'I feel disgusted that I was led into thinking that I was doing my part for the environment but not only was I duped, the government was cheated, and the companies just say they don't know what happened and they did not authorise the farce...' one Singa...
"I feel disgusted that I was led into thinking that I was doing my part for the environment but not only was I duped, the government was cheated, and the companies just say they don't know what happened and they did not authorise the farce..." one Singaporean said.
SINGAPORE: A Feb 25 special report from Reuters has been making waves in the past few days, as it showed how old shoes that had been collected in Singapore to make playgrounds and running tracks ended up being sold in secondhand shops in Batam and other parts of Indonesia. On Monday , government agency Sport Singapore and multinational petrochemicals company Dow, who had led the recycling program that aimed at repurposing the shoes, apologized for a “lapse” that led to the shoes being sold overseas instead.
u/tolonglabang added on a r/askSingapore thread, “Greenwashing is a serious issue and all these corporations are simply going through the motion and trying to buy goodwill when they are doing the opposite.”
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