Hanoi was covered in thick fog in March.(Photo: Channel News Asia)
Hanoi (VNA) – Initiatives to protect the green planet towards asustainable development environment were introduced at a talk held by the Live& Learn Centre in collaboration with the French Cultural Centre (L’Espace)in Hanoi on August 19.
Director of the Live & Learn Centre Do Van Nguyet said that the talk washeld in the framework of the USAID’s Clean Air Green Cities project, aiming topromoting initiatives and solutions among children, youths, communities, andlocals impacted by air and environmental pollution in Hanoi.
Sharing his initiative to classify domestic waste, Nguyen Ba Hung, a studentfrom Alfred Nobel school, said that an average of 6,500 tonnes of rubbish aredumped every day, resulting in critical impacts to both environment andresidents’ health.
Rotting trash classification and treatment will help people live in harmonywith the environment, Hung explained.
Meanwhile, Le Phuong Tra, head of the Les Pas Vets Club, shared her eco-brickproduction project. She noticed that they are plastic bottles stuffed solidwith non-biological waste to create reusable building blocks, and this is oneof the effective ways to handle domestic waste.
In Guatemala, 116 schools have been built from eco-bricks since 2009 as part ofan inspirational and regenerative campaign against rubbish. All of the workshave shown high endurance, she said.
The forum served as a bridge to connect the youths who have made concertedefforts in concretising their initiatives to protect the environment, and makepositive impacts on the community.-VNA
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