This concept looks nice on paper but can we
really achieve it? Not unless people here change their consumption habits and
alter their lifestyles to follow 5R disciplines.
Big Bro said we should be grateful to live in a cosmopolitan city. In reality, it’s a city with a ‘rojak’ population with people so diverse in background, culture and a different mindset of its own. To make everyone think and behave alike is akin to making the female pig climb a tree. Just look at our ‘return your tray campaigns’ at our hawker centers and public eating places. After more than 30 years of efforts and yearly campaigning, little progress has been made. It’s still a messy sight everywhere.
Big Bro said we should be grateful to live in a cosmopolitan city. In reality, it’s a city with a ‘rojak’ population with people so diverse in background, culture and a different mindset of its own. To make everyone think and behave alike is akin to making the female pig climb a tree. Just look at our ‘return your tray campaigns’ at our hawker centers and public eating places. After more than 30 years of efforts and yearly campaigning, little progress has been made. It’s still a messy sight everywhere.
To make this work, law and legislations
must be implemented with enforcement to make consumers pay for what they
dispose as wastes. It shouldn’t be a common flat-rate for waste disposal for
all households.
Unless & until consumers are made to
feel the pain, there would be no gain towards a zero waste nation. It’s just
another campaign for the year & to just look good on paper.
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