Table 1.
Characteristics of central refuse chutes, individual refuse chute bin chambers and bin centres in Singapore, 2019 to 2020.
| Waste collection premises | CRCs (n = 5817) |
IRC bin chambers (n = 44,337) |
Bin centres (n = 796) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number (% of inspections) | |||
| Rodent sightings | 210 (0.7) | 524 (0.3) | 43 (1.4) |
| Rodent droppings | 4626 (16.1) | 2274 (1.3) | 887 (29.2) |
| Gnaw marks | 1211 (4.2) | 6590 (3.8) | 371 (12.2) |
| Rub marks | 2929 (10.2) | 407 (0.24) | 374 (2.3) |
| Mean (95% CIs) | |||
| Rodent burrows | 0.3 (0.30–0.31) | 0.57 (0.57–0.58) | 4.15 (4.07–4.22) |
| Restaurants | 0.56 (0.55–0.57) | 1.14 (1.13–1.14) | 0.40 (0.38–0.43) |
| No. of inspections | 4.95 (4.90–4.99) | 3.91 (3.89–3.92) | 3.81 (3.69–3.93) |