quite different in real world. I can only tell you there are machine with human sorting out these waste. But not everything are recyclable and as effiecent. Waste in Singapore are generally still not properly sorted out and that make life difficult at the other end. Our waste are also wet.
Remember those days where we have 3 bins? Now you see a single bins for all recyclable waste. Why? We are doing our best but we are still far behind compared to Japan, Taiwan or even Hong Kong. This is a fact.
Remember those days where we have 3 bins? Now you see a single bins for all recyclable waste. Why? We are doing our best but we are still far behind compared to Japan, Taiwan or even Hong Kong. This is a fact.
