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More S'poreans willing to adopt clean and green practices: NEA survey

By Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia
Posted: 20 October 2009 1850 hrs

SINGAPORE: More Singaporeans are willing to adopt a clean and green lifestyle, according to a recent survey by the National Environment Agency (NEA).



Environmental ownership and awareness amongst Singaporeans is growing with some 87.2 per cent of the respondents saying that they would adopt more environmentally friendly practices, up from the 2007 survey of 85.5 per cent.

Some 1,546 respondents took part in the survey.

The upcoming Clean and Green Campaign to take place later this month will trace Singapore's environmental development from 1968.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will launch the campaign on October 30 at the HortPark.

NEA will also partner NParks, Youth Olympic Games 2010, and five Community Development Councils, to organise activities related to the campaign.

The campaign aims to get more Singaporeans to care for their environment, which took some 40 years to develop.

Andrew Ran, CEO, National Environment Agency, said: “Clean and Green Singapore is not about what the government can do for the environment. But what the people, the community can do for themselves in terms of upkeeping this clean and green environment.

“I think through simple measures that people can do, making sure you don't litter, or binning their litter, then you don't need NEA to step in with all the enforcement. People don't like to be fined, but if they have to be fined, then there's no choice.

“If you litter less then there's no need for us a regulator to come in. And here's where the need for the greater environmental ownership to come in. And I see this as a bigger challenge for Singapore itself. There is no point in having first world infrastructure but third world social habits.”

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...012567/1/.html

[invisg0th]

i would like to recycle more! but i find it very difficult to get recycling companies to come by my estate to pick it up

[faith14]

hmm. If singaporeans have more love for their homeland, they won't wanna litter, just like the way they take care of their homes. Unless they are not an organised person in the first place, then the campaign is necessary to instill the idea of being environmentally friendly. haha.

[Haley_s]

i would like to recycle



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[axio99]

well my fren and I will do housekeeping of our clothes at least once a year and bring them to our nearest Salvation Army

as for other types of recycling, our family bring them to the nearest collection centre which is a few blocks away and collect only once a month