Greener year
BYOC - that's bring your own container
After S'pore marked its Year Towards Zero Waste last year, more businesses seem aware of the pressure of consumption on the planet, and are taking steps to reduce waste.
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The number of plastic containers left after all the cookies are eaten each Chinese New Year so frustrated Ms Coco Oan, 21, that she decided to do something about it.
In late 2016, she started collecting containers to donate to people, such as bakers. The Yale-NUS undergraduate collected about 660 containers the first year.
