{"id":14146,"date":"2025-11-24T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14146"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:54:32","slug":"lembu-road-open-space-buried-in-litter-how-can-we-allow-this-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14146","title":{"rendered":"Lembu Road open space buried in litter: &#8216;How can we allow this to happen?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">A video showing an open space next to Lembu Road covered in litter has set off a wave of criticism online, with many questioning why enforcement appears lacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The 23-second <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/846259467765287\" target=\"_blank\"><span><u>video<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span> was posted on Facebook page Singapore Incidents on Nov 22, with the caption: &#8220;Still the cleanest country in the world?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">It shows a grass patch strewn with plastic bags, bottles and pieces of cardboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">However, no date was provided for when the footage was taken. At press time, it garnered more than 94,000 views, 850 reactions, 360 comments and 160 shares.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-[-8px] mt-lg font-primary text-22 font-bold leading-1.5\">&#8216;Put a big bin&#8217;: Netizens<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Some commenters urged the authorities to provide more bins and facilities in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;There should be enough dustbins and mobile toilets for the Sunday workers crowd,&#8221; said one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Another added: &#8220;How can we allow this to happen? Send ambassador to these places on Sunday and educate these foreigners to clean up the mess they made. Alternatively, provide enough bins around this area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Others went straight to the point, calling on the National Environment Agency (NEA) to intervene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;NEA please do some things, to get improve, must take action. Don&#8217;t double standard,&#8221; another said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">A number of users referenced past enforcement cases, including the widely discussed incident of a man fined for leaving a <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/trending-now\/also-can-get-fine-man-stunned-300-fine-leaving-cigarette-butt-top-rubbish-bin?ref=search\" target=\"_blank\" data-discover=\"true\">cigarette butt on top of a rubbish bin<\/a><\/span>. They questioned why similar strictness was not applied here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;NEA can catch local person putting a cigarette butt on the dust bin top, easy job. But what about this horrifying case?? From this video, it seems this is not the first time!&#8221; said one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Some asked if it was the aftermath of a party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Another joked: &#8220;NEA also don&#8217;t know where to start\u2026 hahaha.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">According to The Straits Times, <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/posters-of-litterbugs-displayed-in-chinatown-as-nea-strives-to-keep-neighbourhoods-clean\" target=\"_blank\">NEA issued about 800 enforcement tickets<\/a><\/span> at cleanliness hot spots in the first half of 2025, of which about 240 were for littering offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">First-time littering offenders are fined a composition sum of $300, while offenders prosecuted in Court may be issued a fine and be sentenced to perform Corrective Work Order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Stomp has contacted NEA for comment.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-md py-md xl:flex-row xl:items-center\"><span class=\"font-primary text-18 font-semibold leading-1.2 text-black\">Get more of Stomp&#8217;s latest updates by following us on:<\/span><\/div>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<p>Join the conversation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/trending-now\/lembu-road-open-space-buried-litter-how-can-we-allow-happen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video showing an open space next to Lembu Road covered in litter has set off a wave of criticism online, with many questioning why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}