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CapitaLand expands e-waste recycling efforts to 10 malls, 8 office properties
Its pilot programme collected 32,000 kg of e-waste.
CapitaLand is ramping up its efforts to go green, as the firm is launching electronic waste (e-waste) recycling bins across 10 of it Singapore malls in a bid to encourage tenants and shoppers to adopt e-waste recycling.
According to the company's media release, CapitaLand is partnering StarHub for its mall e-waste recycling initiative, leveraging StarHub’s REcycling Nation’s Electronic Waste (RENEW) programme launched in September 2014.
The move builds on the firm's first e-waste recycling programme at Funan DigitaLife Mall. Funan's e-waste recycling programme started in May 2014, and by June 2016 had collected more than 32,000 kg of e-waste. CapitaLand’s efforts makes it the largest mall network with such an initiative in Singapore.
CapitaLand reported that it is also engaging Singapore office tenants with an e-waste collection drive from this month to December 2016 in eight of its office properties—Capital Tower, CapitaGreen, Six Battery Road, One George Street, Raffles City Tower, Twenty Anson, HSBC Building and Wilkie Edge.
"With the proliferation of electrical and electronic devices and new models being launched regularly, we can expect e-waste quantities to increase over time,” commented Ong Soo San, Director of the Waste and Resource Management Department at Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA).
“To reduce waste and conserve resources, NEA encourages the reuse of serviceable items such as by selling them to secondhand traders or giving them away to charity. For items that cannot be reused, consumers are encouraged to deposit them into recycling bins such as those provided by CapitaLand," he added.
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