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Green Exchange
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Focus area: Mitigation
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Location: Queenstown, Tampines North and Macpherson communities in Singapore
Established: 12 October 2010
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The main objective of the activity is to promote a habit of recycling in the heartlands by conducting
such events throughout Singapore. Recycling is a key activity that helps to reduce rate of
deforestation. It also prevents the burning of waste materials which may contribute harmful gases and
more greenhouse gases to the environment. Moreover, the activity is able to provide basic necessities
like rice to the lower income families in Singapore through a food exchange program. By incentivizing
and promoting the message of recycling, the beneficiaries will learn the positive economic and
environmental impact they had. As a result, people's heart will be more attuned to the plight of
the environment when their actions are able to bring in economic benefits.
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Mitigation / Adaptation
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Social and environmental benefits
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Potential for scaling-up and replication
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In its efforts to reduce burning of waste and avoid greenhouse gas emissions, Green Exchange
has collected more than 8,000kg of recycle materials, such as paper, plastic and metals. It has
been conducted in 9 districts in Singapore, collecting an average of 900-1000 kg worth of
recycle materials.
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The activity has provided social and environmental benefits by:
- Engaging with urban poor communities and the elderly;
- Reducing of hoarding of waste materials that pose a danger in crowded and cluttered corridors
of housing facilities;
- Clearing waterways in order to prevent health hazards.
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Green Exchange has proved to be popular regionally and has since expanded to Brunei where it
was welcomed favorably by the Government of Brunei. Avelife and the Government of Brunei have
held Green Exchanges concurrently on 2 occasions and have collected a significant amount of
recyclables. Green Exchange in Brunei is now regularly been held in Kampong Ayer, a trademark
of Brunei due to its unique features. Kampong Ayer is a floating water village densely
populated by Bruneians and since disposing of trash rightly is made difficult on water and also
due to its inaccessibility, the waterways have since cleared with the occurrence of Green
Exchange events, proving to be effective.
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Organizations
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Avelife Organization
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