Typical Saturday for us….
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Some people say Singapore is a litter-free country. What you probably didn’t know, is that the tiny country produces a whopping 7000 tons of garbage a day – 94 percent of which is vaporized in the incinerator, while the remaining 6 percent of ash is buried. @However, the last landfill on the crowded main island was filled up in 1999. Since then, Singapore has been taking its trash out to sea, to the world’s first offshore landfill, on the small, but ever growing, island of Sumakau. In the latest of our series of reports on sustainable development in Singapore, we went to investigate how the government is reducing the environmental impact of the landfill. ( 7100 tons of trash a day ) Singapore is booming and its population is approaching 5 million people. The flip side of development is the 7100 tons of rubbish it produces every day. ( Waste ash sent to island landfill ) The largest incinerator receives 3000 tons a day, which is reduced to 700 tons of ash, 20 percent of the original mass, and 10 percent of the volume. The ash is then loaded onto ships and sailed to the largest offshore landfill in the world. ( Sumakau lagoon filled with waste ) The Sumakau landfill is surrounded by 4-mile long barrier, creating a huge lagoon, which is further split into 11 sections. The seawater is then drained to make way for the ash. ( Sumakau Landfill manager, Ong Chong Peng ) ” Before we use it, we seal the pipe, and see how much water is left. Most of the time, we don’t need to pump …