More facilities in S’pore to reprocess paper, textiles could boost recycling rate: Industry insiders

Lower recycling rates were due to higher freight costs post-pandemic, said NEA. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Similarly, textile and leather waste totalled five tonnes in 2022, lower than the seven tonnes recycled in the year before.

“Recycling textiles, from fibre to fibre, can only happen with 100 per cent cotton and in large volumes. It now has over 300 bins across Singapore and collects each week about 30 tonnes of clothes, bags, shoes, accessories, belts, caps and hats, toys, pillows, and clean household linens. Mr Dale Warren, CEO of Life Line, said the recovery facility in Klang has processed almost 50 tonnes of clothes from Singapore that Coop has sent over in a textile recovery facility of 120,000 sq ft.Smart recycling boxes that reward residents for sorting waste have cut contamination rate

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