Recycling in Singapore.

• Main Author: Ge, Xiao Min.
• Other Authors: Sulfikar Amir
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48261
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the context of consumption saturated societies, recycling is gradually seen as a sustainable solution to this social phenomenon. Geographically determined with limited land area, Singapore is vulnerable to possible environmental hazards, one of which is exceed municipal waste. Positioned itself as a regional economic hub, waste overspill has been taken seriously be the local government as a high risk environmental threat. Despite ardent recycling effects through the National Recycling Program, amount of general waste continue to rise annual. In this study, a sociological imaging is undertaken in evaluating some of the constraining and contributing factors towards recycling practices in Singapore.