Long An responds to World Environment Day (June 5) and Action Month for the Environment in 2025

In 2025, the People's Committee of Long An province assigned the Department of Agriculture and Environment to preside over and coordinate with the People's Committee of Can Giuoc district to organize provincial-level activities in response to World Environment Day (June 5) and the Month of Action for the Environment in 2025, taking place on June 5, 2025 in Can Giuoc district.

Activities in response to the event will be held simultaneously in districts, towns and cities across the province.

Leaders plant trees in response to World Environment Day 2024 (Photo: Thanh My)

The Provincial People's Committee requested localities, agencies and units to develop plans to implement contents and activities in response to World Environment Day (June 5) and Action Month for the Environment in 2025, ensuring practicality, effectiveness and suitability to the practical conditions of each locality and unit.

Implementation contents include: Comprehensive innovation in propaganda and dissemination of policies and laws on environmental protection; perfecting policies, promoting production and recycling of waste in an environmentally friendly direction; organizing a peak month of action for the environment in 2025 associated with the national campaign "Join hands to reduce plastic waste - Spreading a green lifestyle".

The focus is on organizing launching ceremonies, rallies and community forums/youth forums on environmental protection, integrating exhibitions of recycled products, circular economic models, green technology solutions; organizing policy dialogues between people - businesses - management agencies on solutions to reduce plastic pollution.

Launch a campaign to clean up the environment, collect and classify plastic waste at source in urban areas, rural areas, residential areas, schools, offices, rivers and lakes. Launch community models to collect - recycle - reuse disposable plastic, linked to retail systems, tourism , schools, offices and localities; select typical models to summarize - commend - replicate.

Deploy visual communication activities, simultaneously hang billboards, banners, posters on main roads, public places, agencies, schools, shopping centers, residential areas,... with messages responding to World Environment Day 2025.

World Environment Day June 5, 2025, launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with the theme "Fighting plastic pollution", aims to call on the global community to take drastic action to address plastic waste - one of the most urgent environmental challenges today.

This is the second time in three years (2023-2025) that the theme “Combating Plastic Pollution” has been chosen, clearly demonstrating the global priority in controlling plastic pollution; at the same time, reaffirming the commitment to effectively using resources, protecting biodiversity, enhancing adaptability, promoting innovation and strengthening regional-global cooperation, towards a circular economy and sustainable development.

According to a UNEP report, the world produces about 430 million tons of plastic each year, of which more than two-thirds are single-use products that quickly become waste, polluting the ocean; seriously affecting the ecosystem and human health.

In Vietnam, it is estimated that about 1.8 million tons of plastic waste is generated each year, but only about 27% is recycled, the rest is mostly buried or burned, causing waste of resources and posing many environmental risks.

The peak month of environmental action in 2025 will be implemented from the end of May to the end of June 2025, focusing on the national campaign "Join hands to reduce plastic waste - Spread green lifestyle", aiming to mobilize the whole society to participate in practical, diverse and widespread activities.

Accordingly, the province maintains propaganda work on preventing and combating plastic pollution, minimizing and reusing plastic waste, limiting the use of disposable plastic products and hard-to-decompose nylon bags. Diversify propaganda tools and methods; apply technology platforms and social networks to communicate the theme "Fighting plastic pollution" to create a spread and response from all classes of people.

The overarching goal is “Raising awareness - Changing behavior - Promoting action” towards a green lifestyle, sustainable consumption, contributing to controlling plastic pollution, protecting the environment, implementing climate commitments and sustainable development goals./.

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Source: https://baolongan.vn/long-an-huong-ung-ngay-moi-truong-the-gioi-05-6-va-thang-hanh-dong-vi-moi-truong-nam-2025-a196403.html