It was important to do a follow-up or debrief for all activities.The above photos shown after National day Celebration held at my estate. The photos were taken on 10 Aug after the cleaning up. The stage has gone, however, I was shocked to see our garden city in that kind of conditions.
How to keep Singapore clean? I do not have the answer. The organising committee should brainstorm to come up with some ideas and suggestions!
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The organising committee can brainstorm for ideas until 'the cows come home', but can they change the mindsets of the people? Do not forget the campaigns to'keep Singapore clean', 'litter free' and so forth, have been in existence for years, any positive results? - answer no. I gave a suggestion to the feedback
unit to try out those effective ways employed by a certain country to overcome this littering problem, and the relevant department replied that it is not necessary to follow that particular country, because they have the confidence that through public education they will be able to solve this problem. So let us wait and see whether the 'cows finally come home' or absconded on the way.
Dear Zen,
Thanks for the comments.
One country I came across is Japan. They do not have this problem. Everyone bring home their rubbish.
The question is how did they do it? I do not have solution.
Regards
pehsk
Pehsk - I truly believe that unless the people change their mindset this littering problem won't go away. I remember talking to a very educated guy on this topic and do you know what he said? He retorted that if we do not litter, then all those sweepers would be out of jobs! which means that he indirectly supports littering! For an educated person to make such a statement is indeed atrocious. Now coming back to the Japanese for not providing litter bins in the public, with the Taiwanese following suit, what will happen to Singapore if litter bins are not provided in public? You can be sure that more rubbish would be dumped all over the place. So we cannot jump the gun by doing away the litter bins when the
littering problem still remains unsolved.
Here's how the Japanese do it.
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