3R Campaign

Monday, 28 April 2014 at10:32

The 3R System

The name of the design is “The 3R System”.3R stands for Recycle, Rebate and Redeem. People have to recycle first to get points rebate, lastly they will able to redeem the points at several places such as Fair Price (NTUC), OG (Singapore based Department Store).




Trash Collecting Day:

Trash Collectors will drop by at each household to collect the waste materials on every Wednesday and Saturday. On Wednesday, they will collect Plastics and Electronic waste materials. On Saturday, they will collect Papers, Metals and others waste materials. Label Trash Bags will also be provided every week for residence to sort out the waste. Residence will just have to leave the garbage outside the house during those collecting days. Waste materials that place outside the door for collection on the wrong materials day will not be collected. Trash Collector will weight and key into the system of how much waste the household recycled.

Point-Card System:

Every Singaporean will sign up a 3R account under their names. To activate their account, the person must firstly visit the website www.3Rs.com.sg and the Point-Card will be sent to the address stated in the registration within 2 weeks time. Upon the trash collection from each household, only 1 point-card account will be keyed into the system for the points.

If trash is too much, bring it to the nearest Neighbourhood Community Centre for recycling, state the name and IC numbers to update the points. Everyone is able to recycle at the Neighbourhood Community Centre every day except Public Holidays.

Every 1 kg recycled will get 100 points to the account. The point system account is valid for life time, points can be accumulated up until a year. Points will be re-new every year. Points are able to be checked on the website as well as the neighbourhood community centre. Points can be redeemed at all Fair Price (NTUC) outlets and OG (Singapore based Department store).   


If the card is misplaced or found, please return it to the Neighbourhood Community Centre.