Just see how much waste is produced each day
• ROTF1NG fruit skins, crushed beer cans and cassette tapes were among the rubbish found at the main entrance of Tangs department store yesterday.
No, the sweepers did not forget to clean up. The rubbish was contained in a see-through tower of garbage created by Jalan Hljau, an environmental group of The Nature Society, to educate passers-by about the increasing amount of rubbish that Is being thrown away.
Each person throws away an average of 1.02 kg of rubbish daily, said the group’s founder, Mrs Cynthia Wee-Hoefer.
The display, which is open from 11 am to 8 pm until tomorrow, attracted many curious stares. Said systems analyst Ivan Chan: "I don’t think it’s a disgusting display. It’s more disgusting to be wasteful and throw away so much trash."
Source : The Straits Times 23rd Apr 1993
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