Plastic Bag Waste In Singapore

The singapore environment council is advocating for less plastic bag waste in singapore through the release of their latest research on consumer behaviour and attitudes complete with a set of policy recommendations.

Plastic bag waste in singapore. It is a positive step in singapore s journey towards becoming a zero waste nation and to prolong the lifespan of semakau landfill beyond 2035. Understand the plastic waste situation in singapore 3. Of the total figure local exporters sent 37 851 tons of plastic abroad while only 2 849 tons were processed in singapore. Keppel corporation by elga reyes.

Over there it is also illegal in general to import produce use or sell plastic bags and plastic packaging. Calls from civic society groups to tax plastic bags which make up one fifth of singapore s plastic waste have long been rejected by the government retailers and some consumers who argue that singapore citizens living in high rise buildings need plastic bags to hygienically dispose of their wet waste down garbage chutes. If each person in singapore uses 1 6 plastic bags a day the country would guzzle enough petroleum in a year to drive 8 555 cars round the world. Other categories of waste where less than 20 was recycled in singapore.

94 per cent of plastic waste was. Develop an appreciation of singapore s waste management strategies 2. The study also reiterated the results of sec s 2013 plastic bag study when evaluating the after use patterns of plastic bags. In october 2018 ng asked parliament to charge for plastic bags pointing to how when local retailer miniso started charging 10 cents for a plastic bag in 2017 usage plunged by 75 per cent.

Singapore in rwanda being caught with a plastic bag is a crime. Waste generated by the non domestic and domestic sectors both saw a reduction in 2019 from 5 70 million tonnes and 2 00 million tonnes respectively in 2018 to 5 37 million tonnes and 1 87 million. Plastic waste is also the most common type of waste disposed at the incineration plants in singapore followed by food waste and paper. According to zero wast sg about 30 70 of plastics waste disposed in singapore are single use plastic disposables such as plastic takeaway containers and cups plastic utensils plastic bags and plastic bottles.

A high percentage of respondents 67 indicated that bagging and disposing of general waste in a plastic bag is the most likely after use pattern.