Every day a Singaporean discards 1.1 kilograms of rubbish.During 1999 Singaporeans throw away 2.8 million tons of rubbish.If this amount of rubbish is stacked up to a man height of 1.7 meters it would occupy up to 350 football fields!

Land pollution in Singapore occurs mainly in 3 ways:
1. Littering
2. Illegal dumping of domestic waste
3. Poor waste management from construction sites and industrial estates.

Illegal dumping of domestic waste
Homes and offices also have a big impact on the amount of rubbish as people leave behind and throw away packaging materials, plastic bottles, unfinished food. Piles of dirty and rotting materials may attract rodents and insects that may carry organisms dangerous to our health.
Therefore other physical solutions have to be employed in Singapore to alleviate the problem of illegal dumping.

Poor waste management from construction sites and industrial estates.
This factor also causes major pollution. Construction firms burn their waste on-site instead of bringing the rubbish to the proper grounds for disposal.
In doing so, the building contractors hope to save money and time. These errant contractors run the risk of losing their license if they are caught.

It is important to clear land rubbish regularly because of the large amount of waste that can be accumulated. In the early days, as there was no system of sewage and refuse collection, people would just throw their rubbish anywhere and there were no laws against such actions.
It was a tough and extremely difficult task to collect rubbish in the early days. They had only pushing carts to contain their collected rubbish. There were lots of flies buzzing around and the waste is rotting in the open air.

But now, it is totally different, we have modern machinery to help us collect the rubbish. People would just have to tie their rubbish in plastic bags and throw it down into chutes found in their very own houses and there will be rubbish trucks to collect the rubbish regularly everyday.

Thoughts: Are we still going to pollute Singapore? Although now it is more convenient then the past as there were trucks to help us throw away our rubbish.But look at Singapore...People were still throwing litters all around the floor.The singaporeans were too fortunate and became lazy.Now,most of the singaporeans were throwing litters on the floor whenever they like.I hope you will think twice before throwing litters on the floor,think about the future,think what will happen to us.