Problem of making worse condition in the cleaning industry.

Discarded ponchos, water bottles and more after the 2015 Laneway Festival held at Gardens by the Bay.
Photo: Anjali Raguraman

This is one of the news in Singapore said that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong ticked off Singaporeans the trash left after the Laneway music festival. The reality is we actually look clean because we have 70,000 cleaners cleaning up after us. 


The problem of making the worse condition to those elderly cleaner is that most of people will not go and clean automatically. If someone dumps something at the floor, there will no one will go to clean. Most of people will just wait for the cleaner to come and clean. So this sad reflection will lead the cleaning environment become worse. So we hope to change the situation and the cleanliness of environment is the duty of every users.


In others case that the elderly cleaners were falling down in the toilet due to the wet floor.It is one of the problems that after the toilet was used or washed, it will remain wet and thus making it hazardous place for elderly cleaner.  
  


 However, there is some of the toilet were well-maintained in some others countries also such in Australia, South Korea, Japan,...  One of the very important reason of having the good cleaning industry is that well-educated of keeping the environment clean after used. For an example in Japan, children are taught to clean the toilets in their school so that they know how it would feel like to clean. So they will make sure they do not dirty the toilets and keep it clean for the next person.



Reference:
Chang, Rachel. "Liak Teng Lit: 5 million people, 70,000 cleaners...that's ridiculous!". The Straits Time. 16 Feb 2015
<http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/liak-teng-lit-5-million-people-70000-cleanersthats-ridiculous>

'S'pore likely to become garbage city without foreign workers:ESM Goh'. Today. 29 Jan 2015
<http://ifonlysingaporeans.blogspot.sg/2015/01/pm-lee-calls-for-clean-not-cleaned-city.html>