Kallang Riverside megatrash 27June2010

Looks like the recent floods pushed out a lot of trash into the Kallang Basin...but where will a lot of it end up?

Pictures taken Sunday 27June 2010 morning.

A trash bin cover...

Some dead rats...

and then another one...

There were quite a few dead fish too!

plastic bottles and trash as far as the eye could see...

A wallet....with some ID cards (hopefully the owner wasn't also washed away in the floods).

and more dead fish...



...and more dead fish (all tilapia sp.)




The PUB contract cleaners were out in their blue trash tub boats clearing flotsam from the deeper parts of the reservoir.

Hope the Barrage/Reservoir managers will send someone to clear up the shore too! or else some of this stuff will eventually flow out of the barrage into the sea. There was a lot of litter in the shallows out of reach of the blue trash boats. Every 15 seconds (my observation at the barrage on several occasions), a piece of plastic trash can be observed in the upper water column flowing out to the sea once a barrage door is opened. And that is just in the upper water column. Imagine how much trash is ejected year round! Where does all this trash come from? You and me!. We are also responsible for using far too much plastic. Plastic is an inconvenient convenience.We need to reduce our use of it and carefully dispose it whilst recycling what we can.

Singapore should do more to prevent any 'accidental' contribution to the Trash vortexes.

Do you want to do something about marine litter?
Learn about what you can do here :
http://coastalcleanup.nus.edu.sg/
http://coastalcleanup.wordpress.com/

Links about the trash vortexes:-
http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2010/06/cartonist-explains-the-pacific-garbage-patch-with-talking-sealife.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbage-patch/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8534052.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/trashing-our-oceans/ocean_pollution_animation
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/today-on-planet-100-the-pacific-trash-vortex-explained-video.php
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/pacific-trash-vortex-signifies-future-of-oceans.php
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/great_pacific_garbage_patch.php
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914145,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7450769/The-Biggest-Dump-in-the-World.html