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Happy to launch two transparent recycling bin pilots at Hong Kah North last Sunday. Making recycling bins transparent was one of the suggestions by the #RecycleRight Citizens' Workgroup members in 2019 to improve the way households recycle.
The idea is that when people can see what is inside the bins, it will deter any improper use of the bin, and encourage them to only deposit recyclables into the bins. Besides testing if a transparent bin design can help to reduce the contamination rate, one of the pilots will also test whether segregated recyclables collection is more effective than co-mingled recyclables collection.
Our blue recycling bins face a high contamination rate. About 40% of the items inside the blue bins cannot be recycled because they are either non-recyclable items, or are recyclables which have been contaminated by food and liquid waste.
It is thus important to recycle right so that we don't undo the efforts of others who are doing their part for the environment. So before you recycle next time, remember to rinse and dry food and beverage containers, and fold up bulky cardboard boxes before depositing them into the blue bins!
