More checks against littering needed

RECENTLY, I was at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and Chek Jawa in Pulau Ubin. At both sites, I saw a lot of litter among the mangroves, such as plastic bottles and food wrappers.

I exercise at the Tampines Central Park almost five days a week and the litter there is equally bad, especially on a Sunday or the morning after a public holiday. Many young people spend the night in the park and litter everywhere, even though there is a rubbish bin nearby.

Last Saturday, a football tournament was held at the park and the next morning, the area was full of litter.

It is not just the young who are littering, the adults are doing the same. Drink cans and cups are left on the carpark staircase railing and used parking coupons thrown on the ground.

At the letter boxes underneath HDB flats, adults do not even bother to throw unwanted fliers and brochures into the bins provided.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) should employ more part-time officers during weekends to help arrest this littering problem. They should patrol areas where there are public events taking place.

What NEA is doing now is not enough. We need more manpower to stop all these litterbugs.

Philip Foong

the Bear

1 Jul 10, 14:14

what they need to do is to punish the parents of the perpetrators for not bringing them up right

Clivebenss

2 Jul 10, 00:57

If they got cane like vandalism.

Itedino

2 Jul 10, 01:01

$_$ Currently Garment will punish all litter bug to SGD 300.

And will increase as follows:

SGD 300 will increase to SGD 1000

Caning of from 3 strokes and not more than 5 strokes

Or both.

Clivebenss

2 Jul 10, 11:25

Jul 2, 2010 - ST Forum

Littering penalties apply to all

WE THANK Ms Deborah Desloge Fordyce for her letter last Saturday ('Puzzling penalties against foreign workers'). Singaporeans and foreigners caught littering are subject to fines and Corrective Work Orders regardless of their employment status.

S. Satish Appoo
Director
Environmental Health Department
National Environment Agency

Clivebenss

2 Jul 10, 15:09

Doubt if any enforcements during weekends at those foreign workers hangouts, so much litter all over.

the Bear

2 Jul 10, 15:13

i think maybe the NEA fellas are scared of being beaten up

Clivebenss

2 Jul 10, 15:19

Originally posted by the Bear:

i think maybe the NEA fellas are scared of being beaten up

police might be better option, those neat VSC.

the Bear

2 Jul 10, 15:25

Originally posted by Clivebenss:

police might be better option, those neat VSC.

they're too busy trying to catch slashers...

Clivebenss

2 Jul 10, 15:33

Originally posted by the Bear:

they're too busy trying to catch slashers...

Clivebenss

3 Jul 10, 14:08

more foreign trash.