Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Viet Dung - Director of the Center for Communication on Natural Resources and Environment of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said that environmental pollution is one of the urgent issues today, this situation threatens the biodiversity system, climate change and causes many other consequences that people have to bear. Especially for plastic waste and environmental pollutants are negatively affecting the environment. This is closely related to economic development and social stability.
Over the years, Vietnam has been implementing many mechanisms, strategies, policies and projects to reduce plastic waste and protect the environment. Recognizing the urgent need to protect the environment through classifying domestic solid waste at source, the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 has devoted 6 articles to clearly stipulate the classification, storage, transfer; Collection and transportation costs; Pollution treatment, environmental improvement of domestic solid waste landfills (CTRSH) and has stipulated that domestic solid waste generated from households and individuals is divided into 3 types: Solid waste that can be reused and recycled; Food waste; Other CTRSH.
The classification of domestic solid waste at the source plays an extremely important role in reducing waste treatment costs. The Law on Environmental Protection and documents guiding the implementation of the Law have stipulated the classification and sanctions for non-classification of domestic solid waste with the aim of building and developing a green, civilized and sustainable lifestyle in the circular economic chain that cannot be separated from waste classification.
With the desire to join hands to preserve and protect the environment, the Center for Communication of Natural Resources and Environment - Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Toyota Vietnam Automobile Company organized the Launching Ceremony of the Program "Toyota Vietnam Responds to the Month of Action for the Environment - Towards Green Transformation in 2023" to implement many large-scale social contribution activities and educate the community about environmental protection, contributing to raising awareness and responsibility for environmental protection, classifying waste at source, creating conditions for students, students, and people to proactively participate and contribute positively to the cause of environmental protection.
Mr. Nakano Keita - General Director of Toyota Vietnam Automobile Company said that during nearly 30 years of presence in Vietnam, Toyota has always strived to be a green brand with the mission of "Creating happiness for everyone", in which environmental protection is the top priority of the Company. Toyota has been pursuing a strategy of developing multi-dimensional approaches to reduce the impact of CO2 emissions and aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050 through implementing environmental protection activities such as planting 8,600 trees at 77 schools nationwide in the program "Toyota joins hands to green schools"; "The second journey of tires" has donated 9 playgrounds built from recycled tires to students in 6 provinces and cities. In addition, Toyota also accompanies the Government in a number of programs such as "Tet tree planting festival forever grateful to Uncle Ho" and "One billion trees - For a green Vietnam".
At the launching ceremony of the program "Toyota responds to the month of action for the environment towards green transformation in 2023", Mr. Nakano Keita hopes that the program will contribute to raising awareness about waste classification and treatment as well as encouraging people in Xuan Hoa - Vinh Phuc to actively participate in environmental protection activities, thereby joining hands to preserve a green - clean - beautiful living environment for both today's and future generations.
At the launching ceremony, in order to contribute to environmental protection and raise awareness of waste collection and classification at source for the community, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Toyota Vietnam Automobile Company presented waste classification bins to representatives of Phuc Yen City, Xuan Hoa Ward People's Committee to households, villages and communes where waste is collected.
Mr. Dinh Quang Trung - Vice Chairman of Xuan Hoa Ward People's Committee thanked the very practical and meaningful activities of the Center for Communication of Natural Resources and Environment - Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Toyota Vietnam Company through the program "Toyota responds to the month of action for the environment towards green transformation in 2023". Recognizing the importance of environmental protection, in recent years, Xuan Hoa Ward People's Committee has paid attention to directing residential groups (TDP), agencies and organizations to promote propaganda activities, mobilizing people to participate in environmental protection activities.
At the same time, implementing a civilized urban lifestyle, effectively participating in the "Green Sunday" movement with specific practical activities such as painting murals, planting flower streets, etc. The residential groups in the area have deployed the construction of 12 bright, green, clean and beautiful streets, building self-managed streets on the environment, maintaining environmental sanitation, sorting waste at source, rationally using resources and the environment... contributing to reducing the total amount of waste in the community discharged into the environment, saving costs for collection, transportation and waste treatment. Through the Launching Ceremony, Mr. Quang Trung hopes that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, agencies and units will continue to support and pay more attention to environmental protection work in Xuan Hoa ward in particular and in Vinh Phuc province in general.
Thereby, the People's Committee of Xuan Hoa ward carried out the activity of collecting and classifying waste on Pham Van Dong street, Xuan Hoa ward for local people to collect and classify waste at the source.
Here are some photos from the Launching Ceremony of the Program "Toyota responds to the month of action for the environment towards green transformation in 2023":
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