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CapitaLand is rolling out electronic waste (e-waste) recycling bins in 10 of its malls in Singapore to encourage shoppers and tenants to adopt e-waste recycling.
CapitaLand Malls where the recycling bins will be deployed include Bugis+, Bedok Mall, IMM Building, JCube, Junction 8, Lot One Shoppers’ Mall, Sembawang Shopping Centre, Plaza Singapura, Raffle City Singapore and Tampines Mall.
Apart from its mall tenants, the Singapore property giant is also engaging its office tenants here with an e-waste collection drive from this month to December 2016 across eight of its office properties – CapitaGreen, Capital Tower, One George Street, Six Battery Road, Twenty Anson, Raffles City Tower, Wilkie Edge and HSBC Building.
The drive will allow employees of its office tenants to safely and conveniently dispose of both their personal e-waste, such as music players and personal communication devices as well as corporate e-waste like servers, monitors and computers.
The move builds on the success of its first e-waste recycling programme at Funan DigitaLife Mall which started in May 2014. The e-waste recycling programme collected over 32,000 kg of e-waste by end-June 2016.
“Most e-waste contains small amounts of heavy metals and toxic substances that require specialised equipment and processes to handle,” said Tan Seng Chai, Group CapitaLand chief corporate officer, and chairman of the CapitaLand Sustainability Steering Committee.
He said CapitaLand works with established partners for its e-waste recycling programme in order to ensure that all collected items are properly dismantled and processed with recyclable materials extracted for future use while unrecyclable materials are disposed of in a controlled environment to prevent leaching and pollution.
“Our efforts have also gone beyond Singapore, with our overseas serviced residences offering similar e-waste recycling programmes in Australia and Europe,” he added.
Image: CapitaLand Mall’s JCube in Jurong East.
Nikki De Guzman, Editor at CommercialGuru, wrote this story. To contact her about this or other stories email nikki@propertyguru.com.sg
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