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Waste management in Singapore

Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste product may become a by-product, joint product or resource through an invention that raises a waste product's value above zero.
Examples include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardous waste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others.

Waste can be classified into five types of waste which is all commonly found around the house. These include liquid waste, solid rubbish, organic waste, recyclable rubbish and hazardous waste. Make sure that you segregate your waste into these different types to ensure proper waste removal

In Singapore, over 7.2 million tonnes of solid waste was generated in 2019 and of that amount, 2.95 million tonnes couldn’t be recycled! That’s a lot of waste that has to be managed and disposed of carefully and efficiently.
Waste management is part of our everyday lives and is one of the biggest growing challenges we face as a nation that is getting more serious with each passing year!

In Singapore alone, about 930 million kg of plastic waste is discarded every year with 96% of them being non-recyclable and having to be disposed of. That means it is likely almost all of your plastic bags, bottles and containers will become plastic waste that will affect the environment even if they are dealt with properly.

Leaching harmful chemicals into groundwater when buried deep in landfills
Harming and injuring marine animals ingesting the plastic debris should it reach the oceans
Releasing toxic pollutants and greenhouse gases when incinerated in ‘waste-to-energy’ plants.

Waste management in Singapore is handled by the National Environment Agency (NEA), which is in charge of handling the waste management system for our general and hazardous waste. Let’s dive deep into how our waste is managed and how complex it can really get.

In 2018, over a third of the 1.6 million tonnes of domestic waste from our homes were made up of packaging – that includes all our plastic bottles, milk cartons, paper bags, egg trays and metal cans. One of the biggest culprits of packaging waste is the single-use packaging containers such as single-serving yoghurts, orange juice and soft-drink bottles. These containers, unfortunately, cannot be recycled as they are contained with food.

While we were constantly told to finish our food as we are growing up, food waste is one of the biggest sources of waste in Singapore and has grown by 30% over the last 10 years! In 2019, over 744,000 tonnes of food waste was generated with over 80% being disposed of.
Some of these food waste are unavoidable – such as eggshells, crab shells, fish and chicken bones, there is actually a big portion of food waste that can be prevented. These include food that expired, fruits and vegetables that get spoiled from improper storage and leftovers from a big meal that turns stale.

From your old mobile phone to that 10-year-old broken laptop and television, e-waste is one type of waste that is growing as we become more affluent and technology keeps progressing faster and new gadgets keep coming out.
Singapore produces on average 60,000 tonnes of e-waste every year with less than 6% of it being recycled. The challenge with e-waste is the presence of harmful chemicals such as cadmium, lead and other heavy metals that could affect human health and the environment if they aren’t disposed of properly.
Electronic waste is one of the least recycled types of waste in Singapore with only one in 10 young Singaporeans actively recycling them and over a third of which are doing it wrong!

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