It’s official, our government has given up. After years of nagging us to return the trays, they finally snapped and implemented a deposit system where every tray requires a cash guarantee. No more ...

Earlier this week, Voices writer Jamie Tan suggested that the authorities forbid cleaners from clearing tables at hawker centres that charge refundable 50-cent or S$1 deposits for trays. This will ...

SINGAPORE: Remember when robots roamed around food courts collecting your used crockery? Many of these robots have since disappeared. Some have been converted to tray-collection stations, with only a ...

Eight years ago, Singapore started its nationwide tray return campaign to encourage patrons to return their trays and used crockery at dining establishments. Since then, a plethora of initiatives have ...

SINGAPORE - A photo circulating on social media of a full tray-return rack with trays placed on the ground of a hawker centre was taken in 2016, and the situation there has improved greatly since, ...

SINGAPORE - Coffee shops and foodcourts will soon have new funding to install more tray-return facilities as part of a nationwide campaign to get diners to clean up in public places. Launched by the ...