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SINGAPORE: Singapore\u2019s National Environment Agency (NEA) has issued an advisory\u00a0to licensed general waste disposal facilities handling construction\u00a0and demolition waste on the requirements governing such waste, while reiterating that it could not be exported for disposal.<\/p>\n
The advisory came amid allegations that construction and demolition waste from Singapore had been\u00a0illegally dumped in Malaysia\u2019s Johor state<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Malaysian media\u00a0outlets also reported on Tuesday (Aug 18) that Singapore had halted all exports of construction and demolition waste to Malaysia with immediate effect, citing comments from\u00a0the\u00a0Johor branch of Malaysian government agency Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp).<\/p>\n In response to CNA\u2019s queries on Tuesday (Aug 18) night, NEA said that it recently reached out to SWCorp Johor to obtain more information regarding construction and demolition waste reportedly originating from Singapore being disposed of in Pontian, Johor.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cDuring the call with SWCorp, NEA affirmed that Singapore does not allow C&D waste to be exported for disposal,\u201d said NEA, referring to construction and demolition waste.<\/p>\n \u201cUnder Singapore\u2019s regulatory framework, C&D waste must be properly processed and sorted locally for recycling.\u201d<\/p>\n However, \u201chomogenous material streams\u201d such as ferrous scrap recovered from such waste are considered recyclables and can be exported, subject to the relevant regulatory requirements, it added.\u00a0<\/p>\n Both Malaysia and Singapore are parties\u00a0to the Basel Convention, an international treaty that regulates the transboundary movements of hazardous and other waste and obliges countries to ensure that such waste is managed and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: Singapore\u2019s National Environment Agency (NEA) has issued an advisory\u00a0to licensed general waste disposal facilities handling construction\u00a0and demolition waste on the requirements governing such waste,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77660,"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-77659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77659","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=77659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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