Turning your rubbish into pavements
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Singapore turns rubbish into energy and footpaths

Singapore is a small country with a big rubbish problem. Currently most of its waste is burned and buried on an artificial island - but that is nearly full.

So the country is experimenting with a waste-to-energy system - burning its rubbish to generate electricity then putting the remaining material to build things like footpaths.

But critics say this doesn't address the real problem - we're just producing too much trash.

  • 19 Feb 2020
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