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Litterbugs beware, the authorities are turning to public shaming again to get you to stop tossing your trash indiscriminately.
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CWO, a penalty added to anti-littering laws here in 1992, involves making litterbugs pick up trash at places with high human traffic, such as neighbourhood centres.
The punishment is meted out in lieu of or in addition to fines, which were doubled in April.
Littering boils down to an attitude problem. Singaporeans can be less civic-conscious, thinking that someone will clean up their mess, said Dr Lee Bee Wah, chairperson of the Government Parliamentary Committee for National Development and Environment.
She added that Singaporeans need to be mindful of the need to dispose of litter into a dustbin even in places where they cannot be found.
The authorities have tried various measures in the past year or so to tackle this anti-social behaviour, including installing surveillance cameras to catch litterbugs red-handed and enhancing fines. They have also considered giving volunteer littering police the power to book offenders.
The authorities are out in force to punish litterbugs: From January to June this year, the NEA issued 9,271 littering tickets, nearly as many as the 9,346 issued in the whole of last year. In 2012, 8,195 littering tickets were issued.
Littering has been thrown under the spotlight again in recent months, partly because of a spate of killer-litter incidents, including one that caused the death in June of an elderly woman, three weeks after she had been struck by a bicycle wheel allegedly flung from the 14th floor of a building by a teenage boy.
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