Even if you recycle your glass, paper or plastic, it may end up in a landfill because of structural and cost issues, say our guests on this week's Deep Dive podcast.
Even if you recycle your glass, paper or plastic, it may end up in a landfill because of structural and cost issues, say our guests on this week's Deep Dive podcast.
Steven Chia and Crispina Robert get answers from Professor Tong Yen Wah from the National University of Singapore and Tan Huileng, executive director of Zero Waste SG.19:43 Meeting the 2030 goal is possible I think it's more “How can we for sure say that when we put something into the bin, or when we send something for recycling, it really gets recycled.”Yes, that is one. The second one is that the bins that they see are so messy sometimes. It looks like the general trash bins. And they are like, “Hey ... are my things really being recycled, or is it just going to be thrown away?"Exactly. We have to really understand the infrastructure.
In fact, 40 per cent is contaminated. That sounds like quite a lot. So why is it that Korea, Japan, Taiwan, can nick this contamination problem, but we can't? critical part for those countries is that their waste are being sorted by the general public, so they don't have a general recycling bin where you put everything in - co-mingled recycling.
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