Packaging waste requirements to apply across businesses

Singapore

PICTURE this: 3,000 Olympic-size swimming pools filled with domestic waste, a third of which is packaging waste.

The National Environment Agency (NEA), its eye firmly on this mountain of domestic trash disposed of in Singapore last year - 1.73 million tonnes and likely to grow - is determined to reduce it by introducing mandatory requirements for packaging-waste management for Singapore businesses in the next three to five years.

Details of the initiative have not yet been made available, but Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli said on Tuesday that the push is to reduce packaging waste at source. He was speaking at a presentation ceremony for the 3R Awards 2016, which took…