UnLitter Red Dot

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About UnLitter Red Dot: Clean and healthy living environments beyond the home

UnLitter Red Dot was created to nurture a culture and society that is more civic-minded and considerate. We believe that everyone has something to contribute and something to gain from creating neighbourhoods that are cleaner and healthier.

Littering continues to be a perennial issue year after year. Singapore may have started out as a clean garden city in the past, but increasingly it seems more accurate to call us a "cleaned" city. Despite having fines in place, our community spaces like void decks, playgrounds and carparks still seem to be littered with tissue paper, cigarette stubs and plastic bottles. We desire to see a country that takes ownership of its surroundings beyond the immediate home.

By volunteering in UnLitter, we seek to start new conversations with volunteers about what it means to care for one’s living space beyond the four corners of our homes. We want to groom a generation of compassionate citizens to step out and be the champions for change.

#DIDYOUKNOW

56,000 cleaners

help to clean up after our population of five million in Singapore.

In Taipei, there are only

5,000 cleaners

for their population of three million

“Tolerate litter and you'll tolerate anything.”

— Millard Fuller, late Founder of Habitat for Humanity

UnLitter Red Dot was partly inspired by Millard Fuller, our late founder, who believed that litter represented the worst of the community. The enigmatic leader was known to take ages to get from one place to another as he would stoop to pick up litter while he was walking.

Neighbourhood clean ups

Inculcating positive habits from young

Join us as an UnLitter Red Dot Volunteer!

What to expect:

Every session

UnLitter Red Dot sessions typically last for 2 hours. Within the 2 hours, volunteers will go through the following:
- Safety briefing
- Distribution of litter-picking supplies
- Actual litter-picking activity
- Weighing of trash collected
- Volunteer group photo
- De-brief
UnLitter Red Dot is a family-and-children friendly volunteering programme. We welcome children as young as kindergartners, accompanied by teachers or parents.
UnLitter Red Dot focuses on residential estates, especially rental flat neighbourhoods that need more help.

What will be provided

Before each session

Habitat Singapore carries out the necessary planning and coordination with various Town Councils to identify littering hot spots in estates and suspend cleaning shifts where possible.

Essential supplies provided to volunteers
- Litter-picking tongs
- Gloves
- Wet wipes
- Mosquite repellent
- Extra trash bags (only when necessary)

*Note: As part of our efforts to reduce plastic waste, all volunteers should come prepared with their own water bottles and plastic bags from home.

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Corporates, Schools & Social Groups

For Groups (Corporate / Schools / Social Groups)

UnLitter Red Dot sessions need to be booked 2 weeks in advance.
Maximum team size we can accomodate each session is 100 pax.
Email us at to request for available dates. In your email, please include details like your name, your organisation/school, group size, preferred date range and preferred location.

*Note: You can request for a neighbourhood that is convenient to your office or school.

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