Tut tut, indie music scenesters. If the first ever Laneway Festival Singapore back in 2010 was dubbed Rainway Festival because of persistent wet weather, this year's edition could rightly be called Garbageway Festival due to the overwhelming amount of trash left behind by festival goers — and the Prime Minister himself is displeased.
In a Facebook post made earlier today PM Lee expressed his disappointment at the monumental amount of trash left behind — plastic ponchos, cigarette butts, plastic cups, picnic mats, etc — and compares it with a whole different scene during an AFF Suzuki Cup match where Myanmar sports fans cleaned up after themselves by picking up the litter left behind at the National Stadium.
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Post by Lee Hsien Loong.
"We need to progress from being a cleaned city to a truly clean city," he wrote. "All of us can play a part – picking up our own litter, educating our children and grandchildren, and reminding others to do the right thing."
This would probably mark the first time any government official commented on the annual Laneway Festival Singapore, which already made its run five times so far.
Tut tut, indie music scenesters. If the first ever Laneway Festival Singapore back in 2010 was dubbed Rainway Festival because of persistent wet weather, this year's edition could rightly be called Garbageway Festival due to the overwhelming amount of trash left behind by festival goers — and the Prime Minister himself is displeased.
In a Facebook post made earlier today PM Lee expressed his disappointment at the monumental amount of trash left behind — plastic ponchos, cigarette butts, plastic cups, picnic mats, etc — and compares it with a whole different scene during an AFF Suzuki Cup match where Myanmar sports fans cleaned up after themselves by picking up the litter left behind at the National Stadium.
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Post by Lee Hsien Loong.
"We need to progress from being a cleaned city to a truly clean city," he wrote. "All of us can play a part – picking up our own litter, educating our children and grandchildren, and reminding others to do the right thing."
This would probably mark the first time any government official commented on the annual Laneway Festival Singapore, which already made its run five times so far.