(HNM) – In Ho Chi Minh City, the movement of “living green” to reduce waste and use environmentally friendly materials is developing widely and becoming more and more practical. In the coming time, the city will continue to mobilize people and businesses to actively participate in the movement.
Lots of practical work
On Sunday morning, Ms. Vu Thanh Thuy, who lives at Street 1, Thao Dien ward, Thu Duc city, with her children, brought bags of plastic products and packaging waste to the ward's "Exchange plastic waste and receive gifts" point so that the collectors could collect them. recycling center. This is also a regular activity of local people.
"We received trees, environmental protection propaganda materials, and the community wants to spread this spirit to the younger generation so that they have a sense of environmental protection," Ms. Thuy confided.
In just one day to respond to World Environment Day (June 5), more than 6 turns of people in neighborhood 211, Thao Dien ward, together collected more than 5kg of waste paper, 90 bottles, cans and plastic containers of all kinds. The Organizing Committee gave more than 1.317 succulents, 100 cloth bags, 200 keychains and more than 200kg of sugar to people who brought garbage to exchange gifts. This is also the part that is regularly implemented by the government of Pham Van Hai commune (Binh Chanh district).
Mrs. Nguyen Thi Giau, Chairman of Pham Van Hai Commune People's Committee, said that the commune also organizes a contest "Recycling for the environment", to spread the positive message of participating in recycling activities, building green spaces at home. family, public places and say no to plastic waste, contributing to environmental protection.
On a city-wide scale, the Standing Board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in Ho Chi Minh City has coordinated with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to hold a ceremony to summarize and award prizes for the contest to build clean - green buildings - Community-based environment-friendly for the 2nd time - 2023. Accordingly, after more than 3 months of implementation, 21 districts and Thu Duc city have actively responded in many rich and diverse forms. ; there are 555 clean - green - environmentally friendly works of 379 district-level units, districts and Thu Duc city.
According to Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Toan Thang, the city is maintaining 1.920 points, clean - green - environmentally friendly buildings. The parties will continue to coordinate to organize many environmental protection activities to mobilize social resources, mobilize people and communities to participate in transforming polluted areas into community living areas. field, children's play area, vegetable garden, flower garden; join hands in decorating to create a green space, contributing to building a clean - green - environmentally friendly city.
Maintain real, long-lasting results
Implement the "National strategy on green growth towards sustainable development in Ho Chi Minh City in the period of 2021-2030" issued by the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon Liberation Newspaper and Union of Union. Ho Chi Minh City Commercial Cooperative (Saigon Co.op) has just organized the 14th Green Consumption Campaign, implemented in June 6. This is the annual work of the two units.
According to Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Saigon Liberation Newspaper Pham Van Truong, the goal of the campaign is to mobilize the community to prioritize using products of businesses that do well in environmental protection. From there, establish new consumption habits that are beneficial to the environment. As for Deputy General Director of Saigon Co.op Le Truong Son, Saigon Co.op's supermarket systems arrange separate display areas for environmentally friendly products and products of businesses that perform well. environmental protection.
“For a long time, we have removed plastic straws and many single-use plastic products from our sales list. 100% of supermarkets and retail stores use self-destructing bags to store goods for customers, contributing to raising awareness of green economy, circular economy, towards sustainable economic development in the community. Mr. Le Truong Son added.
Mondelez Kinh Do Company Limited (Ho Chi Minh City) is one of the enterprises specializing in food. To date, more than 97% of Mondelez Kinh Do's total packaging, including plastic and other materials, is recyclable and reusable. Enterprises are accelerating to reach 100% of the global target sooner by 2025.
General Director of Mondelez Kinh Do Vietnam Anil Viswanathan said that the business is converting the power consumed for production to renewable energy sources at the production plants; replacing thermal fuels with “green” alternative fuel sources; Implement programs to reduce waste water and food waste throughout the supply chain…
“Consumer habits also greatly influence the direction of enterprises to develop environmentally friendly packaging products. We find that Vietnamese consumers often prefer colorful and eye-catching packaging when used as gifts on holidays and Tet. However, such packages require more chemicals to print, use plastic film to cover… and will be more difficult to recycle. Currently, modern consumer trends are encouraging the development of simple, easy-to-recycle packaging. Hopefully we will soon have a common understanding on this issue,” Mr. Anil Viswanathan shared.
