The household recycling rate in 2023 stagnated at its lowest point in over a decade, with just 12 per cent of all rubbish thrown out recycled – the same as in 2022. The low recycling rate in 2023 comes even as households threw out less waste that year. In 2023, each...
The amount of domestic waste produced per capita has decreased by more than 15 per cent over the past decade.The household recycling rate in 2023 stagnated at its lowest point in over a decade, with just 12 per cent of all rubbish thrown out recycled – the same as in 2022.
The National Environment Agency revealed the waste statistics for 2023 on June 19, on the sidelines of the CleanEnviro Summit Singapore sustainability conference. Contamination remains a major challenge for domestic recycling in Singapore. When non-recyclables such as food are thrown into the commingled recycling bins, they contaminate the lot, which must be thrown out. The NEA estimates the contamination rate of domestic recyclables to be about 40 per cent.
Domestic waste refers to waste generated from households, shophouses, petrol stations, hawker centres, educational institutions and places of worship. The non-domestic sector includes commercial and industrial premises. But the overall recycling rate – which includes figures from both domestic and non-domestic sectors – in 2023 was 52 per cent. This is down from the 57 per cent overall domestic recycling rate in 2022.
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY WASTE MANAGEMENT MINISTRY OF SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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