Vietnam responds to “Clean up the world” campaign

The Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, held a national launching ceremony in response to the “Clean up the world” campaign.
Vietnam responds to “Clean up the world” campaign ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, incollaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, held a national launching ceremony in response to the “Clean up the world” campaign.

The ceremony was concurrently held virtually in Hanoi, thenorthern provinces of Bac Giang and Thai Binh, and the central provinces ofThanh Hoa and Quang Nam.

The campaign was organised globally for the first time in1993. It has become one of the annual international environmental eventsresponded by hundreds of millions of people in more than 130 countries aroundthe world.

The campaign aims to call on organisations,businesses, individuals and the entire community to participate in activitiesto improve and protect the environment; collect, treat, and recycle waste; andrefuse to use disposable plastic products and hard-to-degrade plastic bags.

This year, the campaign focuses on conveying messages andraising public awareness of the meaning, role and responsibility ofenvironmental protection in socio-economic development; stepping up activitiesto promote environmental protection, sustainable development, disasterreduction and climate change adaptation in the “new normal”.

People can respond to the campaign through actions such assorting, recycling, reusing plastic waste, increasing environmental sanitation,and planting trees./.
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