This year’s World Environment Day on June 5 focuses on prevention of plastic waste and recycling. Currently, Department of Natural Resources and Environment and its related units have promoted the preparation for the theme to bring up meaningful message to the community.
Lively dissemination
Representative of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment said that the purpose of this year's World Environment Day theme is to call on the community to work together to reduce the environmental pollution burden of plastic waste to natural environment for the health of the community. It is expected that the event will be organized by the province on June 3, to convey the meaning of environmental protection to social organizations, business community and people. Through this, people are called upon in many ways, limiting the pollution of plastic waste, actively raising awareness and taking actions to protect the environment, keeping environmental sanitation and urban beauty.
Students at the World Environment Day 2017. Photo: Phung Hieu
This year's World Environment Day held in the province includes an environmental class for elementary school students in Thuan An Town, Di An Town, and Thu Dau Mot City. The class will teach basic knowledge of environmental protection, plastic waste pollution to teachers, total responsibility for the teams of primary schools; Organizing the contest to create video clips for environmental protection propaganda, contestants are pupils, students and youth union members in the province.
This year's World Environment Day program was held at the campus of Thu Dau Mot University. According to the organizers of the ceremony, this year's target audience is students and students at high schools, colleges, universities, vocational schools should attract a lot of youth union members, youth participation.
Nguyen Hong Nguyen, Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment said that raising awareness of environmental protection in the community is very important. Therefore, propaganda measures in this year are very diverse, intuitive and lively. It is the students and students will make video clips about the harmful effects of plastic waste to the surrounding environment. Quality video clips will be selected by the organizers on the mass media, entertainment venues and mass-market shopping. In addition, the students also participate in drawing paintings raising awareness of environmental protection in the community.
Green enterprises encouraged to join
This year's World Environment Day held at Thu Dau Mot University is expected to attract more than 1,000 students and some enterprises who have made great efforts in environmental protection in the province. . At this time, there are nearly 20 universities, colleges, vocational schools ... in the area registered to attend. Each school will register a green food stall, Green Lifestyle. Organizing the ceremony encourages schools to use organic agricultural products, using environmentally friendly packaging. The organization also organizes folk games directly integrated with the content of environmental protection, experience in responding to climate change ...
In addition, the program "Green Sunday" will have the participation of the environmental protection shock team, the team will carry out picking up rubbish, water hyacinth, clear the flow in the canals on the site. Tieu Dau Mot Town, Thuan An Township and other localities in the province. Youth union members and local youths will strengthen propaganda activities by distributing leaflets, posting posters, promoting environmental protection ... from now until the World Environment Day (5-6). ).
At present, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment is calling on enterprises in industrial parks and industrial clusters to promote propaganda activities by hanging posters and posters in response to World Environment Day; To encourage enterprises to plant trees, clean the environment ... at their production establishments.
This year's World Environment Day has more meaning, the organizers are encouraging green businesses and enterprises to use modern technologies with less environmental damage and to use energy efficiently. , garbage production and recycling enterprises, etc. together with the Organizing Board so that the propaganda and raising public awareness on environmental protection can get the best results.
Reported by Xuan Vi – Translated by Vi Bao
