Going green, hopefully
It’s great to see the Colex company placing recycling bins in neighbourhoods, and even greater to see that on most days I pass by, the bins filled to the brim.
I think people closer to my age remember those HUGE recycling bins in MRT stations that were flops because they either filled with rainwater, vandalised or the wrong types of waste in the wrong bins, and they were just too far from most people’s houses for them to lug their waste all the way. Then they took it away (of course, "they" being those who do such stuff like upgrading lifts and renovating side walks). And we were left with no where to recycle except the karang guni man who only collected the stuff that can earn him money, which means thousands of glass and plastic bottles going down the drain, or, well, chute.
Then there was one time some smart alec from NUS who, sponsored by some smart alec rich company, made one of those jackpot machines where you pop in a drink can and the machine randomly gives you a price that most of the time said "Sorry please try again". Nice idea, until people started picking up drink cans for that sole purpose of hitting the jackpot and of course, like all fun gadgets like that, the novelty wears off and these machines joined the Tamgochis in "Novelty Products of Yore Heaven". That, and the public went away still not the least bit educated about the virtues of recycling.
All these while The Body Shop offered a $1 discount for bottles that you return to be refilled, and also being only place in town that actually collect back used bottles, but only their own.
So now that Colex had given neighbourhoods nice recycling bins in the vicinity, there is now absolutely no excuses for anyone not to separate their rubbish into paper/plastic and glass/aluminium cans or to sell those you can to the karang guni man. Also be conscious of the amount of plastic bags and packaging used, so as to reduce the amount of wastage as far as possible.
Thank you.
