A WASTE management centre will be set up in Singapore to provide advisory services in this area to regional organisations and governments.
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The Training, Advisory and Promotion (TAP) Centre for Environment and Waste Management will be set up by the Waste Management and Recycling Association of Singapore (WMRAS) and will be its first outside Europe.
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The association signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), and National Environment Agency (NEA) on Monday to establish the centre.
It will organise regional and international waste management training workshops, forums and tradeshows to promulgate an efficient waste management environment in Asia, as well as provide waste management advisory services on policies and master-planning considerations to regional organisations and governments.
The WMRAS, ISWA and NEA aim to promote sustainable waste management and optimise the value of waste as a resource among industry and practitioners in Singapore and the region and the TAP centre will serve to implement these goals.
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This tripartite agreement underscores the common goal and strategy to help address the growing waste challenge due to rapid expansion of economies and urban population in the region.
Asia is currently generating about 1 million tonnes of waste per day and this is expected to increase exponentially to 1.8 million tonnes daily by 2025.
According to a World Bank study, the cost of solid waste management in urban Asia was US$25 billion (S$34.6 billion) per year in 1999 and this figure is expected to increase to US$50 billion per year by 2025.
'Hence, waste management has become a crucial issue in the Asia-Pacific region, potentially taking a toll on the environmental front and a country's financial ability to cope with rising waste management costs,' said a joint statement from the three organisations..
