Burnt grass patches around neighbourhoods are a common sight during the seventh lunar month, and landscaping companies say they increase the workload by at least 10 per cent in terms of man hours to re-turf these patches for town councils.
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SINGAPORE: Burnt grass patches around neighbourhoods are a common sight during the seventh lunar month, and landscaping companies say they increase the workload by at least 10 per cent in terms of man hours to re-turf these patches for town councils.
These landscaping companies need to have an extra pair of hands to tide them over the month.
Work includes having to replace soil and plant new grass to turf over the patches, which take about a week to fix.
Meanwhile, Monday’s haze scare has prompted a temple to put in place contingency plans to control air quality.
It has put up banners to encourage people to burn less paper offerings, and discourage them from burning plastic bags that hold these offerings.
Cho Peng Weng, Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery’s project manager, said: “Normally, what we’d do is that we’ll stop for a while, basically, until the haze condition gets better. Then only will we continue with the burning.
“We’ll stop, maybe, for an hour. If after stopping for an hour, it’s still bad, we’ll still continue to stop maybe for another half hour or so, then we continue with the burning.”
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