Oral Reply to Parliamentary Question on High-rise Littering by Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment

Oral Reply by Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment, to Parliamentary Question on High-rise Littering

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang: To ask the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment what is the rationale for legislating and making high-rise littering an offence despite the inherent difficulty in enforcement.

Answer:

1 Littering in public places is an offence under Section 17 of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987. This covers littering in a range of scenarios including high-rise littering. There is no separate legislative provision for high-rise littering.