FROM Orchard Road to HDB estates, recycling bins seem to be everywhere, underlining the country's push for a greener city. But what some people throw into them is a different matter.

The Straits Times peeked into 80 recycling bins in public areas and found that all of them contained some rubbish that could not be recycled.

The 'foreign items' included decomposed chicken briyani, soggy tissue paper, prawn shells and chicken bones. There was even a used condom in a bin in Jalan Teck Whye.

Read the full report in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.