Falling Recycling rate in Singapore


How can recycling efforts help mitigate climate change?

Why has overall recycling rate fallen from 62 per cent in 2013 to 52 per cent in 2023?

Why is there a need to reduce the waste sent to the landfill each day by 30 per cent by 2030 under the Zero Waste Masterplan?

Read about the following initiatives in Singapore:

Abraclean, opened in 2023, is the first recycling plant in Singapore that can repurpose glass waste into an abrasive that removes unwanted coatings such as rust and paint from metal surfaces in industrial applications,

Recycling start-up Magorium was founded in 2019 to turn plastic waste into road construction material. The company has paved nine roads – including driveways at the DBS Newton Green building, a condominium in Marymount, and a road near the Sentosa Sensoryscape attraction – and converted close to 100 tonnes of plastic waste into NewBitumen.


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