Incentives to Promote Recycling
By The Straits Times Households will be encouraged to recycle more through incentives given by waste-collection companies. The requirement to provide incentives, starting from July, will be stipulated when public waste collection contracts with companies are renewed. Environment and Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim announced the incentive requirement when he spoke yesterday during the debate on his ministry's budget, which was approved. He was responding to Dr Lim Wee Kiak (Sembawang GRC), who had asked about the efforts being made by the ministry to boost household recycling. A pilot project by waste collection firm Veolia involving some 6,000 landed homes in the Tanglin-Bukit Merah area will start next month. Their bins for recyclable material have been fitted with electronic tags. Click here to read the full story.
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