Recycling Bins Contaminated by Food Waste

Here's an article from "The Straits Times" on Friday 20 May 2016. It's about how about 35% of the recycled material collected from housing estate recycling bins in Singapore has to be discarded because it's contaminated by food waste.

So don't throw stuff like sweet wrappers or containers that have food material inside into recycling bins.

Some other stuff that we shouldn't be placed in the recycling bins around our housing estates are:
- mechanical pencils
- shoes
- tissue paper
- styrofoam disposable plastic cups and containers
- window class
- cassette tpes
- ceramic and porcelain items
- light bulbs, fluorescent lamps
- electronic waste (computers and home applicances)

Let's all do our part to increase the percentage of items that can be recycled.