Monday, January 02, 2006
Revellers leave behind 6,000kg of trash after Orchard Rd party SINGAPORE : Orchard Road was also party central as Singaporeans and visitors alike ushered in the New Year.
But the revellers also left behind a trail of trash - 6,000 kilogrammes of it!
Party people came out in full force. And so did the street cleaners.
About 30 of them were deployed to pick up after the crowd left.
This is twice the cleaning manpower used on a normal day.
And despite the additional 20 bins placed along Orchard Road, rubbish overflowed and onto the streets.
Jeffrey Tang, Supervisor of FME Onyx, said: "Everybody is having fun. They forgot that there are bins around. So when they are having fun, they just start throwing all over the place, it's part and parcel of the enjoyment.
"As we go along, the cleansing, we still face people having fun and also throwing out the tin cans again. And we would still have to go back again and have another another set of cleansing."
- CNA/deThis shows how inconsiderate and selfish people are. The situation would have been different if they were not allowed to leave Orchard road after the party and had to clear the rubbish themselves. Those street cleaners are not their servants.
angelzone | 12:35 pm | me, myself and i