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SINGAPORE: A record 15,000 banners will be recycled into collectible items for the launch of Clean and Green Singapore (CGS) 2010 later this year.
The Banner Recycle! Programme aims to drive home the message that recycling can help conserve Singapore's limited resources and at the same time, be rewarding to the community.
More than 12,000 used banners have been gathered so far from events such as the National Day Parade and the Asian Youth Games.
Organisers – the National Environment Agency and South West Community Development Council – hope to produce at least 10,000 practical and collectible items made from the banners.
South West CDC's Mayor Amy Khor said: "We are getting the women members from WEworkz, Women's cooperative, to turn the banners into recyclable grocery bags, pencil cases, phone pouches, coin purses and so on.
"The women will be paid for making these bags and pencil cases, and these recyclable items will be distributed at the Clean and Green Singapore Carnival later in the year."
- CNA/so
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