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Just 4% of Singapore's plastic waste recycled last year
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<p>Used plastics that have been made into bales for onward recycling. About 40 per cent to 50 per cent of waste at the facility is contaminated or not recyclable – for example, with people dumping rotting food waste onto clean paper and plastic.</p>
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Vanessa Liu
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Singaporeans may be increasingly aware of the risk plastic poses to the environment, but the rate of recycling here remains strikingly low.
A whopping 949,300 tonnes of plastic waste was thrown out here last year, yet only 40,700 tonnes - or 4 per cent - was recycled, notes the National Environment Agency (NEA).
