The Sunday Times had a serious article with unintentional hilarious snippets.
More enforcement officers deployed, littering increased by 101%.
Put up banners on the penalties of littering, littering increased by 105%
Put up environmental messages: littering increased by 61.5%.
They observed how often the bins spilled over - 22 times ;
they added more bins - the spillage stopped. Duh?
After a year of study, the results? "Inconclusive"
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The truth is that Singapore is kept tidy and clean not because most citizens do not litter but that the streets are swept and tidied by a huge battalion of foreign workers.
They are the unsung heroes of keeping Singapore clean and spotless.
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You can read the 179 page study here.
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Singaporeans in general are very tidy however I have noticed during my time here (I am an expat) that there are indeed some people appear almost deliberate in their littering - waiting for an appropriate point in time when no-one appears to be about before they commit the offence.
ReplyDeleteI often cite Bavaria in Southern Germany as being the only state to be cleaner than Singapore because it is self-policing. Should you ever litter whether by accident or on purpose in the vicinity of a normal citizen, they would not be backward in coming forward to you to rectify the situation, Singaporeans could be doing this too.