SInkieland has 70K cleaners, and Taipei has 5K, but Taipei is still cleaner

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I believe it. when u import 2 million 3rd world rubbish FTs, your streets and parks will look like dirty trashed filled streets and parks of india, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.

Singapore, Jan. 3 (CNA) A Singaporean community leader said Saturday that his city could learn from Taipei when it comes to keeping the streets clean through voluntary effort.

William Wan, general secretary of the non-profit Singapore Kindness Movement, wrote in an op-ed piece in the Singapore-based Strait Times that perhaps his city-state has "too many cleaners" who have spoiled Singaporeans and called for an end to the "vicious circle of littering."

The co-founder of the Keep Singapore Clean Movement lamented that last week's New Year's celebrations left more garbage on the streets than in any of the past three years, including Styrofoam cups, bottles, and cigarette packs only a meter from empty trash bins.

In comparison, Wan said that Taipei "is much cleaner than (Singapore), even though there are very few rubbish bins in public places."

Singapore has a population of about five million and employs 70,000 cleaners, while Taipei has under three million residents but only 5,000 cleaners, Wan pointed out.

He said that when Keep Singapore Clean representatives visited Taipei weeks ago, their hosts in the Taiwan capital explained the phenomenon by saying: "We clean up after ourselves."

Taiwan's Apple Daily reported that the crowd at New Year celebrations in the capital produced some 19.47 metric tons of trash, all of which was cleaned up in one hour by 562 sanitation workers and some 1,000 volunteers.

About 1.16 million people attended the New Year celebrations for 2014 in Taipei, which produced 22.63 metric tons of trash, while about 850,000 people attended celebrations a year earlier and produced 14.09 metric tons of trash, according to an estimate on the website of the non-profit Taiwan Environmental Information Center.

Public trash cans are rare on Taipei's crowded streets outside of markets, but littering is uncommon as handling one's own trash is considered a civic responsibility.

The situation could improve further at the end of this year as the Environmental Protection Administration aims to completely ban the use of Styrofoam cups in the country, reducing trash and helping save the environment.


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