Saturday, October 24, 2020, in Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen Province, Dow Chemical Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Dow Vietnam) and the Centre for Supporting Green Development (GreenHub) collaborated with local government authorities to host a program "Communication and Education on Tackling Plastics Waste issue in Phu Yen." This program included a series of activities: beach clean-up and monitoring marine plastics waste, collecting coastal waste database and the contest of "Green School - Blue Sea" and taking commitment of “School Zero Waste” model.
The objective of these activities is to raise the awareness and educate knowledge about plastics waste through beach clean-up and marine waste monitoring event; coastal waste database collection; thereby proactively encourage the waste segregation, reuse, and recycle towards reducing waste at source for pupils in Boarding High School for Ethnic Minorities in Phu Yen Province.
The participants to the events include leaders of the Department of Education and Training, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Phu Yen province, leaders of the High School for Ethnic Minorities Boarding in Phu Yen province, the local Youth Union, volunteers, representatives from Dow Vietnam and GreenHub.
Mr. Ekkasit Lakkananithiphan, President of Dow Vietnam said, “Dow is strongly committed to ending plastics waste in the ocean by finding the innovative solutions to turn plastics waste into new applications, awareness enhancement and people’s behavior change for circular economy, plastics waste segregation, reuse and recycle. In order to make it happen, Dow has been closely collaborating with the government, local authorities and other related partners to organize many environmental protection events for all stakeholders to raise awareness and to find better solutions for environmental protection. We believe that if all waste is sorted, collected and recycled in the right way, the environment will be better."
The fact is that coastal waste is mostly sourced from the mainland due to rain, the waste flows with water into rivers and dumped into the sea. In addition, the coastal areas are also crowded with tourists that litter plastics waste. According to GreenHub's coastal waste statistics at 03 locations of Tuy Hoa, Dong Hoa and Tuy An, there are 2234 plastics pieces (most of them are flexible plastics bags) in Tuy An beach (Hon Yen) while Dong Hoa has 637 pieces of plastics and Tuy Hoa has 455 pieces. In addition, the results of the waste audit at Phu Yen High School for Ethnic Minorities also show that flexible plastics bags account for most of the plastics waste.
Ms. Tran Thi Hoa, Director of GreenHub said, “It’s our great pleasure to partner with Dow. Also, we highly appreciate the strong commitment of the leaders of Phu Yen province towards reducing the coastal waste, the enthusiastic support and close coordination of the local authorities with GreenHub to effectively implement activities and projects on monitoring and reducing marine waste. In order to raise awareness about waste reduction at source in an effective way, we prioritize the education programs for young people and students who are the most influencing group and have the most positive effects of behavior change in their family and to the whole society to contribute to environmental protection in Phu Yen province in particular and Vietnam in general."
In the afternoon of the same day, the final round of the contest "Green School - Blue Sea" also took place at the Boarding High School of Ethnic Minorities in Phu Yen Province. The theme of the contest is daily practices on waste reduction presented by 05 teams from environmental clubs at schools in Phu Yen province through the photos, videos, database, specific solutions and communication key message. As a result, the team of Luong Van Chanh High School was awarded the first prize for giving specific solutions to reduce waste, which are the people’s behavior change - a big impact on the environmental protection, and proposing 4Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Replace).
Also, on this occasion, Boarding High School for Ethnic Minorities in Phu Yen province and GreenHub signed the Memorandum of Understanding on a commitment to implement and maintain the model "School Zero Waste". In addition, Dow Vietnam also donated the supporting expense for Phu Yen Ethnic Minority Boarding High School to implement the program of waste segregation at school.
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