Rice thrown out of HDB flat window: 29,000 cases of high-rise littering investigated yearly, says NEA
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Despite knowing that it is illegal to throw litter out of high-rise HDB flats, some individuals continue to do so, often without regard for the consequences. Recently, a homeowner at Block 4 Lorong Lew Lian was caught in the act of high-rise littering, accoRice thrown out of HDB flat window: 29,000 cases of high-rise littering investigated yearly, says NEA
Despite knowing that it is illegal to throw litter out of high-rise HDB flats, some individuals continue to do so, often without regard for the consequences. Recently, a homeowner at Block 4 Lorong Lew Lian was caught in the act of high-rise littering, according to the National Environment Agency (NEA) in a statement on Saturday (May 18). In a Facebook post published the same day, NEA said it began its investigations after receiving reports of such issues at the block. Within a week, NEA captured a resident throwing rice out of their window, and promptly served a notice to the flat owner. NEA wrote in the post: «Littering from residential flats is a serious offence as it poses a danger to the public, dirties the environment and threatens our public hygiene.» According to the NEA, it had investigated around 29,000 instances of feedback involving high-rise littering per year from 2021 to 2023. Over the same period, the agency also deployed an average of 2,500 cameras annually, and conducted about 1,100 enforcement actions against people caught committing high-rise littering.