‘Calamity may come’ if Singapore doesn’t take care of its coastlines now: Masagos Zulkifli
The Minister for the Environment and Water Resources also shared more on the citizens’ workgroup, saying one problem it will look at is how to increase the recyclability of items in neighbourhood blue bins.
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Danny Lum
Mr Masagos spoke about Singapore’s first Zero Waste Masterplan and how its focus on food waste, packaging waste and electronic waste is aimed at moving back to a circular economic system.
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Posted on:- 19 Aug 2019 06:51PM (Updated: 19 Aug 2019 11:35PM)
Danny Lum
(1) Coming back to the plastic bag problem, there could be more innovative and creative ways to recycle the plastic waste, food waste and solid waste.
(2) We could look at recycling and resused in the following light :-
a. Home waste are transported into a large sorter machines.
b. The sorter machines with sensors, IoTs, robotic arms and AI (multi-disciplinary R&D) - can cut plastic bags holding the food waste and other solid waste and pour them out into the sorter machines.
c. Plastic bags (dual used - for shopping and wrapping food waste at home) - can be lifted into a cleaning machine to wash and clean them - before using chemicals to treat and dissolve the plastic bags into fossil fuel and not incinerated.
This treated fossil fuel - can then be use as fuel to generate energy and electricity.
d. Food waste sorted out - can be channel into machine that can turn them into compost materials.
This compost materials can be used as fertiliser, animal feeds or input to generate energy.
e. Paper waste waste sorted out - can be produced into "recycled paper" for reused.
f. Aluminium can or metal parts sorted out - can be recycled back into aluminium and metals etc
g. This should be a happy news for environmentalists - as we can achieve the objective of "zero waste" due to "hi-tech recycling technology" --- if we tap our R&D Labs such as NUS, NTU, A*Star etc with multi-disciplinary skills - such as chemist, Computer Science, AI, robotics, IoTs, sensors, mechanical, electrical and electronics engineering, environmental engineering etc.
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Posted on:- 19 Aug 2019 06:51PM (Updated: 19 Aug 2019 11:35PM)
Danny Lum
(1) Coming back to the plastic bag problem, there could be more innovative and creative ways to recycle the plastic waste, food waste and solid waste.
(2) We could look at recycling and resused in the following light :-
a. Home waste are transported into a large sorter machines.
b. The sorter machines with sensors, IoTs, robotic arms and AI (multi-disciplinary R&D) - can cut plastic bags holding the food waste and other solid waste and pour them out into the sorter machines.
c. Plastic bags (dual used - for shopping and wrapping food waste at home) - can be lifted into a cleaning machine to wash and clean them - before using chemicals to treat and dissolve the plastic bags into fossil fuel and not incinerated.
This treated fossil fuel - can then be use as fuel to generate energy and electricity.
d. Food waste sorted out - can be channel into machine that can turn them into compost materials.
This compost materials can be used as fertiliser, animal feeds or input to generate energy.
e. Paper waste waste sorted out - can be produced into "recycled paper" for reused.
f. Aluminium can or metal parts sorted out - can be recycled back into aluminium and metals etc
g. This should be a happy news for environmentalists - as we can achieve the objective of "zero waste" due to "hi-tech recycling technology" --- if we tap our R&D Labs such as NUS, NTU, A*Star etc with multi-disciplinary skills - such as chemist, Computer Science, AI, robotics, IoTs, sensors, mechanical, electrical and electronics engineering, environmental engineering etc.
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Peter Goh
Govt willing to do more by encouraging more green vehicles? Be it public transport or individual transport and car?? I personally feel that more can be done on the automobiles side to help on emissions but will impact petrol sales inevitably on Govt tax income as well
Pek Chee Yong
Fear mongering can take many forms.
The identifying pattern is : there is a problem and you must listen to me to solve it.
Especially when they are not the subject matter experts.
Especially when they made no mentioned of it previously.
Even if it's a valid concern. Are they the best persons to drive it?
If anything, that this initiative is driven by politicians and not scientists, is telling that something is wrong with our democracy; that something is wrong with our meritocracy.
We are characteristically more akin to a monarchy in this regard. And fear mongering is a staple in a particular type of monarchy.
And,
Fear mongering can take many forms.
The identifying pattern is : there is a problem and you must listen to me to solve it.
Especially when they are not the subject matter experts.
Especially when they made no mentioned of it previously.
Even if it's a valid concern. Are they the best persons to drive it?
If anything, that this initiative is driven by politicians and not scientists, is telling that something is wrong with our democracy; that something is wrong with our meritocracy.
We are characteristically more akin to a monarchy in this regard. And fear mongering is a staple in a particular type of monarchy.
And,
Fear mongering can take many forms.
Weng Cheong Lee
It is good that the government takes care of Singapore by spending $billions. But do not neglect the people of Singapore. They are above everything else. Do not lose your ways and leave your Singaporeans behind. They are in dire need of financial help and jobs. The pathetic GST voucher and Utility rebates, medisave top ups does not help
Ong Ch
Half baked implementation will not work, just putting a few bins here and thereme and expect people to autopilot, difficult la.
The most pragmatic way is where economic benefit can be derived from waste. An economy of waste ecosystem where there is profit and cents from recycling of waste.
People can be employed to enforce proper disposal, in an ideal scenario, waste should be charge according to how much one dispose and recycle.
The most pragmatic way is where economic benefit can be derived from waste. An economy of waste ecosystem where there is profit and cents from recycling of waste.
People can be employed to enforce proper disposal, in an ideal scenario, waste should be charge according to how much one dispose and recycle.
Foong Mun Loh
Puki And Pundek trying to distract DUMB Sinkies again from bread-and-butter issues............even if S'pore were to disappear - won't make a dent in anything
Valen Chen Tany
While I laud the govt efforts to introduce measures to both mitigate and anticipate the effects of climate change, it must be aware that this is a global issue and even if Singapore intend to play our part in combating climate change, its success is still incumbent on a combined global efforts to tackle the issue. It's fruitless to secure our own success while the rests of the world fail.
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