Environmental Debt
Dear Friends,
This week was not a clean week. Despite our fewer programmes due to the long weekend and right after the general elections; we picked up pretty much the record weight for both CSR and patrols combined. Our 6 CSR/VIA groups alone picked up 472kg of trash; that’s more than 2kg per person! Despite the tremendous amount of trash picked up by our environmental champions, there was still quite a lot of rubbish floating around. This week, we saw Marina Reservoir being covered with floating trash & cigarette butts in many places (see pictures below). Pang Sua, Punggol and Marina are not spared from the additional trash.
We also played host to 2 media outlets – 31 Production on Saturday with our President Joo Kek & Austrian broadcasting corporation, ORF with our CEO, Eugene, on Sunday. While they generally had good experience with us, they were visually treated first hand to the situation that is our reservoirs. Is Singapore really clean? Or is it clean because we have to hire cleaners to clean up after us? As developed as we are, we definitely still have a long way to go.
Summary of activities conducted over this week:
In summary, the following activities were done for this week:-
- CSR & VIA
- 5 CSR programmes – Volunteer Switchboard, GXS Bank, Marriott Vacation Club Asia, Empact, Sivantos
- 1 VIA programme – Hwa Chong Institution
- Total assisting volunteers – 45
- Total rubbish collected – 472kg
- Member Patrols
- 3 Boat patrol – 2 Marina, 1 Punggol
- 4 Bike patrol – 2 Marina, 1 Jurong, 1 Punggol
- 3 Pedal Boat – 2 Marina, 1 Jurong
- 1 Foot – Pang Sua
- 3 Gardening/Maintenance – 2 Marina, 1 Punggol
- Total assisting volunteers – 61
- Total rubbish collected – 100kg
ACTIVITIES AND REPORT
1. Educational Programmes
2. Volunteer Patrols & Activities
a. Marina
b. Punggol
c. Lakeside
d. Pang Sua Pond
e. Yishun Pond Patrol
| No patrol |