Thank you, Siyuan.

(press clicker) Today, I am going to talk about the detrimental

impacts of textile wastage. Im sure many of your in this room had thrown away
many textile products, be it clothing, or any other things made of textiles. However,
as you throw them away, have you ever wondered, what are the implications of your
actions?
As mentioned earlier by Siyuan, more and more textiles are being disposed of due to
the various causes addressed previously. (direct slide to audience)Take a look at
this slide, do any of your know what this island is? It is actually an aerial view of
Singapores one and only offshore landfill, Pulau Semakau. As the amount of textile
wastage increases, it had also caused the amount of textile waste transported to this
landfill to increase. Eventually, this phenomenon will occur (press clicker). (press
clicker) You may be wondering now, whats so bad about this phenomenon? Its not
my house anyway. Yes, it may not be your house, it may not have any effect on your
living environment currently, but YOUR constant disposal of textile will put a strain on
YOUR countrys financial resources as offshore landfills are expensive.(press
clicker) For all you may know, it costs $610 million to build Pulau Semekau! With the
high cost involved for its construction, it is no wonder that high maintenance fees
would also be needed in time to come, especially with the rising vast amount of
textile waste drowning this landfill. (press clicker)Having said this, we can see that
the cost of textile waste cannot be underestimated as the large amount of money
used in dealing with this waste can be channelled to other areas of development of
our country.
(press ticker)In the long run, resources used as raw materials for the manufacturing
of textiles will also be drained. (press clicker and direct them to slide at the same
time)These resources include, water, cotton, petroleum, and even human labour,
especially when more and more manpower are needed to produced more textiles to
replace the old ones that are discarded away. However, (press clicker) if we
continue to dispose textiles as and when we like, all these resources will be gone!
(press clicker) So whats left? NOTHING. Yes, absolutely NOTHING! These
precious, finite resources are valuable for our countrys sustainable development and
should be conserved whenever possible. (press ticker) Take the case of apparel
manufacturing for example, just an average shirt alone, its manufacturing process
wastes 700 gallons of water. And thats actually equivalent to 140 of these water jugs

you see here! (direct to slide). (press clicker)Imagine, if everyone of your in this
room were to recycle one T-shirt each, JUST ONE, thousands of gallons of water
would have been conserved! To sum it all up, textile wastage leads to the exhaustion
of resources. Do you want your country to face a shortage of resources in the near
future? I bet you dont.
(press clicker)So, we have to act fast, for there is an obvious and urgent need for
appropriate strategies to tackle these causes of wastage as waste is not waste, but
potential resources to be used again.(press ticker) With appropriate strategies, it
will help to effectively minimize textile waste as well as the detrimental economic and
environmental impacts it has on our society.
Now, Ill pass the time to Harsh, to elaborate on the first part of our strategies. Thank
You.