2015 in Singapore — chart by AsiaDailyPost — Contains information from "Solid Waste Management - Population With Access to Waste Collection Services, Annual" accessed on 27 June 2026 from National Environment Agency (data.gov.sg (Singapore Department of Statistics)) which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 (https://beta.data.gov.sg/open-data-licence). from Singapore

For 16 straight years, every single resident in Singapore could count on having their trash collected, according to National Environment Agency data. The access rate held steady at 100% from 2000 through 2015 without a single percentage point of deviation, a streak that is quietly remarkable.

The unbroken streak

In a world where public service delivery often fluctuates with budget cycles or economic shocks, Singapore's universal waste collection is a quiet marvel of municipal planning. The dataset, covering 16 annual readings, shows not a single year where access fell below complete coverage. The system works through a tightly integrated network of daily door-to-door collection, centralised refuse chutes in public housing, and a publicly-managed incineration and landfill chain that leaves no household behind. Few other dense urban centres can claim uninterrupted 100% waste collection access over a comparable timeframe, making Singapore an outlier in environmental management.

What this actually means

For residents, this isn't a statistic — it's the absence of anxiety about overflowing bins or informal dumping. For businesses, it's a predictable sanitation environment that supports everything from food safety compliance to real estate valuations. The flat 100% line also sets a baseline for any future discussion about recycling rates or waste reduction targets.

Sixteen consecutive years at 100% coverage.
No variation across the entire measurement period.
Universal collection backed by public housing infrastructure.

When waste collection is universal and this unwavering, the real question shifts from access to what comes next — like driving down incineration volumes or boosting recycling rates across the island's housing estates.

Source: National Environment Agency via data.gov.sg · 2026-06-27T13:13:45.072Z

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Singapore's Waste Collection Stays at 100% for 16 Years