Please stop "Recycling"

• pinkish purple papayas

  13 Nov 06, 22:15

  Ever see in the streets in singapore, its a common sight that you will see old homeless man limping around the streets?
  
  Note that he/she may be alone, pennyless, homeless, jobless, dirty, depressed BUT HE/SHE HAS A SOURCE OF INCOME!
  
  The income comes from collecting drink cans and cardboard paper and selling to recycling centers. To many, thats their only source of income, since the bloody govt have already ditched them in favour of foreign talents.
  
  But with our govt being so money minded, decided to go into the lucurative recycling business, they set up campaigns to the young children and ordinary sinkaporeans, by placing colour recycling bins and having a smiley green frog as an icon. sinkaporeans, on the context of thinking recycling is good, would just throw their unwanted stuff into the bins
  
  Please stop giving or throwing away your unwanted thrash, give it to the can collecting uncle, although they just earn 1cent per can, its better than throw to those bloody NEA recycling bins that sell these recycled material for a higher price.
  
  I would rather give my newpaper or used cans to a beggar or karang guni, at least he could sell it for 1cent rather than give the govt that would continue to expliot us in the pretext of "recycling".
  
  With our greedy govt even setting up newstands like BUZZ to compete with traditional newspaper stands and setting NTUC fairprice to compete with HDB grocery stores, it will not be long if our govt starts restricting beggar collectors and soon issueing license, fines and jailterms to monopolize the recycling trade.
  
  My plea is, please recycle ur old stuff to a beggar/collecter rather than throw it into those coloured recycling bins for free. At least u are helping them.
• SingaporeMacross

  13 Nov 06, 22:43

  hmm, makes sense. then the poor ladies dont have to go pick cans from the trashbin all the time.
• FBI

  13 Nov 06, 23:06

  u got a point there man!
• nismoS132

  14 Nov 06, 00:45

  yeah, start saving the poor few in the streets by killing the entire planet.
  
  death is the ultimate equaliser.
• pinkish purple papayas

  14 Nov 06, 00:59

  Originally posted by nismoS132:

  yeah, start saving the poor few in the streets by killing the entire planet.
  
  death is the ultimate equaliser.

  dude,
  
  1. u give to a beggar/collector = so he/she would in turn sell to a recycling center. at least theres some source of income for beggars/collectors.
  
  2. u drop into a recycling bin = the govt got it for free, recycle and resell for profit. beggars/collectors get nothing.
  
  3. u throw to rubbish bin = wastage.
  
  Got what i meant ?