Survey 1 – Recycling Start At Home (57 responses)
1) 98.2% of people believe recycling plays a major part in saving the environment.
2) 100% think that recycling is necessary.
3) When asked if recycling will benefit Singapore on the whole in the future, and how it would do so, the
responses were generally:
- Reduce energy consumption
- Build a sustainable future
- Reduce land wastage for landfills
- Reduce volume of waste produced
- Generate new business opportunities
- Cut down on Waste Management Costs
- Inculcate good practices
- Reduce our Carbon Footprint
- Highlights the wasteful side of Consumerism, especially in Singapore
4) 40.4% of people recycle ONCE A WEEK, 22.8% recycle EVERYDAY, 17.5% ONCE A MONTH, 14% NEVER.
5) 54.4% of people NEVER sort their rubbish into glass, paper, plastics and cans, 17.5% ONCE A WEEK, 12.3%
ONCE A MONTH.
6) How well is recycling promoted in your estate?
Not at
Seldom
all
Promoted
17.9
Often
Promoted
62.5
Well
Promoted
14.3
Very Well Promoted
3.6
1.8
7) Changes that would make your estate begin actively recycling:
- Reward or rebate recycling; Incentives
- More recycling bins
- Volunteers to go around sharing the message
- Having more bins for different materials, and clearing them often
- Posters over the communal recycling bins
- Educate the public/more campaigns
- Place the recycling bins nearer to homes
- Design the rubbish chutes to have recyclable ones as well
- Promoting in different languages for a multi-lingual society
- A vending machine that takes in empty cans, and rebates 5cents
Survey 2 – Let us improve our recycling efforts! (50 responses)
1) 100% said they would recycle if it was made more convenient for them.
2) 94% said they would you actively sort their garbage if there were 4 different chutes for different materials
i.e. Paper, Plastic & Glass, Aluminium Cans, General Waste.
3) To what extent would it be more of an incentive if these additional chutes were PEST-FREE?
Not an
An Average
A Good
A Very Good
incentive
A small Incentive Incentive
Incentive
Incentive
2
6
4
30
58
4) To what extent would it be more of an incentive if these additional chutes were ODOURLESS?
Not an
An Average
A Good
A Very Good
incentive
A small Incentive Incentive
Incentive
Incentive
2
4
2
32
60
5) To what extent would it be more of an incentive if these additional chutes are installed on every floor of a
HDB block?
Not an
An Average
A Good
A Very Good
incentive
A small Incentive Incentive
Incentive
Incentive
2
4
4
26
64
6) If this chute system were to be implemented, how often would you recycle now?
86% said EVERYDAY, 12% said ONCE A WEEK.