Singapore man fined 14,776 USD for high-rise littering
Xinhua, January 21, 2015 Adjust font size:
A Singaporean man was fined a total of 19,800 Singapore dollars (14,776 U.S. dollars) and sentenced to five hours of corrective work order for committing 34 acts of high-rise littering, the National Environment Agency said on Wednesday.
It is believed to be the highest fine to date for high-rise littering in Singapore.
The agency said it received five instances of feedback on high- rise littering at a block between June 2013 and June 2014. The littering problem persisted despite repeated educational rounds by the town council and stake-outs by officers from the agency.
The agency then deployed a surveillance camera in November 2013 and March 2014, which revealed 34 acts of high-rise littering by the 38-year-old offender.
The agency said that it received 2,500 instances of feedback on high-rise littering in 2014. It deployed cameras at close to 600 locations with persistent high-rise littering feedback and took 206 enforcement actions against people caught for high-rise littering. Endi