SINGAPORE - A man has been fined $19,800 and sentenced to
five hours of Corrective Work Order for committing 34 acts of high-rise
littering.This is the highest fine meted out to date for the offence, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said in a statement today.
The 38-year-old offender repeatedly threw cigarette butts out of his home at Block 224C Compassvale Walk between Mar 13 and 16, 2014.
The NEA received five instances of feedback on high-rise
littering at the block between June 2013 and June 2014."Despite repeated educational rounds conducted by the Town Council and grassroots organisation, including stake-outs by NEA officers, the high-rise littering problem persisted," the NEA said.
It subsequently deployed a surveillance camera between Nov 14 and 18, 2013 and between Mar 13 and 18, 2014, which caught the offender in the act 34 times.
Source: Agency
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