Discussion | Beverage Container Return Scheme BCRS

[averagebean]

First world country third world citizens

 

[nasfieldjohn]

Mani sinkies karang guni in jp

 

[cet87]

Coz FW are rich

Only sinkies work for $3 per hour collecting and returning bcrs

Trivia: If it takes you more than 10 minutes to take 5 bottles and walk to the bcrs machine and then walk back, congratulations you are working for $3 per hour.

1hr = $3
10hr = $30
10hr x 30days = $900

 

[clearsky7]

huh, i tot is other way round, fw to ask local

 

[cet87]

huh, i tot is other way round, fw to ask local

looked like a healthy abled sinkie.

 

[yuzu28]

I wonder why these people prefer to dig bins rather than go work at f&b? I don't believe they dun employ sporean, but for sure pay is low. Like McD that kind job, should be able to find ba?

 

[Amaterasu]

Propaganda from another angle ah ?

10cts is nothing to foreign worker whereas locals scour rubbish bins for 10cts ?

 

[esandwich]

thanking pap for job creation for sinkies!

 

[cimihuh]

"One foreign worker said he has encountered at least four middle-aged men collecting containers."

Middle-aged. This is the group that 上有老，下有小。

Sigh. Must be really in financial hardship.

 

[wwenze]

looked like a healthy abled sinkie.

Hard to say. Many healthy abled are not mentally healthy abled.

 

[Overture1928]

"One foreign worker said he has encountered at least four middle-aged men collecting containers."

Middle-aged. This is the group that 上有老，下有小。

Sigh. Must be really in financial hardship.

Poor sinkie men. Forever losers in the system

 

[wwenze]

Propaganda from another angle ah ?

10cts is nothing to foreign worker whereas locals scour rubbish bins for 10cts ?

FW can drink beer in little India until kena ban sale of beer

Beer tariff so expensive

 

[Medicated Oil]

It is surreal seeing so many santa around the machine now.

 

[coyote]

The foreign worker said: "After all, it's only worth a few cents, so it doesn't matter if I gave it to them. I told them that I hadn't finished drinking yet, and that I would hang it on the doorknob of a door after I have finished, and they would come to get it then."

Even foreign workers are supportive!!! Yet our members here everyday jjww about 10c

 

[davidtkl76]

I wonder why these people prefer to dig bins rather than go work at f&b? I don't believe they dun employ sporean, but for sure pay is low. Like McD that kind job, should be able to find ba?

Cos they can do this under the radar…not seen by relatives etc. Flexi hours too. No boss to report to.

 

[enigmastar]

Actually there are a lot of very poor people in Singapore is just that that we don't get to see them in our regular life because of our laws. Its illegal to beg in sg and if you homeless and sleep in public place, the police have the power to send u to welfare home.

Collecting cardboard already got people doing, collecting cans sure got people do to earn a few bucks.

 

[86technie]

Actually there are a lot of very poor people in Singapore is just that that we don't get to see them in our regular life because of our laws. Its illegal to beg in sg and if you homeless and sleep in public place, the police have the power to send u to welfare home.

Collecting cardboard already got people doing, collecting cans sure got people do to earn a few bucks.

This yet Men in white pay raise.
Sinkies need to dig rubbish bin for extra cash.

 

[KakiMeow]

moi stardee AI

gotch tis

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Germany’s Deposit Return Scheme (known as Pfand) is a mandatory, return-to-retail system overseen by DPG (Deutsche Pfandgesellschaft) that achieves a 98% return rate across more than 135,000 collection locations

Emergence of a Precarious Sub-Economy
The system created an informal, vulnerable socio-economic class known as Pfandsammler (bottle collectors). [1, 2]

• Survival Income: Low-income pensioners, unhoused individuals, and the unemployed walk city streets to forage for empty containers out of public trash cans to scrape together €10 to €15 a day.
• Socio-Urban Tensions: In response to safety hazards and the visual reality of citizens digging through trash, some German cities introduced "anti-collector" public bins or underground storage to hide bottles, drawing immense public criticism for marginalising vulnerable populations.
• Social Norm Shift: Conversely, this also created a unique cultural habit: everyday Germans now intentionally leave their empty bottles next to public bins rather than inside them, so collectors don't have to reach into dangerous garbage.
  

 

[yuzu28]

I remember reading that one even had did a "career switch" from collect cardboard to collect cans and bottles.

 

[Monstruo^]

So sia suay and jialat… must do until like that… wlwl