How Singapore Handles Six Million Pounds of Trash Daily | WSJ A to B 

i feel like this industry is under appreciated, thank you to all workers. I always feel bad about my own waste, esp when people don't finish food.

Glad to see Singapore are using a variety of methods to handle waste. I think the glass that’s disposed could also be effectively recycled, but you would have to establish laws where all products that use glass jars or bottles can be exchanged for a monetary value when returning for recycling.

Living here for the past 5 years and it's just simply so clean, other than the occasional little litters, sg is really clean and the fact that they manage to keep it clean in such a dense and small nation is incredible to me

I'm from Singapore and I went for an exclusive tour to Semakau Landfill once (tours are probably unavailable or rare nowadays) I am very impressed with how the landfill island is slowly becoming greener like a park

Very interesting and in depth. Surprising how little acceptance waste to energy has in the US

As a singaporean, there’s a new initiative called NEWSand (similar naming to NEWater). It uses the ash for construction

Thank you WSJ. This shows what an advanced and respectable society Singapore is... a community based on education, science and ecological respect. These qualities lift an ethnicity up, rioting, looting, burning does not.

I love these types of videos (trash, laundry, kitchens, infrastructure, etc.)!

Singapore continues to impress me

I fully support this type of recycling.

We have a lot to learn from Singapore.

In 2005 as a Primary 1 Kid, I was told Semakau will fill up in 2040. Perhaps, back then our education on recycling was really bad, had we bothered to teach those children then, maybe now I might be more aware. Like maybe we need to look towards more composting for fruit and vegetable waste for a simple start, this is very easy to sort out and implement. Its amazing how we tried to stop plastic bags in 2007 and only today in 2023 when I'm this old do we have the will power to stop plastic bags. My mainpoint is this, we need better easy to implement recycling and waste reduction and teach it to the kids. Whatever we teach well or poorly, will be reflected 20 years later. You teach children during SARS how to wash their hands, in 2020 that 5 year old is 22 and can fall back on all the complicated steps how to wash hands.

This was great and informative. It seems like Singapore has their trash management skills at a high level and everything is very well thawed out. Hopefully the Ash can be used to build roads or something like houses

Waste to energy us the way. You reduce the amount of trash that goes to a landfill, and you also get energy

Well done Singapore. But let’s keep going better!

Amazing & informative, great to see next steps post garbage collection

I love this. It's awesome investment to the earth and Singapore .

Innovative and proactive.

This is a great initiative

i admire Singapore for utilizing even smallest opportunity to its max, while their neighbor with huge lands , Indonesia is destroying their own natural resources such as the forest in Kalimantan to mine coal, palm plantation in Sumatra etc

Just want to say thank you to everyone who does something good for the environment

Singapore is great nation and role model to the world

Unfortunately the nation still experiences difficulties in getting its citizens to adopt a recycling mindset and despite efforts, the results are abysmal.

I only came here to find out how 6 million ×365 = 16.3 billion. I left having learned that almost half of the 16.3 billion pounds of waste are put in a landfill, even though 55% is recycled, 42% is incinerated, with ashes and the other 3% put into the landfill. That is a lot of ash!

Very good video

Yes and Can generate Electricity too.

Wow I never thought Charlie’s energy saving tips for the bar would be applied for an entire country but… Always Sunny never disappoints.

Soon the world will follow Singapore’s solution to handle wastes.

Amazing

What other solution is there? It's a good plan, and technology is getting much better. If Singapore stays up to date, itbwill get cleaner, and cleaner, and more efficient. God job Singapore, your American friends salute you all!!

Bravo 👍❤️

There's no such thing as megawatts per hour. Megawatts is already joules per hour. Or did you mean megawatt-hours per hour, which is just megawatts?

This serves as good PR for Singapore as well as highlighting important waste management strategies.

Since Singapore is already reclaiming land in the sea, could this ash be used to fill those projects? This seems like an endless supply of land for Singapore, unless the ash is somehow uniquely unsuited to the task.

very interesting

Even the landfill is clean, dam Singapore.

Singapore can build a manmade reclaimed land on the top of landfill. They can have more affordable and floating houses.

Put temp units in C as well

Ontario looked at this and found that emissions included dioxins and furans. These msy not sll be particulate at these temperatures but either way they up in the envitonment

WOW this amazing no let noting die for noting meak power

Waste to energy is the best option for residual waste and new plants emmit next to no pollutants

odd to add hard subtitles

I got do this job before as the former civil servant, under the National Environment Agency is a statutory board under the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment for the Caretaker of Singapura.

its literately that scene from toy story 3

Haiti needs to invest in something like this

❤. Managing wastes.

There is very little recycling in Singapore mainly due to the design of rubbish shutes in appartments and peoples lack of recycling habits

This proves waste to energy can be an effective measure to achieve our goal of making the planet healthier. I'm sure some of the Environmentalist as myself will be able to figure out the process of recycling and reusing the ashes as well. The future seems clean and green.

Sadly lots of countries struggle to make WTE since its a non profitable business

Well done Singapore.

"Megawatts per hour" is a nonsensical term, just like horsepower per hour. It's just megawatts. Imagine hearing the Wall Street Journal taking about gasoline car fuel efficiency and saying miles per gallon per hour.

Any trash that is biodegradable is good including us! We just need to focus more on rest.

My question is why don't big waste management share their solutions to other countries. I been to some country to visit and I see garage every where water pollution

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Most shocking of all, this rich high-consumption city generates just one pound of solid waste per person per day.🤯 US 4.9, Canada 4.1, Germany 3.8 😮 (Are vastly different measuring protocols used?🤔)

Naaah indo ga usah export pasir ke singapore, export yg ada di bantar gebang aja, sama aja kan bisa jadi ash untuk new land 😊

Man, didn’t realise they have lizard/monitor there 3:45

What fuel is used to burn the garage???

Singapore is getting sugar honey ice tea together 👍

16.3 billion pounds.. wow.. as comparison, my motorbike only weighs around 6400 ounces

6:08 Megawatts per hour? Thats a nonsensical statement... either "megawatt-hours per hour" or just "megawatts" is corect

The Claw...

However, very few citizens are actively practicing recycling like many countries.

For the sake of non-American viewers, give the metric system equivalents of measurements.

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And all that ash be turned into flash graphing for construction or other products.

Impermeable membrane eh? Heard that before.

cement?

how? sending them to africa or india or some down mariana trench

That person at 3:52 speaks perfect English, so why do they need subtitles?

Off topic but I just released that Singaporeans sound west African when they speak English

Why don't they dig up the old landfill and start burning that to make space.

At First it was looking like a British Queens Crown😅

Can they not use the ash they produce as an additive to cement?

I thought it's gold and diamond 😅

140 megawatts for 2,40,000 houses, every house stands at 500 watts only?

Denmark will take it we use it for energy

By 3050, they mind end up with one more island to be called Singapore 2.0 made up of ashes 😄

i think they should take all those ashes to Africa as landfill it will be cheap and better

Why are there English subtitles? He is speaking English.

they put the rubbish (non-reuseable) in the downside, then on the top side they they put soil then to cover it they planted it with mangrove, they call this save for the Environment hahaha

Thats how Vienna has done it since decades.

So this Walls Street Journal report was a bit disappointing! Incineration of consumer waste is very common maybe not in the U.S.

Apparently our English is incomprehensible that you need subtitles. Geez!

what the heck is kW per hour?

Babe, wake up. New WSJ trash video just dropped

Recycling is just a myth, it's reuse that we have to focus on. Reusable are always left behind by these recycling countries.

Need to get to the root cause - need to stop the production of materials that can’t be efficiently recycled

That landfill is building a causeway. When it hits Los Angeles it will have been inside US territorial waters long enough for Lee Kwan Yew VI to be eligible to run for Governor of California -- which he will win at a walk.

Pounds!!! seriously, you converted from Singapore SI to Imperial to present this?

i see😊

I wonder if the ashes are good fertilizer? Grow trees to absorb the CO2 from the air.

Multiply that by THOUSANDS of cities in the world and someone better take a serious look at overpopulation.

Such a wealthy country too

That's energy going to waste.

Land is cheaper in the united states.

Pounds 🙄

Are Americans really fascinated by the most simple way of waste processing? This has been the standard for decades in most of the European cities. Only 55% recycling is really not an especially good number for recycling, you can even hear glass breaking when the truck dumps its contents. If they want to tackle their trash problem, they should ban single use plastics&containers and put a value on any can, bottle, ... used.

India should learn something from Singapore

We could all do this, don’t need a universal degree 😊,