Combatting Our Mountain Of Waste: Young Singaporeans Pave The Way | On The Red Dot | Full Episode

[@shuchanwong5054]

At the end of the day, it’s all about cost. If substitutes for plastics is cheaper, plastics will be eliminated.

[@SolidSonicTH]

This is honestly the problem across the board. Want less gas-consuming vehicles? Sell electric cars at the same price point instead of as a prestige item.

[@jk35260]

My family bring along our own spoons and chopsticks. It is not difficult to do that.

[@raulbhagchandani7823]

ok

[@kongthai..]

Use Bamboo spoons and chopsticks. Bamboo plantations are compact and is HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE. Don't be an EXTREMIST ACTIVIST. It is uneconomic. 😱

[@9804216]

I think it all starts with education at an early age and the government should introduce it as a curriculum in school. Locals need to get over the supposed inconvenience of carrying around reusable utensils, refillable bottles and recyclable bags. Most locals are already carrying bags when they go out so adding these items in and making it part of daily life is actually not difficult.

[@DHart293]

For someone driving a Tesla, doubt that they'd buy ugly fruits

[@deaths11]

12:32 the edible spoons were covered in aluminum foils while baking? so, in an attempt to reduce plastic waste, she ends up producing aluminum waste? anyway, reusable spoons sounds like a better idea though..

[@gyarados2908]

Cracked me up at "too small"! 🤣 Poor 🥒!

[@chweehar]

What about bringing your own cutlery set with you every time you eat out??

[@misssometing]

it''ll be a great first step into reducing unnecessary waste and being more earth-friendly. However, the convenience of disposables is really the main reason in why Singaporeans choose single-use utensils over reusables. We'll need to convince more to give up convenience to be more environmental-friendly.

[@MegaSportsluver]

@@misssometing Plus its not feasible/practical to not use disposables for food delivery either

[@rocketman3770]

this is a great cheap approach. Push for the Zojirushi titanium sporks! and maybe a portable bowl, plate. Have the government encourage shops to provide external sinks for patrons to wash, like what HK does to wash your hands outside the bathroom.

[@s._3560]

If you are eating at the hawker centre, most stalls are using melamine chopsticks or chinese spoons and metal spoons and forks. People who buy takeaway food back to their homes or offices should have a set of reusable cutlery and not require disposable.

[@jk35260]

That is what my family has been doing for years. Despite the call for Singaporean to reduce plastic waste, many have not taken the effort to do so. Hawkers and restaurants should really charge people for providing disposable cutlery. Government should ban them from providing free disposable to their patron.

[@lengng148]

Good Job on the documentary film, Germaine! Food is sacred and blessed from God. It should not be wasted. Take rice as an example. When I was a small boy, my mom who was born in China used to tell me how difficult & tiring it was to bend down planting the nursery rice plant on the rice pond/field for over 10 hours or more each day. So, from that day onwards, I Never leave a grain of rice on the plate to waste. I shared this story with my son what grandma went through in her poor days. He too, grew up with this mind set of not leaving any food to waste on his plate. So, it is the attitude and mind set of each person. Having lived oversea for many years now, I can see a lot of Singaporeans are so complacent and wasteful. Recycling program should start at home and in school. It is also an educational process for all ages. The HDB flat design has made it so convenient with the rubbish chute that most people just throw everything including recycling bottles and metal cans into this chute. Perhaps, separate green and blue recycling chutes should be incorporated into the design next to this rubbish chute. Then severe penalty for people with wrong attitude who don’t follow the rules imposed on them after the educational period or campaign. Look at the “Fine” method of keeping Singapore Clean so much so that China is copying this policy from us too. The famous saying goes, “No pain, No gain.” There are many ideas that I can go on but space is limited here.

[@RC-cf7yu]

I agree with you, as a farmer from The Philippines I know how hard it is to produce a bowl of rice from seedling sowing, transplanting, nurturing, harvesting, drying, milling. This is the result of Singaporeans not producing their own rice and other food. Its not because they have money ti buy food that they become wasteful.

[@Danderman888]

Why do we focus more on the downstream aspect of these disposable items, instead of addressing the origin of the problem? 1. Dispense with plastic packaging and replace them with reusables instead, e.g. personal reusable containers and utensils; 2. Change the dispensing of products while reducing intermediate containers, e.g. disposable bottles and bags; 3. Change habit instead of inventing new ways to recycle, e.g. plan how much you want to eat and avoid deliberate wastage by reducing variety just for pleasure instead of necessity... eat to live rather than live to eat; 4. Change our food source from the less efficient traditional types like factory farmed meats for farmed arthropods, which are basically pound for pound more efficient to produce and more concentrated in nutrient content... Our waste problem is not so much a matter of the potential intrinsic waste of each item as much as our reluctance to apply the most effective solution. It simply is because of our reluctance to forego what we are used to, as a result we try to find solutions that will be less demanding of change, even if the solution is not only less effective, but may spawn more problems further downstream.

[@EZJRVCXY]

Is she driving a tesla?

[@creatordisney3544]

yup

[@creatordisney3544]

Her Pink tesla looks beautiful haha

[@glennTUG]

Nice to have a new young face on these documentaries!

[@SuccessforLifester]

At fast food restaurants for example, you frequently see clean unused paper towels left behind. Seems like diners feel that they are too cool to take the paper towels for later use. But the cleaners will just throw it away when they clear the table.

[@Danderman888]

Like most of our attempts at social awareness for anything from recycling to our legal to our medical services, they focus on firefighting solution instead of getting to the real source of the problems. Why?

[@Bernardjytan]

I am baffled that someone threw a 3/4 filled coffee in. Anyway we can follow taiwan / korea rubbish disposal process for a start. Need to throw your own rubbish at level 1 designated area. That way people will think twice before using disposable stuff as no one wants to carry huge amount of rubbish down everyday.

[@rick-yo]

Great program! The recycled plastic pellets in the road seems like good idea but I would think that microplastics will be released with wear and tear and degradation and eventually make it into the ocean. What is being done to address this?

[@alimfuzzy]

They tried selling ugly fruits in Australia. You'd get a bag for the same price as a single fruit. It sold really well. Then they increased the prices of the bag and then no one bought them, then they stopped selling them altogether.

[@NinJa-vw1sr]

It's all about ways to make money out of stupid people. The problem is not many are stupid...

[@rocketman3770]

Germaine Tan is cute and smart lah. There are some great ideas here tho, but not sure if some are entirely scalable like the water bottle cleaner and separator. There may need to be more focus on packaging material, and strong change in culture. Like for instance, the edible spoons sounds great but looks like there are products being used to create it (aluminum foil, other waste) and resources consumed like electricity for the oven to bake. What if they get no traction and have short shelf life? At large scale production that waste may be minimized but small scale it seems like more harm than good.

[@richardhendricks8563]

worst reporter! bad delivery.

[@AlphGen]

Queensland is already using recycled plastics and rubber in road manufacturing

[@mariantia926]

Observe from Japan and Taiwan. If both countries can be better in managing waste and recycling and do so more effective than us, there must be something missing. All are humanity of this world.

[@zerowastehomestead2518]

The Singapore government can make it mandatory for all restaurants to provide reusable plates, spoons etc that can be washed (which will create jobs) and then used again. They also need to divert all food waste from restaurants, grocery stores etc to a composting facility. (and every other country in the world) Singaporean citizens can easily bring their own utensils when eating at the restaurants. :)

[@cvnikita1]

Excellent job! We can choose to carry utensils and food grade boxes. Instead of eating all those. Microplastics, and creating waste

[@vlado2701]

Thank You dear CNA for Your helpful information ! I'm confident that the people of Singapore will be able to solve this global problem ✓ * * * Special thanks for Your very important Mission !

[@emconsolacion7950]

People of the Philippines ,you have a template to follow

[@NinJa-vw1sr]

No

[@devilac69]

Just go back to our old system of using metal cutlery. It work for many many many years.

[@eu.p.5807]

Well, for start, supermarket should adopt bring your own container store concept.

[@anna_wong]

Another way is to encourage people to make their own edible spoon since most can bake, just make the ingredients and the mold available for sale. Diners can bring their own edible spoon out, don't even need to wash!

[@ratedchamp1]

Why not just see the metal spoon which you can reuse ?

[@sowtrue8827]

i know, ppl may take metal spoon home.

[@johcx1994]

Singaporean mindset: Out of sight, out of mind. So long as it doesnt look like what it is, I doubt they really care. So in a sense we are benefitting the producers of the transformed products. But whatever it is, we do what suits us.

[@loveydovey5698]

Waste isn't waste until it's wasted. Wellll except nuclear waste and unfortunately that's gonna end up wasting everything else. THE END!

[@rheagalsim7497]

Education by 'showing why' someone should buy instead of the inexpensive one.

[@chongwei2945]

lol imagine the rubbish bin with the camera got stolen

[@SolidSonicTH]

Aging has been a problem since...the first person went over 60 years.

[@shribhagwansharma4008]

Development could be measured with amount of waste generation. More develop means more waste generator

[@blackislander8658]

i have a question! why not feed the leftover food to animals, for instance stray dogs/even domestic dogs?

[@SuccessforLifester]

6:06 This video is brought to you by ASICS.

[@FirdausIsmail1]

the best thing to reduce waste is to produce less waste. Prepare your own food, bring your own cutlery, finish your food and to use less of single use plastics.

[@BenjaminLee2009]

If your meal is fish soup, using edible spoon first bite accidentally bite off part of the spoon, cannot hold soup anymore how you eat the fish soup?

[@ptvchannel5852]

Same here in Malaysia facing the same problem but worse still is that we miss the chance of having our hero Anwar Ibrahim as the 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia in 1996 because of one young ambitious Sports Minister bids for the 16th Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and the rest is history.. to know more about this never before analytic reporting please do press the orange button of PRIHATIN TV.. check it out..

[@MrGamer_jinjit_96]

Nas daily used to shared his perspective

[@starshar]

Do a documentary on biohazard or covid 19 waste in hospital

[@jasonlai1892]

Unhappy customers. Unhappy voters.

[@KennyTanCK]

NTUC Fairprice just needs to stop giving out plastic bags ($0.20 isn’t enough to stop rich Singaporeans) and not focus on business. Introduce priority “bring own bag” cashiers and allocate lesser/1 cashier that issue plastic bags. And for fruits, issue paper bags instead of the free flow plastic bags. Once Fairprice takes the lead, the rest will follow! Next the Government has to introduce programme that helps vendors switch to non-plastics wares e.g. let them enjoy better tax rebate when they use non-plastic wares. SG should stop the hypocrisy and really start caring for our planet.

[@michaeloliver2757]

Like in nature so many years ago, some of us were more fortunate than others. But at some point we all had to eat the undesirable stuff we came across. There are so many now that it's not possible for all of us. The bottom line is that we take the best we can get until we are full and leave the rest. This is not problem if we ALL turn our leftovers and unedabled food material over for another food chain to happily consume unwhitnly for our benefit. We need to feed our waste to the scavengers and either consume them or feed them or their byproducts to things we can eat. We need imitate and exploit the natural biologic processes to generate our food, clothing any numerous materials required to succeed without hurting our life or the other life's on this planet. We should take such an approach with all our activities! Our intelligence gives us the ability to minimize our negative impacts on All our activities.

[@omori3007]

Nah

[@kevinkai624]

The core of this issue does not lie with plastic material, it’s to do with people. Human enjoys convenience, we are going out to eat out of convenience, this is the reason why HDBs don’t design external chimney for kitchens. I do applaud those who bring their own utensils to eat out, this is the kindness I also lack in. The only solution is for government to set rules and give out subsidies to stores that does and does not use plastic materials. Because hardworking store owners have already bought them in bulks, what is the point of resisting now? Trends should be set from top to down, not the other way around, because there will always be people who goes against it and others will surely follow the easier way out.

[@TitoTimTravels]

When I first arrived in the Philippines I was surprised to see that fast food came on plastic plates, with metal fork & spoon. Now after 10 years here... I think more countries should be doing it. Why use plastic, just use real dishes. Plastic should only be for take-out.

[@wing702]

Pay special attention to the spoiled fruit, it's 'CARCINOGEN'!!! The idea is good! However, you must certainly select the fresh fruit only from the so called ugly fruit to make your juice.

[@cosmoray9750]

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[@Foxy11123]

The right things is stop using plastic... even u recyle let say u turn it to road... when it broke and mix into water is became micro plastic so is not way out it just make it more durable ...

[@MrBoliao98]

When I was in Germany in 2013, when you drink beer, they charge 5 euros, return cup get 2 euro back. Frankly we should be doing this for milk tea, will reduce a lot of waste.

[@s._3560]

2:59 Oh good grief, have separate bins for different recyclable material. One blue bin for all will definitely contaminate. It isn't always possible to wash out bottles or cans before recycling especially when one is outside. Besides, recycling plants definitely need to reclean those bottles before making them into usable products again. Instead of dustbin automatically washing bottles and cans why not just make retailers pay money back to people who return the bottles? Get central collection to wash them altogether ,that will be more efficient and watee saving than washing each bottle individually badly. Wasting precious water which SG doesn't have.

[@hungho7121]

Why dont you just try to eat all the food and what ever left save it for later.! I was in Singapore they didnt let me bring left over food home from restaurant that i bough.!

[@manofagoodwill656]

Can you please react to “The lady of heaven trailer?”❤️🙂

[@Sea-rx3bh]

Can I know your reaction?

[@jimmyoh1982]

Very good la, Recycle company.. Free rubbish for you some more want to clean for you too.. This world not many free lunch, you should understand what I mean..

[@净念]

I NEED TO TRY OUT THE SPOONS

[@adamgibson473]

Ugly fruits converts into good fertilizer. Not exactly a waste.

[@misssometing]

it becomes a waste when consumers reject the ugly fruits and ended up as trash. The mentality that ugly fruits are spoilt needs to change.

[@Sacrypheyes]

it is a waste considering the ressources used to produce it. it's like using bottled green tea (or any other drink you could probably think of) to flush your toilet : just because the waste will eventually be cleaned and purified at water treatment facilities doesn't change the fact that it's a waste to not drink the beverage in the first place.

[@vincenttan6303]

food waste is terrible... I always asked for half rice but most hawkers are deaf... gave me full

[@maypong2007]

We should be looking at zero waste than recycling

[@devilac69]

Recycling is important because in today's world it is impossible to not use plastic. Plastic is a good material but the world have been using it the wrong way. So today it is important to educated everyone about how to handle our own trash. Thereby enabling effective recycling.

[@MegaSportsluver]

@@devilac69 Wrong. Recycling is to make you feel better about consuming plastic. Because right now, virgin plastic is cheaper than recycled plastic and hence, theres no demand for it (besides maybe paving roads. BUT the amount of plastic waste far far outweighs whatever plastic we can turn into roads). Plus you claim that plastic has been used the "wrong" way. But your suggestion is on what should be done after it has been used.

[@conniehalili2300]

My family bring along our own spoons and chopsticks. It is not difficult to do that.

[@zollen123]

The challenge is lowering the cost enough of mass producing the edible cutleries to justify the adoption.

[@TWINideas]

Wow amazing driver

[@SKF358]

Why not just make the cutlery biodegradable, not necessarily edible?

[@jamesyue1348]

Talk so much, who gonna cover those cost and overheads? consumer? merchant ?

[@SGracesyaL]

Maybe don't call it as ugly fruit lah. Maybe can call it imperfect fruit?

[@TeamPhilippines]

Don't call ripe Fruits, Ugly.

[@privateeye7559]

remove all tables and chairs, fans. no need cleaners, nobody chope seats with tissues, nobody uses the dirty toilet. no more crow coming easy for everybody. nobody will clear your food when you have not even finish. Do take aways only.

[@weirdshit]

Remove all hawker foodstalls and restaurants. Problem solved.

[@jupiterlite2907]

I like the student used a tesla as a vehicle in this video

[@Foxy11123]

Also

[@C.u.d.s]

Tax. Plastics. Mandate. Market. Wastes.

[@NinJa-vw1sr]

Use more toilet paper and iPhone

[@kobadaa.952]

oh god. eating plastic :/

[@jamesyue1348]

my family bought our own cutlery, plates, bowl and food to the hawker centre. It is not difficult to do that. We can do our part to go green! :D

[@matreen427]

sounds like sarcasm

[@jamesyue1348]

@@matreen427 really lah... i won't hao siao you one ... i even bought my stove there also... in order to save the world ....

[@tlcroger]

such a cutie,

[@shukriramlee]

The "red dot" used to be an insult.

[@macaroon6561]

Typical Malaysian(s) like to insult Singapore. The more they insult the more pain they feel in their heart(s). And Singapore just ignore and strive to be better everyday.

[@shukriramlee]

@@macaroon6561 Joke of the day. Typical Malaysian don't even care about Singapore. Better? The special things about Singaporean is self-praised.

[@macaroon6561]

@@shukriramlee If don't care then don't bother to comment as such. Why bother? It is your mentality to think SGporeans are self praised whereas they work hard to survive.

[@shukriramlee]

@@macaroon6561 Everyone is working hard. It's sound really dumb if you said that only Singaporean is working hard.

[@macaroon6561]

@@shukriramlee ..but they work extra hard as they have no much resources unlike your country..

[@shaboysham6398]

wear jacket properly la... 😬

[@rusticbaguette]

it's too hot in Singapore to wear it properly. Needs some ventilation!

[@muhmuflih5549]

wow

[@visisakbonna1080]

First

[@finderkeeper836]

👏👏👏

[@denisechan5992]

Of course waste double, we double our population last ten years.

[@MegaSportsluver]

Really? Singapore's population was only 3 million in 2011? Lol

[@misssometing]

nah, our waste "growth" outweighs our population growth.

[@MegaSportsluver]

@@misssometing haha my reply was a /s

[@denisechan5992]

@@MegaSportsluver You notice, it should 2 decades same as the video which said the rubbish double two decade ago. By the way what is a/s

[@seantanmx]

Wat a Tesla at 7.59

[@hustlerosette]

Thank you for doing this ❤️

[@kinokunia]

stop saying ugly fruits, every fruit is beautiful and natural, unlike your make up.

[@vivianpham9675]

She said ugly fruits because that’s what it’s known as, maybe you should look it up before judging people.

[@kinokunia]

@@vivianpham9675 And it should not be called that #fruitlifematters

[@MegaSportsluver]

@@kinokunia What do people call these fruits when they consciously put it away at the supermarket rack then? "Oh, it's beautiful and natural"? /s

[@kinokunia]

​@@MegaSportsluver How about seasoned or advanced in years? You definitely should attend sensitivity class.

[@MegaSportsluver]

@@kinokunia Because thats not how the aunties in the supermarket call them as they toss it aside when they pick their veg and fruits?

[@owl77]

Don't left out fast food waste. All their packaging are disposable.