Pulau Semakau

Here Are Some Pictures Of Pulau Semakau

Some Useful Info

Solid Waste Collection

Singapore has always Generated alot of waste, even in the past and it demands a efficient system to manage the rubbish generated from out citizens. Over the years,our government has developed a excellent way to clean up waste, Resulting in Singapore having one of the best efficiency in refuse collection in the region

Singapore’s Schemes

Public Waste Collection Scheme

The scheme puts different pre-qualifies waste collection companies to provide refuse collection for singapore’s nine geographical sectors. The successful companies were allowed to serve their respective sectors for a period of 7 years. In Addition,they were also required to provided door-to-door collection of recycled materials under their sectors.

Singapore’s Waste Disposal System

NEA’s system composes of four incineration plants, Ulu Pandan, Tuas, Senoko, Tuas South and an offshore landfill named Pulau Semakau. In 2007, a staggering 2.57 million tonnes of waste were disposed. About 2.38 million were incinerated while the rest was landfilled.About 58% of the total waste came from residential premises,food centres and markets. Industrial premises contributed to the rest.

Waste Minimisation

It is not very healthy to our environment when we rely fully on incineration and landfills to solve our waste problems. Thus,we need to make sure that it is at a level in which we can control but at a reasonable cost with no threat to the public or within the assimilation capability of the environment,So, the waste minimization unit,set up in feb 1992 was created to minimize waste,it was followed by the 3Rs,Reduce,Reuse and Recycle and was known as the waste management hierarchy


What The Government Did
To encourage recycling, the government has planted recycling bins all over Singapore and passed recycling bags around, together with various talks and campaigns and all items collected will be send to a recycling plant to be processed into new items


Information From: http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/category_sub.asp?cid=75 http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/article.asp?pid=1460 http://www.crescent.edu.sg/pbl/2ksec2/2c3(2)/governmenthaddone.htm

Waste Management Project in Singapore

We are going to investigate what our government have done to manage waste in Singapore and the projects we would like to do to promote such awareness in our school.