I actually went here 3 years ago with my dad for training and saw the whole process live. We even went to the "trash" island, which, sounds disgusting, but the island was actually really clean. You couldn't even smell the trash, it truly is amazing.
There's more than 1000 rules in Singapore 🇸🇬 so if u go there better not drop any trash or anything if not that's like a $1000 fine right there sometimes it's $3000 you never know!!
As a Brit I live in a very “trash” filled country so when I went to Singapore I stayed I now live happily with my family and am officially a citizen of Singapore!!!!
Issue is its not possible for a lot of countries due to the size of the population. Singapore is considered a really small country so the output of garbage is much smaller than most other countries
Singapore. The country that decades ago was a poor country whose rulers dreamt of trying to make it like Sri Lanka. But now?? Sri Lanka is trying to be like Singapore which is just a dream that will never become the reality. As a Sri Lankan, its so jealous, proud and sad at the same time right now.
If your on your phone your still using power, electric cars pollute tons to in the process of mining the rare metals to how it consumes energy. People preach about green this green that and just because they have a Tesla they think they're saving the earth when they're making little to no difference since they are still using their phones and charging their Tesla. The entire green movement is bullshit their power alternatives suck. The best spruce of clean power is nuclear nobody can say otherwise because countries who used solar and wind (Germany) ended up polluting more than countries who are mostly nuclear (France)
@@scarletth.101 yup there is, and it is already working in the whole world. Burning trash is highly toxic and expensive. There is no technology that can capture all the metals and so2 gases. Also note that CO2, hot water given to natural water resources, other highly volatile and toxic gases cant be perevented. There is no factory on earth that is not toxic. There is another technology for trash which puts less stress to environment
As a Singaporean, i can confirm the trash cycle is quite amazing 😄 HOWEVER, it may also indirectly be the reason we use so much waste - we never see it. We're told this is where it goes, we dont see how much we waste. Maybe it isn't such a good thing after all - not being able to see and realise just how many natural resources we waste every day.
Well if your infrastructure can handle it in under 24 hour, you don’t make too much waste. 2 concerns: - Recycling should still be promoted - Hope the ash pool is not just another landfill at the end of the day (toxic materials etc… should be handled)
We waste more in America, and I’m sure they do in other country’s as well. You guys are really excellent for being so clean and deserve to live comfortably so don’t worry lol!
Hey, I found some data regarding how much single use plastic South East Asian nations produce. The highest is the Singaporean with 76 kg per capita per year. The second rank goes to the Vietnamese with only 20 kg. So yes, you guys produce lots of waste
As a singaporean I have to say this is true but we are quickly running out of space on the semakau island (the man made island) and we are trying to find alternatives. Plastic waste is also a huge issue
Okay, as a Singaporean, I can confirm that this method is used to dispose of our trash. However, plastic waste in our country is this still one of the highest, and the landfill that he was talking about is going to get filled soon. So in some years time, we will have no space to dump our trash (the ash) anymore. So uh yeah, not that great...
@@utheemmely271 I was thinking the same thing, maybe have food scraps and stuff have a different type of trash? (Ik compost is a thing here in the US but idk about signapore)
It's called green washing , as ideal a system this presenter paints, it's not perfect because you still gotta deal with the toxic ash left after burning waste. Which is a significant issue
The reactor is built to convert everything into energy and clean byproduct. There's still trash in Singapore but it's far less polluted than other peer nations
@@rurall I don’t live in Singapore but in one of the cleanest cities on earth, and I still think that we have a lot of trash, so it’s hard for me to imagine what countries that rank low on that list looks like
Singapore could do this easily because its just an island, thus easy to collect all the trash. If a bigger country like germany did this, there would have to be a lot of these factories for it to work efficiently.
when i used to live there, it is true there is no trash but if you go to Edinburgh there is. there is also a problem there, there are barely any trees on the sidewalks which makes you feel less connected to nature, there are trees in parks tho ofc
You thought of this when you were a kid so you were way ahead of everyone.. don't make yourself feel bad.. you can still march ahead.. let your ideas known to the right people.. I believe in you 👊🏼
One flaw with this process is that it is really but REALLY expensive, and not every country can afford to go green and the ones that can, don’t really care most of the time, most people care about the short term progress and modernization but do not think about the future, plus, it doesn’t even matter, global warming isn’t a big issue, pollution isn’t a big problem, because all of these things affect the world in such a minimal way, it doesn’t really make an impact, global warming is a natural progress where the earth gets hotter and hotter and once it’s too hot gets colder and colder again and it goes like that in a cycle, that’s ice age periods happened...
I live in Singapore and this very true. Everyday I will follow the recycle truck to the burning place and give them snacks to eat for all of this hard work and keeping Singapore clean
And as a person who lives in this country, I can see there is trash around some toilets are not clean but mostly they are if you want to go to the shopping mall or whatever they will be clean, but the mostly of Singapore is very clean and filled with animals and pictures
Yeah it is they hypocrisy of modern governments. People always say democracy is great and can make countries great, but Singapore, China and India is a very good example for why that isn't true as Singapire and China are dictatorships and have developed economically so quickly in such a small amount of time while India is stuck with its non-effective communist policies, bad administration and worse leaders
It might be a reason to why not a lot of countries do this because Singapore is such a small country it doesn’t need much power so that’s why this works for them
I would rather have a clean world than a lot of money, just make the world clean and get a good job that makes you money. We need to take care of earth. #WeLoveEarth
US tried but Obama shut down gas and coal fire furnaces, Florida has one made and it ran for a while till he shut them all down, sad to see it when they burn so clean there’s no pollution. I think it’d be an amazing thing to have
And the thing I realized when I came to Singapore. People was so incredibly care about their environment, their ecosystem, their city. Not because of the strict rules that exists, but the people themselves
No way. Im a local and people are absolute trash. There's bins all over but they don't throw their rubbish in it. Ppl still spiton pavement and walkways, didnt even bother to move a bit more to the drains. Not to mention bloody smokers.
Thats what they told you. But actually majority of the waste and recycling materials are shipped to Cambodia, Vietnam, and Papua. And Singapore imports back the sand from these countries for land reclamation.
There is trash in the smaller neighbourhoods while the bigger city it is spotless, examples are Ang mo kio with trash here and there while Raffles place and Cityhall are spotless
Singapore is a small island surrounded by water implementing something like this in a big country like United States would be too expensive and there is also nowhere to throw the remaining ash
That's unfortunately not possible, especially for countries which don't have an ocean right beside them. Recycling is still a better option. The only problematic thing is that barely anyone cares to recycle.
actually theres more to it,, i live in singapore and i did research on this man-made island. so apparently they section off a part and dump all the ash in it. after its filled, they cover it with soil and plant trees with other greenery on it which allows other animals and insects to trive on it. so its actually a great self-sustaining way to remove waste :)
nah .. India one of great country and one of great army too but ur politician is fucked up also some mentality of indian ignorance. Entertainment still good there and the street food.
Incorrect. The rest of the world would be effected by individual governments’ choices; that of which will cause global warming perhaps - which would at one point effect Singapore.
My friend is working there for last 2 years, he said the place is completely a mental hell, people are almost like robot, ppl all day all night chasing money. He soon leave the job..
Tbh this process should be a global contract to make it mandatory for every country or at least most. Imagine how healthy the planet would if that came true
That’s a great idea and really makes perfect sense. Wondering though, what medium are they using to burn the trash 24/7? Is the fire self sustaining? Also a great idea to use that heat to generate electricity but from this video it indicates a the whole city. I don’t think there is enough heat to do that - perhaps a portion of the energy needed. Also, they certainly can’t burn metal waste such as food cans so there must be some sort of recycling separation of combustibles from noncombustibles. Therefore, what does Singapore do with the noncombustibles? I would think through their normal recycling processes. Some ideas are going around to use food garbage to produce methane gas to help supplement natural gas usage. All these thoughts on recycling will certainly come together to make our Earth a better and safer place.
I think the fire is sustained by the trash. As one trash burns fire spreads on other trash then if they add more trash the trash keeps burning so i think the trash is the fuel themselves. Pretty smart idea of Singapore to do so
@@chongkim940 i think the trash is the fuel for the fire. Like burning wood and wood is already the fuel for burning wood so no other resource needed just trash and a match to start burning it all.
As a singaporean this is not true as people throw rubish,segerets on the floor or most of the time in the beach people often throw plastic bags and animals eat it and would sometimes get a heart infection or get it stuck in their stomach or die 💀
Keep in mind the population of Singapore is 5,894,228 mean while the US has a population of 332,854,943. Plus this would produce enormous amounts of c02
