The Matcha Initiative
Join usUpstream:
It is interesting to train staff and start segregating bottles (plastic, aluminum cans...) as Singapore has a beverage bottle buyback system (Deposit Refund Scheme DRS - part of the Packaging EPR) coming live in 2022 and will build a bottle PET recycling plant for it.
Downstream:
3.40 billion
tonnes of global waste is expected annually by 2050. In comparison it is 2.01 billion tonnes per year today.
(The World Bank)
23%
% of global waste generated by ASEAN Region.
(The World Bank)
Learn more about the deposit refund scheme (DRS), which is part of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
For beverage containers, it is coming up in 2022.
Environmental services provider for public and private sectors in Singapore:
- waste management (residential, commercial and industrial waste collection & recycling)
- horticultural services (landscaping, grass cutting and tree pruning services for residential, commercial and institutional customers)
- cleaning & conservancy
They can customise waste pickup and recycling solutions.
SembWaste is the largest municipal waste collection company in Singapore, serving 5,000 industrial and commercial, government agencies and healthcare establishments daily and over 600,000 households, schools and trade premises.
They provide Collection and Post-collection Treatment for General Waste and Recyclables.
Sembcorp also operates a Waste-To-Energy plant to supply steam for the local industries in Jurong Island, Singapore.
