On the afternoon of April 4, Member of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Hue City People's Committee Nguyen Chi Tai had a working session with the Standing Committee of the Hue City Youth Union and the Department of Agriculture and Environment to evaluate the implementation results and discuss the direction of implementing the "Green Sunday" movement and handling black spots of waste in the city.

Member of the City Party Committee, Vice Chairman of Hue City People's Committee Nguyen Chi Tai chaired the meeting.

At the meeting, representatives of Hue City Youth Union informed about the results of implementing the "Green Sunday" movement in recent times.

Accordingly, by March 30, the whole city had organized more than 477 environmental sanitation launch points, attracting about 20,800 participants. Activities focused on general environmental sanitation, collecting garbage and construction solid waste, handling environmental black spots, planting and caring for trees, organizing the program "Exchanging garbage for gifts - creating a charity fund"...

The Standing Committee of the City Youth Union also advised the City People's Committee to organize a peak week to implement the program "Let's clean the sea" associated with the "Green Sunday" movement, towards the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025).

A typical example of the “Green Sunday” movement is the “Bringing trash to shore” model. When starting to implement the model, the units designed special mesh bags to contain trash, especially for fishermen. These bags help save space on the boat, are easy to fold when not containing trash, and are highly durable, suitable for the marine environment.

According to a representative of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the process is for fishermen to collect trash in net bags and bring it back to shore in exchange for necessities such as cooking oil, salt, MSG, soap, etc. This model not only helps reduce the amount of trash discharged into the sea but also motivates fishermen to change their trash disposal habits.

During the implementation period, many fishermen have formed the habit of collecting garbage instead of littering and building good habits in the community. Currently, about 500 small fishing boats have been equipped with this net bag.

Speaking at the meeting, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Chi Tai acknowledged and highly appreciated the pioneering and creative spirit of union members and young people in environmental protection and urban landscape construction. Mr. Nguyen Chi Tai emphasized the importance of strengthening propaganda and mobilizing the strong participation of the community, especially the Union bases, schools, businesses and local people so that the movement can spread more widely and sustainably.

According to Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Chi Tai, units and localities, based on the actual situation, mobilize forces to continue implementing the peak week of environmental sanitation; the model "Let's clean the sea" needs to be associated with the movement "Green Sunday", World Environment Day (June 23), ...

Hue City Youth Union Secretary Nguyen Thanh Hoai speaks at the meeting

In the coming time, in the spirit of "choosing practical work to implement" to bring the highest efficiency, specific products for each job. Along with that, there needs to be a monitoring mechanism, appropriate sanctions and regular inspections, avoiding the situation of following the trend without sustainability.

“Agencies and units coordinate and develop a plan to clean up the environment in markets across the city. First of all, select key areas with environmental pollution to implement weekly. Thereby, propagandize and mobilize people to change their trading habits and littering in the wrong places, gradually forming a civilized lifestyle, contributing to protecting the green - clean - beautiful environment in markets and public trading places,” Mr. Tai emphasized.

Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Chi Tai also requested the Standing Committee of the Hue City Youth Union to coordinate with press agencies to develop a specific, regular and continuous propaganda plan. At the same time, it is necessary to replicate effective models in some localities that have done well as well as actively disseminate information on social networking platforms such as Zalo, Facebook... to implement and attract people's participation.

In addition, localities need to coordinate closely with the Department of Agriculture and Environment to develop specific plans. In particular, identify key polluted areas for priority treatment; for black spots of waste, it is possible to mobilize military forces, police, youth union members, and environmental units to participate.

“After completely handling the black spots of waste, the units will hand them over to the local authorities for management. Local leaders must make a commitment and take responsibility before the city leaders for preserving the environment,” Vice Chairman of the City People’s Committee Nguyen Chi Tai emphasized.

Ngoc Nhi

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