Cleaning of Public Areas

Recreational public beaches such as Changi, East Coast Beach, and others are maintained by DPC’s cleaning service providers. The cleaning of the beaches is carried out during low tides and is subject to weather conditions.

Singapore's climate is characterised by two monsoon seasons separated by inter-monsoonal periods. The Northeast Monsoon occurs from December to March, and the Southwest Monsoon from June to September. (Recreational beaches and shoreline cleaning schedule below)

During the Northeast and Southwest monsoon seasons, the monsoon winds bring in large amounts of flotsam (i.e debris) from transboundary sources, which are washed onto the beaches.

In response to this, the frequency of cleaning by NEA service providers are stepped up during these periods.

Reference for tide timings
​https://www.nea.gov.sg/weather/tide-timings

NEA engages three service providers to clean the public areas it is responsible for. The contact information, regions, and cleaning services provided by our service providers can be found in the table below.

Public cleaning is very manpower intensive. In Singapore’s ever-tightening manpower landscape, the current manual mode of public cleaning is not sustainable in the long term. NEA works closely with its cleaning service providers (SP) as well as the community to find ways to improve cleaning productivity and efficiency and shift away from manual mode of cleaning. In the cleaning of private estates, vehicles parked by the roadside is a major obstruction to the safe operation of mechanical road sweepers and they also obstruct the cleaners cleaning the roadsides.

To enable the deployment of mechanical road sweepers to clean the estates effectively, NEA introduce the Alternate Roadside Parking programme as a trial since 2019 at selected estates, whereby we work closely with the grassroots and local community to park their vehicles on one side of the road on the day and time when the other side of the road is being cleaned. Signages are installed on lampposts in the estates to remind residents of the cleaning days and the side of the road that they can park their vehicles on those days. Information pamphlets are also distributed prior to the residents so that they can adjust their parking arrangement accordingly. 

As at Dec 2024, 33 private estates had participated in the trial and showed good response and support for the programme. The cleanliness levels of these estates had also improved with the better cleaning coverage.

If your estate wishes to participate in the programme, please contact NEA Division of Public Cleanliness (DPC)

Mr Madhavan Sridhar            Madhavan_Sridhar@nea.gov.sg
Mr Aaron Low                         Aaron_Low@nea.gov.sg
Mr Alex Lee                             Alex_Lee@nea.gov.sg

List of estates that participated in the programme