‘Make the world cleaner’

Minister talks on anti-waste campaign for UN’s world eco-event

NATURAL resources and environment deputy ministry Vo Tuan Nhan talks to Tai nguyen via Moi truong, an online ministry newspaper about this year’s campaign to make the world cleaner

The campaign was initiated by Australia in 1993 and has been held annually worldwide by the United Nations Environment Programme in the third week of September.

The campaign has become an annual international environment event that draws the participation of hundreds of millions of people in more than 130 countries.

In response to the campaign, this year, the natural resources and environment ministry chooses the topic “Acting together to change the world” with the aim of mobilising organisations, businesses, individuals and the whole community to act together and join activities protecting the environment such as sorting, collecting, treating and recycling waste, and refusing to use disposable plastic products and hardto-degrade nylon bags.

However, in the context of the

Covid-19 pandemic, it is not necessary to have large gatherings on environment protection but each person can do simple actions such as planting trees and refusing single-use plastic products.

Protecting the environment in the current context is implementing the double goal of keeping our common house green and clean while preventing the disease effectively.

The ministry on Sep 10 issued a document to direct ministries, agencies, sectors, organisations and localities to organise activities in response to the campaign in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and based on the conditions of each locality.

They are urged to organise suitable communication activities such as hanging banners, panels, posters in public areas and workplaces.

Other activities include collecting and treating waste; solving urgent environmental problems in localities, agencies, schools, enterprises; and dredging canals, ponds, lakes, and drainage systems.