In Singapore, waste disappears without a trace.

Singapore It is a model city worldwide for the way it organizes waste collection, disposal, and recycling. This circular process ultimately eliminates pollution and waste, allowing the metropolis to remain clean. Collection occurs daily with 2 trucks, and through a network of underground pipes, a kind of garbage subway, waste is transferred from apartment buildings directly to disposal and reuse facilities. In the waste-to-energy plants (there are four in total), the waste is burned in a rapid yet complicated process that does not generate carbon dioxide (toxic smoke), but only clean energy, distributed to residents' homes. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Then there are other forms of waste transformation, aside from energy. Plastic is transformed and recycled into an eco-friendly bitumen used to pave roads, and the ash residue is used to produce eco-friendly bricks. The 10 percent of waste that isn't transformed becomes ash, and are transported to an artificial island with no connection to the sea: made of waste, Semakau Island, eight kilometers south of Singapore, is an ecological landfill, capable of containing material sufficient to fill over 6 Olympic-sized swimming pools. The harmful material stays put in the landfill, which is also visited by tourist tours and school groups who study its functioning. Surrounded by mangrove plantations, it is almost a nature reserve. 

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